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9,200 | 4,310 | Value of monoclonal anti-myeloperoxidase (MPO7) for diagnosing acute leukaemia.
The expression of myeloperoxidase (MPO) was studied in 100 cases of acute leukaemia (83 with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and 17 acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) by both a conventional cytochemical method and the immunocytochemical ant... | C04 |
9,201 | 5,515 | A randomized trial comparing two methods of cold knife conization with laser conization.
In a randomized study, 62 women were submitted to cold knife conization with application of Sturmdorf sutures, 60 to cold knife conization without sutures, and 61 to laser conization.
Early hemorrhage occurred in 1.6, 13.3, and 6... | C04 |
9,202 | 5,215 | Adenocarcinoma arising in Barrett's esophagus.
A review of nine adenocarcinomas of the esophagus arising in Barrett's epithelium was undertaken.
We found the disease among white males disproportionately.
Risk factors and incidence rate remain to be clarified.
Only one patient was in a surveillance program and only ... | C04 |
9,203 | 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... | C04 |
9,204 | 8,808 | Cancer antigen 125, carcinoembryonic antigen, and carbohydrate determinant 19-9 in ovarian tumors.
The authors studied data of combination assays of tumor markers, because simultaneous elevation of different types of tumor markers in the serum was puzzling.
They interpreted such phenomena regarding cancer antigen 125... | C04 |
9,205 | 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... | C04 |
9,206 | 8,477 | Management of Cushing's syndrome secondary to adrenal adenoma during pregnancy.
This report discusses our experience with two patients who had unilateral adrenalectomy during pregnancy as treatment for Cushing's syndrome secondary to an adrenal adenoma.
Previously only five patients with this clinical problem who und... | C04 |
9,207 | 4,579 | Regional and systemic distribution of anti-tumor x anti-CD3 heteroaggregate antibodies and cultured human peripheral blood lymphocytes in a human colon cancer xenograft.
Anti-tumor antibody (317G5) covalently coupled to an anti-CD3 antibody (OKT3) produces a heteroaggregate (HA) antibody that can target PBL to lyse tu... | C04 |
9,208 | 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... | C04 |
9,209 | 91 | Biology and clinical significance of cytogenetic abnormalities in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Virtually all cases of childhood ALL have chromosomal abnormalities and half contain translocations, which are nearly equally divided between random and nonrandom rearrangements.
Nonrandom chromosomal abnormaliti... | C04 |
9,210 | 4,320 | Cutaneous manifestations of postthymic T cell malignancies: description of five clinicopathologic subtypes.
This study was undertaken to identify the cutaneous manifestations among different prognostic subgroups of postthymic T cell malignancies.
Cutaneous involvement was demonstrated in 43 of 88 cases.
We recognize... | C04 |
9,211 | 8,507 | Are three substages of clinical B prostate carcinoma useful in predicting disease-free survival?
The B1 nodule, a 1.5 cm area of induration surrounded on at least two sides by prostatic tissue of normal consistency, was defined by Jewett in 1968 as the stage of prostatic cancer best suited for treatment and cure by ra... | C04 |
9,212 | 5,079 | Nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma with venous involvement.
A nephron-sparing operation recently has been shown to provide extended survival free of disease in selected patients with localized renal cell carcinoma, particularly for tumors of lower stage.
To define better the role of conservative surgica... | C04 |
9,213 | 6,336 | Granular cell tumor of the esophagus: endoscopic ultrasonographic demonstration and endoscopic removal.
A 35-yr-old Japanese man with a granular cell tumor of the esophagus that was removed by endoscopic polypectomy is presented.
Radiography and endoscopy showed a 20 x 12 mm sessile protrusion in the distal esophagus... | C04 |
9,214 | 7,503 | Biopsy of the breast for mammographically detected lesions.
We prospectively studied 718 women who underwent biopsy of the breast for suspicious, mammographically detected mammary lesions in an attempt to identify key clinical risk factors, as well as roentgenographic characteristics associated with the appearance of ... | C04 |
9,215 | 3,387 | Cell lineage markers in human pancreatic cancer.
The normal pancreas consists of three major cell types or lineages that share a common embryologic origin from pluripotent endodermal precursors.
The type of cell that undergoes neoplastic transformation to form a pancreatic carcinoma is controversial and may influence... | C04 |
9,216 | 7,048 | Photodynamic therapy with chloroaluminum-sulfonated phthalocyanine.
