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10,400 | 3,588 | A randomized comparison of manipulation of the fractured nose under local and general anaesthesia.
Reduction of simple nasal fractures may be performed under local or general anaesthesia: the latter is by far the most popular method in Britain, though why is hard to define.
We have attempted to compare the 2 approach... | C10 |
10,401 | 3,175 | Cardiac arrhythmias from a malpositioned Greenfield filter in a traumatic quadriplegic.
A case study is presented of premature Greenfield filter discharge with intracardiac migration and resulting life-threatening arrhythmias.
These arrhythmias also interfered with the patient's transition from ventilatory support vi... | C10 |
10,402 | 2,077 | Hematoma of the optic nerve sheath after penetrating trauma.
We have presented a case involving the diagnosis and management of optic nerve sheath hematoma.
Our patient's positive outcome demonstrates the usefulness of megadose steroid therapy for acute optic nerve injury. | C10 |
10,403 | 2,072 | Dementia: what to do.
Dementia is a syndrome of acquired intellectual deterioration that interferes with personal or social functioning.
Diagnosis requires historical information from the family and the mental status evaluation of orientation, recent memory, comprehension, calculation, and abstraction.
Most dementia... | C10 |
10,404 | 748 | The management of the painful first metatarsophalangeal joint in the older patient. Arthrodesis or Keller's arthroplasty?
We report a prospective randomised trial comparing Keller's arthroplasty and arthrodesis of the first metatarsophalangeal joint for the management of symptomatic hallux valgus and hallux rigidus in... | C10 |
10,405 | 7,920 | Lateralized effects of subclinical epileptiform EEG discharges on scholastic performance in children.
The interaction between lateralization of subclinical epileptiform discharges and cognitive tasks was investigated in 21 children (12 girls and 9 boys, mean age 10.6 years).
Seventeen had a diagnosis of epilepsy (par... | C10 |
10,406 | 4,831 | Clinoidal meningiomas.
Anterior clinoidal meningiomas are frequently grouped with suprasellar or sphenoid ridge meningiomas, masking their notorious association with a high mortality and morbidity rate, failure of total removal, and recurrence.
To avoid injury to encased cerebral vessels, most surgeons are content wi... | C10 |
10,407 | 8,649 | Endocrine function and morphological findings in patients with disorders of the hypothalamo-pituitary area: a study with magnetic resonance.
Evaluation of the sellar area was performed with magnetic resonance imaging in 101 patients (age range 0.8-27 years) with hypopituitarism, isolated diabetes insipidus, hypogonado... | C10 |
10,408 | 9,836 | Blepharospasm-oromandibular dystonia associated with a left cerebellopontine angle meningioma.
Blepharospasm-oromandibular dystonia is characterized by the presence of spasms of the orbicularis oculi (blepharospasm) and of the lower facial or oromandibular muscles.
A patient with this syndrome is presented in which a... | C10 |
10,409 | 6,601 | Autonomic dysfunction and Guillain-Barre syndrome. The use of esmolol in its management.
A 17-year-old girl with Guillain-Barre syndrome and autonomic dysfunction was treated successfully with esmolol.
Esmolol may be an appropriate drug for the rapid assessment and control of tachyarrhythmias in critically ill patien... | C10 |
10,410 | 6,112 | Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates that electric stimulation of cerebellar fastigial nucleus reduces cerebral infarction in rats.
We sought to determine whether high spatial resolution magnetic resonance imaging is useful for noninvasive quantitation of the ischemic infarct produced by occlusion of the middle cer... | C10 |
10,411 | 4,262 | Clonal origin of pituitary adenomas.
As the pathogenesis of pituitary adenomas remains unclear, the tumor clonal composition of these common neoplasms was studied.
Clonality was determined in female patients by analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphisms of the X-chromosome genes hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl... | C10 |
10,412 | 6,006 | Tamoxifen therapy for painful idiopathic gynecomastia.
We have evaluated the efficacy of the antiestrogen tamoxifen in six men with painful idiopathic gynecomastia.
Subjects were given either tamoxifen or placebo for 2 to 4 months and then were given the other agent for an identical period.
Breast size was considere... | C10 |
10,413 | 7,020 | Nontropical pyomyositis as a cause of subacute, multifocal myalgia in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
We report a case of nontropical pyomyositis in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and disseminated Mycobacterium avium infection, in which severe myalgia was the presenting symptom over several ... | C10 |
10,414 | 7,758 | The distribution of muscle weakness in upper motoneuron lesions affecting the lower limb.
To determine the distribution of weakness in the lower limb after upper motoneuron lesions the strength of 8 muscle groups was measured.
Four groups of patients were studied: 22 control subjects, 16 patients with unilateral leg ... | C10 |
10,415 | 7,914 | Lack of change in neurochemical markers during the postepileptic phase of intrahippocampal tetanus toxin syndrome in rats.
The chronic epileptic syndrome induced by injecting tetanus toxin into rat hippocampus causes functional changes that essentially are permanent, outlasting the period of active seizures by at leas... | C10 |
10,416 | 2,156 | Naloxone and spinal fluid drainage as adjuncts in the surgical treatment of thoracoabdominal and thoracic aneurysms.
