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9,900 | 9,281 | Nasal and oral flow-volume loops in normal subjects and patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
Because flow-volume loops (FVLs) are clinically useful in evaluating upper airway (UA) obstruction and the fact that patency of the nasopharyngeal ventilatory pathway is important to the prevention of obstructive sleep apnea... | C10 |
9,901 | 7,525 | Cerebral blood flow velocities in the anterior cerebral arteries and basilar artery in hydrocephalus before and after treatment.
We studied Pourcelot's index (PI), which shows cerebral vascular resistance, in the anterior cerebral arteries and basilar artery, and the PI ratio (Pourcelot's index in the anterior cerebra... | C10 |
9,902 | 4,374 | Mandibular osteomyelitis in a patient with sickle cell anemia: report of case.
A case is presented in which mandibular osteomyelitis and mental nerve paresthesia developed in a patient with sickle cell anemia.
This infection appeared to precipitate a sickle cell crisis.
The mechanisms for these patients' propensity ... | C10 |
9,903 | 4,839 | Cerebrovascular and metabolic effects on the rat brain of focal Nd:YAG laser irradiation.
To investigate the effects of focal neodymium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet (Nd:YAG) laser irradiation (lambda = 1060 nm) on regional cerebral blood flow, cerebral protein synthesis, and blood-brain barrier permeability, the parietal b... | C10 |
9,904 | 6,842 | Does carotid restenosis predict an increased risk of late symptoms, stroke, or death?
The identification of carotid restenosis as an unexpected late complication of carotid endarterectomy has prompted concerns regarding its importance as a source of new cerebral symptoms, stroke, and death.
To investigate these conce... | C10 |
9,905 | 6,008 | Normeperidine-induced seizures in hereditary coproporphyria.
Seizures are common in acute exacerbations of hepatic porphyria, even though the etiology is not identified in most cases.
We have reported a case of normeperidine-induced seizures in a patient with hereditary coproporphyria.
Although meperidine is commonl... | C10 |
9,906 | 4,388 | Prolonged anginal perceptual threshold in diabetes: effects on exercise capacity and myocardial ischemia.
Anginal perceptual threshold (the time from onset of 0.1 mV of ST segment depression to onset of angina during treadmill exercise) is prolonged in diabetic patients with coronary artery disease.
In the present st... | C10 |
9,907 | 8,149 | What practicing physicians in North Carolina rate as their most challenging geriatric medicine concerns.
We recently surveyed a random sample of 500 physicians in family practice, general practice, and internal medicine in North Carolina, to discover their most challenging geriatric concerns.
Using a three-stage surv... | C10 |
9,908 | 8,256 | Parkinsonian tremor loses its alternating aspect during non-REM sleep and is inhibited by REM sleep.
Non-REM sleep transforms the waking alternating Parkinsonian tremor into subclinical repetitive muscle contractions whose amplitude and duration decrease as non-REM sleep progresses from stages I to IV.
During REM sle... | C10 |
9,909 | 5,103 | Management of children with myelodysplasia: urological alternatives.
Recent reports have suggested that the prophylactic use of clean intermittent catheterization in selected infants with myelodysplasia and with normal upper tracts may prevent their deterioration.
The selection of these patients at risk depends on ur... | C10 |
9,910 | 7,030 | Ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging in Leigh disease.
An infant with Leigh disease, who was the younger sister of a similarly affected infant, had been examined before the onset of the disease.
Ultrasonography revealed hyperechoic lesions in the putamen and caudate nucleus during the preclinical stage.
At... | C10 |
9,911 | 3,888 | Anatomical, physiological, and theoretical basis for the antiepileptic effect of vagus nerve stimulation.
The vagus is a mixed nerve carrying somatic and visceral afferents and efferents.
The majority of vagal nerve fibers are visceral afferents and have a wide distribution throughout the central nervous system (CNS)... | C10 |
9,912 | 4,459 | The role of antihistamine therapy in vascular headaches.