To study the vascular effects of a new photosensitizing agent independent of the influence of tumor growth, a cutaneous wound model was used.
Six-week-old Harlan-Sprague-Dawley "Fuzzy" rats were surgically wounded in a standard fashion.
The animals ... | C04 |
9,217 | 8,793 | A standard dose of radiation for "microscopic disease" is not appropriate.
Elective irradiation of sites of potential occult tumor spread is often part of a patient's radiation therapy program.
The required radiation dose (D) depends on the probability that occult disease exists (P(occ)), the number of sites at risk ... | C04 |
9,218 | 6,760 | Tumor cell lines established in vitro: an independent prognostic factor for survival in non-small-cell lung cancer.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the relation between in-vitro establishment of tumor cell lines and survival in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer.
DESIGN: Cohort study.
SETTING: Single-institution terti... | C04 |
9,219 | 7,023 | Molecular phenotype of a pediatric small round cell tumor.
Molecular probes were used to characterize an unusual small round cell abdominal tumor arising from the fallopian tube of a 15-year-old girl.
DNA and RNA extracted from the tumor and adjacent normal tissue was subjected to Southern and Northern blot analysis ... | C04 |
9,220 | 8,892 | Rapid inactivation and phosphorylation of pyroglutamyl peptidase II in Y-79 human retinoblastoma cells after exposure to phorbol ester.
Pyroglutamyl peptidase II (EC 3.4.19.-), a membrane-bound metalloproteinase, is a highly specific TRH-degrading enzyme.
Exposure of Y-79 human retinoblastoma cells to 12-0-tetradecan... | C04 |
9,221 | 6,479 | Coexpression patterns of vimentin and glial filament protein with cytokeratins in the normal, hyperplastic, and neoplastic breast.
The authors studied by immunohistochemistry the intermediate filament (IF) protein profile of 66 frozen samples of breast tissue, including normal parenchyma, all variants of fibrocystic d... | C04 |
9,222 | 6,704 | Frequency and clinical implications of monoclonal antibody detection of tumor-associated antigens in serum of patients with lung cancer.
We previously showed that a panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAb) (5E8, 5C7, and 1F10) that detect serum tumor-associated antigens (TAA) could distinguish patients with lung cancer fr... | C04 |
9,223 | 8,488 | Intraatrial extension of thyroid cancer: technique and results of a radical surgical approach.
An occlusion of the superior vena cava by a tumor thrombus extending into the right atrium was diagnosed in three patients with a follicular thyroid cancer.
All patients showed the typical clinical picture of the superior v... | C04 |
9,224 | 5,100 | Total pelvic exenteration with simultaneous bowel and urinary reconstruction.
The technique of total pelvic exenteration with simultaneous bowel and urinary reconstruction is described as a surgical option for the management of pelvic sarcoma in adults and for highly selected patients with other types of advanced pelv... | C04 |
9,225 | 2,137 | Short-term tamoxifen plus chemotherapy: superior results in node-positive breast cancer.
Three hundred eleven patients with node-positive breast cancer were randomized to one of three adjuvant treatments: cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan), methotrexate, and 5-fluorouracil; all of the above with tamoxifen citrate; or all of t... | C04 |
9,226 | 8,472 | Function in athymic nude mice of parathyroid heterografts from patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and secondary hyperparathyroidism.
Heterotransplantation of adenomatous parathyroid glandular tissue from humans with primary hyperparathyroidism into athymic nude mice creates a unique animal model of this disease... | C04 |
9,227 | 427 | Relationship between blood plasma prostaglandin E2 and liver and lung metastases in colorectal cancer.
The relationship of prostaglandin E2, of which a large amount is produced in various neoplasms, and hematogenous distant metastases was investigated in a total of 44 colorectal cancer patients because of its varied p... | C04 |
9,228 | 2,744 | A hepatocellular carcinoma of massive arterioportal shunts without tumor stain treated with CDDP two-route chemotherapy--a case report.
Massive arterioportal shunts without tumor vessels or tumor stain are sometimes encountered in advanced cases of liver cirrhosis.
Massive arterioportal shunts without tumor stain tha... | C04 |
9,229 | 912 | Proliferative mass found in the gingiva.
The clinical course of peripheral ossifying fibroma is slow and the growth of most lesions is limited in size, usually up to 1.5 cm.