Forty-seven patients who were treated for thoracoabdominal or thoracic aneurysms over a 5 1/2-year period were analyzed for neurologic deficit risk.
Patients were divided into two groups for analysis.
... | C10 |
10,417 | 4,778 | Headaches and multiple sclerosis: a clinical study and review of the literature.
Whether multiple sclerosis (MS) can cause headaches is controversial.
To clarify the association between headaches and MS we prospectively analyzed 104 consecutive MS patients using detailed headache evaluations.
Fifty-four patients (52... | C10 |
10,418 | 5,453 | Cyst of the choroid plexus in the lateral ventricle: case report and review of the literature.
We report an intraventricular cyst in a 2-year-old boy who had myoclonic jerks of the extremities.
The cyst had no communication with the ventricular system or subarachnoid space.
Total removal of the cyst adhering to the ... | C10 |
10,419 | 441 | Scintigraphic measurement of oropharyngeal transit in man.
Scintigraphic studies of the oropharyngeal transit of a liquid bolus were performed in 15 healthy controls, 12 patients with symptoms of oral-pharyngeal dysphagia, and 13 patients with neuromuscular disease, who did not have dysphagia.
Gamma camera imaging of... | C10 |
10,420 | 7,113 | Choroid plexus cysts and chromosomal defects
During a 4-year period, 83 pregnant women with fetal choroid plexus cysts were investigated in our unit.
Abnormal karyotypes were found in 20 fetuses, including trisomy 18 (n = 16), trisomy 13 (n = 1), triploidy (n = 1) and translocation Down's syndrome (n = 2).
All fetu... | C10 |
10,421 | 6,609 | An evaluation of a 30-gauge needle for spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section.
A 30-gauge spinal needle was evaluated for Caesarean section, using a combined epidural/spinal technique, in 50 mothers.
Spinal anaesthesia failed in six mothers and was inadequate in another six.
General anaesthesia was required on one... | C10 |
10,422 | 2,765 | A comparative trial of three agents in the treatment of acute migraine headache.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: A study was conducted to evaluate the relative efficacy of three non-narcotic agents, chloropromazine, lidocaine, and dihydroergotamine, in the treatment of migraine headache in an emergency department setting.
DESIGN: ... | C10 |
10,423 | 7,227 | Acupuncture and chronic pain: a criteria-based meta-analysis.
A literature search revealed 51 controlled clinical studies on the effectiveness of acupuncture in chronic pain.
These studies were reviewed using a list of 18 predefined methodological criteria.
A maximum of 100 points for study design could be earned in... | C10 |
10,424 | 5,500 | Anti-GM1 IgM antibodies in motor neuron disease and neuropathy.
We found anti-GM1 IgM antibodies in 23% of 56 patients with motor neuron disease (MND), in 19% of 69 patients with neuropathy, and in 7% of 107 controls with other neurologic and nonneurologic diseases.
Most of these patients had anti-GM1 IgM antibody ti... | C10 |
10,425 | 738 | The Hastings bipolar hemiarthroplasty for subcapital fractures of the femoral neck. A 10-year prospective study.
In a 10-year prospective study, 561 displaced subcapital fractures of the femoral neck in 546 patients were treated with the Hastings bipolar hemiarthroplasty.
Within six months of their operations, 148 pa... | C10 |
10,426 | 5,474 | Clinicopathological experience with pineocytomas: report of five surgically treated cases.
The clinicopathological experience associated with five cases of pineocytoma is presented.
All patients were treated by surgical removal without postoperative radiotherapy.
In three individuals, 2000 cGy was administered to th... | C10 |
10,427 | 6,083 | Surgical experience with cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy can present as lobar intracerebral hemorrhage in an elderly person, presumably due to increased fragility of the vessels affected by amyloid deposition.
For this reason, patients presenting with intracerebral hemorrhage and suspected of... | C10 |
10,428 | 5,269 | National General Practice Study of Epilepsy: recurrence after a first seizure
In the National General Practice Study of Epilepsy 564 patients classified as having definite seizures have been followed up for 2-4 years.
67% (95% confidence interval 63-71%) had a recurrence within 12 months of the first seizure, and 78... | C10 |
10,429 | 3,318 | Lesions of the mid-shaft of the humerus presenting as shoulder capsulitis.
We describe three patients who presented with pain and restriction of movement at the shoulder suggestive of capsulitis, but proved to have lesions of the mid-shaft of the humerus.
It is important to be aware of the possibility of this cause o... | C10 |
10,430 | 4,489 | Reference values for the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in octo- and nonagenarians
The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) was used in a population survey of all inhabitants of Leiden, the Netherlands, over 85 years (n = 1258).
In this paper we report on 532 subjects without neurological or psychiatric diseas... | C10 |
10,431 | 6,916 | Syncope and presyncope associated with probable adverse drug reactions.
The purpose of this study was to determine whether syncope and presyncope were associated with drug therapy in 70 patients referred to a tertiary care ambulatory clinic.
Drug use information was obtained, validated, and classified by its potentia... | C10 |
10,432 | 7,749 | Myelopathy associated with human T cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) in natal, South Africa. A clinical and investigative study in 24 patients.
Unexplained spastic myelopathy in black (Zulu) patients, similar to that seen in the tropics, has previously been described from Natal, South Africa.
Following reports ... | C10 |
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