Migraine (vascular) headache is a complex syndrome that involves vascular hyperreactivity.
The functions of systemic mediators in migraine are not fully understood.
It is unclear which mediators provoke this probably atopic disorder and which represent an atte... | C10 |
9,913 | 9,895 | Examination by logistic regression modelling of the variables which increase the relative risk of elderly women falling compared to elderly men.
In a community based, prospective study to determine risk factors for falls, 465 women and 296 men 70 years and over were followed for 1 year and 507 falls were documented.
... | C10 |
9,914 | 5,441 | Functional results of facial nerve suture after removal of acoustic neurinoma: analysis of 25 cases.
The facial nerve is sometimes severed during the removal of acoustic neurinomas, either intentionally to ensure complete removal, or unintentionally because of difficulties in identification.
In such cases we have, if... | C10 |
9,915 | 2,718 | Nitrous oxide does not alter infarct volume in rats undergoing reversible middle cerebral artery occlusion.
This experiment was designed to determine if nitrous oxide alters neurologic and pathologic outcome from temporary focal cerebral ischemia in spontaneously hypertensive rats deeply anesthetized with a barbiturat... | C10 |
9,916 | 4,934 | Speech, velopharyngeal function, and hearing before and after orthognathic surgery.
Articulation, voice, resonance, hearing sensitivity, and middle ear function were examined in 34 patients before and 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after orthognathic surgery.
Thirty of the 34 patients had articulation errors before surgery.
... | C10 |
9,917 | 9,140 | Unilateral hydrocephalus in adults.
The authors report 14 cases of unilateral hydrocephalus in adults.
Headache was the most common presenting symptom.
Unilateral hydrocephalus was documented in each patient with computed tomography scans; magnetic resonance imaging was also used in seven patients in the latter part... | C10 |
9,918 | 9,034 | Quantifying language development from birth to 3 years using the Early Language Milestone Scale.
A point-scoring technique for the Early Language Milestone Scale is described.
Normative data based on the original 1982 cross-sectional sample and validation data based on a separate longitudinal sample are presented.
M... | C10 |
9,919 | 7,890 | Maxillofacial surgery and nasal CPAP. A comparison of treatment for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the primary therapy for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS).
Recent reports have indicated, however, that there is a small but significant number of failures re... | C10 |
9,920 | 3,303 | Unawareness of hypoglycaemia and inadequate hypoglycaemic counterregulation: no causal relation with diabetic autonomic neuropathy
OBJECTIVE--To examine the traditional view that unawareness of hypoglycaemia and inadequate hypoglycaemic counterregulation in insulin dependent diabetes mellitus are manifestations of au... | C10 |
9,921 | 8,480 | Cytoreductive hepatic surgery for neuroendocrine tumors.
We retrospectively reviewed 37 patients who underwent hepatic resection between 1970 and 1989 to evaluate the role of cytoreductive hepatic surgery in patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (carcinoid, 24; islet cell, 13).
Seventeen resections were cura... | C10 |
9,922 | 2,252 | Transitional cell carcinomatous meningitis after M-VAC (methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin) chemotherapy.
The M-VAC (methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin) regimen has been utilized at our two institutions to treat 17 patients with advanced stage transitional cell carcinoma of the bl... | C10 |
9,923 | 9,332 | Synaptic transmission in human neocortex removed for treatment of intractable epilepsy in children.
Synaptic transmission to pyramidal cells was studied in slices of neocortex resected from infants and children (n = 10, age 8 months to 13 years) undergoing surgical treatment for intractable epilepsy.
Most specimens w... | C10 |
9,924 | 7,064 | The use of obstetric analgesia in Sweden 1983-1986
The use of obstetric analgesia was investigated in a Swedish population-based prospective study of 335,207 births, which represents almost all women who had vaginal deliveries in Sweden between 1983 and 1986.