Complaints are rare unless the surface becomes ulcerated, or the lesion compromises oral function or esthetic appearance.
Treatment is surgical... | C04 |
9,230 | 23 | Abnormal differentiation of human papillomavirus-induced laryngeal papillomas.
We studied the proliferation and differentiation of human laryngeal papillomas, which are benign tumors induced by human papillomaviruses.
Immunofluorescent stains of tissues for a number of differentiation-specific proteins showed abnorma... | C04 |
9,231 | 8,489 | The intraoperative incidence of detectable bilateral and multicentric disease in papillary cancer of the thyroid.
This is a prospective study to determine the incidence of grossly detectable multicentric and bilateral cancer at operation in patients who, before surgery, were believed to have a unilateral lesion.
The ... | C04 |
9,232 | 7,479 | Mixed form, diffusely scattered calcifications in breast cancer with apocrine features
Diffusely scattered calcifications visible with mammography are almost always benign.
Certain patterns, however, should arouse concern.
For example, extensive comedocarcinoma is associated with large areas of mammographically vis... | C04 |
9,233 | 9,360 | Bilateral familial carotid body paragangliomas. Report of a case with DNA flow cytometric and cytogenetic analyses.
A case study of bilateral familial carotid body paragangliomas with DNA flow cytometric and cytogenetic analyses is presented.
Analysis of tumor cell nuclear DNA content by flow cytometry revealed aneup... | C04 |
9,234 | 2,133 | Neonatal intracranial teratomas.
Two neonates with intracranial teratomas presented with cranial enlargements a few weeks after birth.
Both cases underwent surgery: one died intraoperatively; the other is the longest known survivor, alive 7 years and 9 months after subtotal excision of a mature teratoma of the left s... | C04 |
9,235 | 5,437 | Inhibition of tumor growth in a glioma model treated with boron neutron capture therapy.
This investigation attempts to determine whether increased survival time seen when the F98 glioma model is treated with boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a result of inhibition of tumor growth caused by radiation-induced alt... | C04 |
9,236 | 3,424 | Characterization of epidermal growth factor receptor in normal and neoplastic human endometrium.
Growth factors, including epidermal growth factor (EGF), have been implicated in the growth of several types of cancer.
This study compares EGF receptors in normal and neoplastic endometrium.
Membrane fractions were isol... | C04 |
9,237 | 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... | C04 |
9,238 | 6,468 | Increase of beta 1-6-branched oligosaccharides in human esophageal carcinomas invasive against surrounding tissue in vivo and in vitro.
The -GlcNAc beta 1-6Man- (beta 1-6) branched N-glycosidic oligosaccharides expressed on tumor cells have been found to contribute to malignant and metastatic potential in experimental... | C04 |
9,239 | 5,059 | De novo carcinoma of the lower urinary tract in renal allograft recipients.
Immunocompetence has been postulated as an important defense against the progression of urothelial carcinoma.
Three cases of de novo lower urinary tract carcinoma in renal transplant recipients demonstrated the potential for unusually rapid u... | C04 |
9,240 | 8,524 | Testicular calcifications and neoplasia in patient treated for subfertility.
A subfertile male with a history of left cryptorchism underwent scrotal ultrasound that revealed stippled calcifications, without associated mass, in the right testicle.
Six months later, while on a regimen of clomiphene citrate, a testicula... | C04 |
9,241 | 6,332 | Clinicopathologic features and long-term results of alpha-fetoprotein-producing gastric cancer.
During a 10-yr-period, 24 cases of alpha-fetoprotein-producing gastric cancer were experienced in our department.
The mean age was 62.5 yr, and the sex ratio of males to females was 3:1.
Borrmann II and III types of gastr... | C04 |
9,242 | 7,092 | Expression of P-glycoprotein in adult T-cell leukemia cells.
We have examined the expression of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) in adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) samples from 25 patients.
Based on immunoblotting with a monoclonal antibody against P-gp, C219, 8 of 20 ATL patients were P-gp positive at the initial presentation.
Al... | C04 |
9,243 | 7,161 | Erythrocyte stearic acid desaturation in patients with colorectal carcinoma.
The erythrocyte stearic:oleic acid ratio (saturation index) was investigated as a means of differentiating between control subjects (n = 146) and patients with benign (n = 48) and malignant (n = 117) colorectal disease and patients undergoing... | C04 |
9,244 | 433 | Anorectal malignant melanoma in Sweden. Report of 49 patients.
Clinicopathologic features and prognosis of 49 patients with anal malignant melanoma were investigated in the total Swedish population between 1970 and 1984.
Median age was 71 years (range, 50 to 87 years), and there was a female predominance (31 females,... | C04 |
9,245 | 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... | C04 |
9,246 | 2,098 | Selection of breast-preservation therapy for primary invasive breast carcinoma.
Breast-preservation treatment for primary breast cancer should not be used for all women.
Women frequently excluded from consideration for such treatment or who choose not to have it may be elderly and not concerned about cosmetic appeara... | C04 |
9,247 | 6,304 | Immunophenotypic aberrancy in adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Some recent reports indicate a high frequency of immunophenotypic aberrancy in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
To investigate this issue with regard to adult ALL, the authors reviewed the immunophenotyping data from 39 cases analyzed in their clini... | C04 |
9,248 | 9,113 | Recognition by ELAM-1 of the sialyl-Lex determinant on myeloid and tumor cells.
Endothelial leukocyte adhesion molecule-1 (ELAM-1) is an endothelial cell adhesion molecule that allows myeloid cells to attach to the walls of blood vessels adjacent to sites of inflammation.
ELAM-1 recognizes the sialyl-Lewis X (sialyl-... | C04 |
9,249 | 2,666 | Delayed reconstruction following Mohs' chemosurgery for skin cancers of the head and neck.
The case records of 52 patients with 55 cutaneous neoplasms treated by Mohs' chemosurgery and subsequently reconstructed by plastic surgeons were reviewed to determine if delay between resection and reconstruction adversely affe... | C04 |
9,250 | 2,383 | Free alpha subunit of the pituitary glycoprotein hormones. Measurement in serum and tissue of patients with pituitary tumors.
A solid-phase radioimmunoassay was developed that measures the free alpha subunits of pituitary glycoprotein hormones (alpha PGpHs) and has negligible cross-reactivity with the intact hormones ... | C04 |
9,251 | 5,031 | Perioperative methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin and cisplatin (M-VAC) for poor risk transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder: an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group pilot study.
A total of 18 patients with locally advanced transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder underwent 2 preoperative cycles of chemotherapy... | C04 |
9,252 | 4,347 | Multicentric cloacogenic carcinoma: report of a case with anogenital pruritus at presentation.
A case of multicentric cloacogenic carcinoma of the perianal skin and vulva in a 79-year-old woman is presented, and the embryologic basis for the multicentricity is discussed.
Histologically, cloacogenic carcinoma can be d... | C04 |
9,253 | 3,807 | Prospective study of alcohol intake and large bowel cancer.
The alcohol intake of a cohort of Japanese men in Hawaii is directly and significantly related to the risk of developing rectal cancer, whether assessed on the basis of amount consumed or as a percent of total calories.
Wine and whiskey are directly related ... | C04 |
9,254 | 7,787 | Angiocentric immunoproliferative lesion/T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and the acquired immune deficiency syndrome: a case report and review of the literature.
The lesions known as lymphocytic vasculitis, polymorphic reticulosis (midline malignant reticulosis, lethal midline granuloma), lymphomatoid granulomatosis, and... | C04 |
9,255 | 6,159 | Constitutional symptoms in patients with germ cell neoplasms.
A patient with a mediastinal germ cell neoplasm evidenced fever, weight loss, pruritus, and painful adenopathy on ingestion of alcohol.
Retrospective review revealed that 9 percent of 104 patients with advanced germ cell neoplasm evidence constitutional sy... | C04 |
9,256 | 3,408 | Treatment of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome-related Kaposi's sarcoma with bleomycin as a single agent.
A nonrandomized trial was conducted to assess the efficiency and toxicity of bleomycin as a single agent in treatment of non-life-threatening AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma (KS).
Sixty patients were enrolled... | C04 |
9,257 | 6,053 | The justification for surgical treatment of metastatic melanoma of the gastrointestinal tract.
Fifty-six patients with symptomatic metastatic melanoma of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) treated surgically at the Sydney Melanoma Unit between 1974 and 1989 were reviewed.
The majority of these patients presented with a... | C04 |
9,258 | 8,225 | Technetium-99m(v) dimercaptosuccinic acid planar scintigraphy in head and neck cancer: clinical, scintigraphic and radiological study.
Technetium-99m (Tc99m)(v) Dimercaptosuccinic Acid (DMSA) is an imaging agent which has been proposed as a scintigraphic marker for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Fifty-four pa... | C04 |
9,259 | 5,812 | Dioxin-inducible, Ah receptor-dependent transcription in vitro.
We have developed a homologous in vitro transcription system that requires (i) 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (called TCDD or dioxin), (ii) the Ah receptor, and (iii) a dioxin-responsive enhancer for activity.
Unfractionated nuclear extracts from mo... | C04 |
9,260 | 4,970 | Expression of the MDR1 gene in human gastric and colorectal carcinomas.
We measured expression of the MDR1 gene (also known as the PGY1 gene) in the human gastrointestinal tract.
MDR1 messenger RNA (mRNA) levels were elevated in 13 of 15 colorectal carcinoma specimens and in six of 13 gastric carcinoma specimens.
We... | C04 |
9,261 | 4,321 | Giant eccrine acrospiroma.
Four cases of large eccrine acrospiroma (three benign, one malignant) are reported.
The benign tumors involved the lower extremities of two women and one man (73 to 89 years of age).
The duration of the lesions ranged from 10 to 20 years.
The malignant tumor involved the left side of the ... | C04 |
9,262 | 8,238 | Haemangiosarcoma of the maxillary antrum.
Angiosarcomas are extremely rare in the head and neck and the histological diagnosis is often difficult.
We present a case of a haemangiosarcoma of the maxillary antrum in a 33 year old male.
The histological diagnosis and subsequent management are discussed. | C04 |
9,263 | 8,937 | Glycolysis as primary energy source in tumor cell chemotaxis.
The energy requirements via glycolytic pathways were directly measured in migrating tumor cells.
Motility in the metastatic human melanoma cell line A2058, stimulated by insulinlike growth factor I (IGF-I), depends on glycolysis in the presence of glucose ... | C04 |
9,264 | 9,975 | Adenocarcinoma of the prostate in a 41-year-old man with XXY karyotype and chronic lymphocytic leukemia: report of a case.
We report a case of adenocarcinoma of the prostate in a 41-year-old man with 47XXY karyotype (Klinefelter's syndrome) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
The increased incidence of malignancy in in... | C04 |
9,265 | 2,103 | Reconstruction after mastectomy.
Advances in materials and techniques, especially those involving transposition of muscle and skin flaps, have made breast reconstruction possible for most women who undergo mastectomy for breast cancer.
The availability of this option can alleviate the breast and chest wall deformity ... | C04 |
9,266 | 6,031 | The role of spinal flexibility in back pain complaints within industry. A prospective study.
Commonly used clinical measurements of spinal flexibility in the sagittal and frontal planes were examined as predictors of future back pain reports within industry.
The study sample consisted of 3,020 aircraft manufacturing ... | C21 |
9,267 | 4,917 | Screening for psychiatric and substance abuse disorders in clinical practice.
Psychiatric disorders, particularly depression and alcohol abuse, represent a large burden of illness to the society.
Many individuals with these disorders receive all of their care from health care providers who are not mental health speci... | C21 |
9,268 | 6,519 | Injury and disability in matched men's and women's intercollegiate sports.
Eight matched men's and women's intercollegiate varsity teams were studied prospectively for one academic year to determine the incidence of athletic injury and resulting disability.
Sports in which both men and women participated in a compara... | C21 |
9,269 | 6,726 | Pulmonary fibrosis in aluminum oxide workers. Investigation of nine workers, with pathologic examination and microanalysis in three of them.
Epidemiologic surveys have indicated an excess of nonmalignant respiratory disease in workers exposed to aluminum oxide (Al2O3) during abrasives production.
However, clinical, r... | C21 |
9,270 | 2,779 | Whole-bowel irrigation as treatment for zinc sulfate overdose.
A 16-year-old boy ingested approximately 50 zinc sulfate tablets (ZnSO4; 500-mg tablets).
After spontaneous emesis, ipecac-induced emesis, and orogastric lavage, an abdominal radiograph performed four hours after ingestion still demonstrated approximately... | C21 |
9,271 | 6,756 | Risk for occupational transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) associated with clinical exposures. A prospective evaluation
OBJECTIVES: To summarize the results of a 6-year, ongoing, prospective study of the risk for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) transmission among health care workers... | C21 |
9,272 | 2,060 | Assessing the risk of occupational acquisition of the human immunodeficiency virus: implications for hospital policy.
In determining infection control policy, it is essential to quantitatively assess the risk of transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to health care workers and their families.
The risk sho... | C21 |
9,273 | 8,810 | Recovery of morphine from a controlled-release preparation. A source of opioid abuse.
MS-Contin (Purdue-Fredrick, Norwalk, CT) is a controlled-release preparation of morphine sulfate that has demonstrated efficacy in the management of chronic cancer pain problems.
It has recently come to the attention of the authors ... | C21 |
9,274 | 2,746 | Arterial revascularization by laser angioplasty: first Italian experiences.
Eighty-seven laser angioplasty procedures were performed on 85 patients (73 men and 12 women).
In the first phase (54 patients) a broad selection process included long occlusions (23.9 cm avg) and vessels with heavy calcification; in the seco... | C21 |
9,275 | 9,901 | Orthostatic hypotension in human immunodeficiency virus infection may be the result of generalized autonomic nervous system dysfunction.
We used an autonomic nervous system (ANS) testing battery to determine if generalized ANS dysfunction was present in five human immunodeficiency virus-positive (HIV+) patients presen... | C21 |
9,276 | 322 | Results of treatment of tibial and femoral osteomyelitis in adults.
From January 1, 1971, to December 31, 1985, 425 patients with chronic osteomyelitis of the femur or tibia were seen at the authors' institution.
The success rate in this recent experience was 84.4% compared with 50.9% in the authors' results publishe... | C21 |
9,277 | 2,690 | Examination of Cloninger's type I and type II alcoholism with a sample of men alcoholics in treatment.
Cloninger's clinical method of classifying alcoholics into two groups (Types I and II) was examined with data obtained from 360 VA hospitalized male alcoholic patients.
For operational criteria, the Cloninger clinic... | C21 |
9,278 | 839 | The many faces and phases of borreliosis. I. Lyme disease [published erratum appears in J Am Acad Dermatol 1991 Apr;24(4):663]
Lyme disease is increasingly being reported throughout the United States and many parts of the world.
Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of Lyme disease, is a spirochete that, not unl... | C21 |
9,279 | 2,644 | Long-term effects of radiotherapy in childhood and adolescence.
The records of 50 selected pediatric patients who were treated and followed at M.
D.
Anderson Cancer Center were reviewed to study the late effects of nonsurgical treatment of cancer in children.
There were 26 girls and 24 boys ranging in age between 2... | C21 |
9,280 | 3,034 | Popliteal vascular trauma. A community experience.
Preventing amputation continues to be a significant challenge when popliteal vascular injuries occur.
A retrospective review of cases from the San Diego County (California) Trauma System identified 108 patients with 76 blunt and 32 penetrating arterial injuries.
The... | C21 |
9,281 | 5,270 | Comparison of oral iron chelator L1 and desferrioxamine in iron-loaded patients.
The efficacy of the oral iron chelator 1,2-dimethyl-3-hydroxypyrid-4-one (L1) was compared with that of subcutaneous desferrioxamine in 26 patients with transfusional iron overload.
Immediately after red-cell transfusion, 20 patients wer... | C21 |
9,282 | 2,177 | Effort rupture of the diaphragm.
Effort rupture of the diaphragm is rare and accounts for only 1% of all diaphragmatic injuries.
A 23 year old patient with bilateral rupture that followed sudden movement is described. | C21 |
9,283 | 2,142 | Early tracheostomy for primary airway management in the surgical critical care setting.
During a 12-month period, 264 patients with multiple injuries who required mechanical ventilation were admitted to the surgical intensive care unit.
One hundred twenty patients (46%) were disengaged from the ventilator, and 38 pat... | C21 |
9,284 | 2,256 | Alcohol and trauma. An endemic syndrome.
Injuries are a pervasive and costly problem, and alcohol use appears to be an important risk factor for injury.
We examined the blood alcohol levels and selected demographic and epidemiologic variables recorded on trauma patients by 1 trauma center for a 28-month period.
A to... | C21 |
9,285 | 747 | Corticocancellous grafting and an AO/ASIF lag screw for nonunion of the scaphoid. A retrospective analysis.
We report our experience in 42 patients, using corticocancellous bone grafts and lag screw fixation for un-united scaphoid fractures.
Using a grading system, we analysed the suitability of the method for three ... | C21 |
9,286 | 6,809 | Spinal cord compression with paraplegia in xanthomatosis due to normocholesterolemic sitosterolemia.
A 48-year-old woman with a 30-year history of tendinous xanthomatosis developed paraplegia.
The magnetic resonance image revealed extramedullary tumors.
The analysis of her sera and tumors revealed increased amount o... | C21 |
9,287 | 3,824 | Neurologic complications of alcoholism.
Neurologic and myopathic complications of alcoholism are multiple and diverse, affecting both the central and peripheral nervous systems.
In the ED, initial concern is for diagnosing readily reversible causes and ruling out possible life- or limb-threatening etiologies.
A rapi... | C21 |
9,288 | 9,141 | Cerebrospinal fluid endothelin-1 and endothelin-3 levels in normal and neurosurgical patients: a clinical study and literature review.
Endothelins are a family of structurally related, potent, long-lasting vasoconstrictor peptides.
There are no established normal human levels of endothelin-1 or endothelin-3 in the ce... | C21 |
9,289 | 4,741 | Fatal ethanol intoxication from household products not intended for ingestion.
Fatal acute ethanol intoxication is frequently encountered in medicolegal practice.
Although the vast majority of acute ethanol toxicity deaths follow the ingestion of conventional alcoholic beverages, ethanol can be obtained from a variet... | C21 |
9,290 | 2,929 | The process of microbial translocation.
The process of microbial translocation was studied using Candida albicans, Escherichia coli, or endotoxin instilled into Thiry-Vella loops of thermally injured guinea pigs and rats.
Translocation of C.
albicans occurred by direct penetration of enterocytes by a unique process ... | C21 |
9,291 | 737 | Secondary total hip replacement after fractures of the femoral neck.
We studied the rate of revision in 84 consecutive total hip replacements performed for failed osteosynthesis of femoral neck fractures and compared it with that for primary arthroplasty for osteoarthritis.
The age and sex adjusted risk of prosthetic... | C21 |
9,292 | 992 | Scroto-abdominal impalement injury in a skateboard rider.
The injuries sustained by skateboard riders vary from minor cuts and abrasions to fractures.
This report describes a unique injury sustained by a young skateboard rider who was impaled on a metal rod.
Literature review of over 1,254 skateboard injuries did no... | C21 |
9,293 | 2,775 | Predicting the severity of cocaine-associated rhabdomyolysis.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: The syndrome of rhabdomyolysis associated with cocaine use has been recently described, but the incidence, severity, risk factors, and complications are unknown.
This study sought to describe the spectrum of the syndrome and identify clin... | C21 |
9,294 | 7,553 | A profile of alcohol and prescription drug abuse in a high-risk community-based elderly population.
Substance abuse among the elderly is relatively common but often remains undetected or ignored by health and social workers.
Psychosocial and health factors related to the aging process are the major contributors to al... | C21 |
9,295 | 2,250 | Single polypoid cystitis cystica and glandularis presenting as benign bladder tumor.
A case report of a ten-year-old boy with a benign polypoid bladder tumor is presented.
The rarity of benign or malignant bladder tumors in children is reviewed, as well as the possible etiology of this unique lesion. | C21 |
9,296 | 8,096 | Open reduction and fixation of proximal humeral fractures and fracture-dislocations.
Open reduction and internal fixation was employed in the treatment of 25 severely displaced fractures and fracture-dislocations of the proximal humerus.
Our aims were accurate reduction and stable fixation to allow early mobilisation... | C21 |
9,297 | 8,115 | A survey of wound monitoring and topical antimicrobial therapy practices in the treatment of burn injury.
A survey was done to determine how burn wound microbial monitoring is performed and how topical antimicrobial agents are employed.
The survey was sent to 90 burn-care facilities, which comprised most of the major... | C21 |
9,298 | 2,405 | Identification of the driver in two-rider motorcycle accidents. Inguinal contusion-laceration as an indication of the driver.
In motorcycle accidents involving two riders, medicolegal identification of the driver is necessary when one or both riders die.
It is particularly important in the latter case, because the su... | C21 |
9,299 | 4,751 | An elliptical incised wound of the breast misinterpreted as a bite injury.
Bite injuries upon homicide victims are most often initially identified by the forensic pathologist during the course of the autopsy examination.
Following such recognition, the injury or photographs of the traumatized site are then referred t... | C21 |
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