Lumbar epidural analgesia (EDA) was used in 16%, paracerv... | C10 |
9,925 | 6,012 | Persistent segmental cutaneous anesthesia after a brown recluse spider bite.
Patients with brown recluse spider bites commonly suffer from pain, muscular aching, and a variety of local dysesthesias during the acute and resolution phases of toxin-induced injury.
This is our first well-documented observation of persist... | C10 |
9,926 | 8,592 | Laser placement in noncontact Nd:YAG cyclophotocoagulation.
We treated 40 eyes of 40 patients by using noncontact transscleral Nd:YAG cyclophotocoagulation to determine whether treatment 1.5 or 3.0 mm posterior to the corneoscleral lumbus was preferable.
Patients were randomly assigned to one of the treatment groups,... | C10 |
9,927 | 772 | Combined epidural and general anesthesia in aortic surgery.
The perioperative course of 144 consecutive patients undergoing aortic reconstructive surgery was studied to assess the potential benefit of employing a combined epidural and light general anesthesia technique.
A group of 67 patients had general anesthesia a... | C10 |
9,928 | 7,916 | Neonatal monosodium glutamate abolishes corticotropin-releasing factor-induced epileptogenic activity in rats.
Intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) injection of rat corticotropin-releasing factor (rCRF) at doses of 5-20 micrograms in rats induces epileptogenic activity characterized by pacemaker-like spikes localized in t... | C10 |
9,929 | 3,053 | Brain imaging abnormalities in mental disorders of late life.
Psychiatric inpatients with dementia (N = 61) or depression (N = 67) in late life were 2.6 times more likely to manifest magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities of the brain than were elderly controls (N = 44).
Controlling for the effects of age and gende... | C10 |
9,930 | 5,487 | Mechanism of stroke in patients taking aspirin.
During a 1-year period, we prospectively studied the mechanism and severity of stroke in 47 patients sustaining a cerebral infarction while taking aspirin.
The mechanism of stroke was undetermined in 12 patients (26%).
In the remaining 35 patients, we identified 39 pot... | C10 |
9,931 | 9,698 | From disease to delirium: managing the declining elderly patient.
Many geriatric patients have concurrent physical and psychiatric illnesses, but at times it may be difficult to determine which is primary.
Delirium, a transient syndrome that presents with psychiatric symptoms, is usually the manifestation of an organ... | C10 |
9,932 | 5,360 | A review of techniques employed to estimate the number of motor units in a muscle.
Being the smallest functional units under neural control, motor units play an integral role in muscle physiology.
However, at the present time, there does not exist any widely accepted technique for quantifying or estimating the number... | C10 |
9,933 | 3,015 | Rehabilitation of chronic stroke patients: changes in functional performance.
Forty stroke patients who were at least one year post-onset completed a one-month intensive rehabilitation program.
The month before the program served as a control period.
During the program, patients received individual sessions in occup... | C10 |
9,934 | 8,359 | Sensory visual testing in idiopathic intracranial hypertension: measures sensitive to change.
Management decisions in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH; pseudotumor cerebri) are based on the presence and change of visual loss.
To study this change, we evaluated tests of sensory visual function over time.
We ... | C10 |
9,935 | 2,851 | Cholinergic deficiency and frontal dysfunction in Parkinson's disease.
To investigate the influence of central cholinergic deficit on cognitive function in Parkinson's disease (PD), we compared the neuropsychological performance of a group of 20 patients who were treated with anticholinergic drugs (mean daily dose, 10... | C10 |
9,936 | 3,287 | Immunophenotypic characteristics of cerebrospinal fluid cells in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at diagnosis.
The presence of meningeal involvement in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) may have important prognostic and therapeutic implications.
Conventional methods of diagnosing central ner... | C10 |
9,937 | 8,362 | Infantile CNS spongy degeneration--14 cases: clinical update.
We studied 14 Arab infants with infantile spongy degeneration, 13 of whom were products of consanguineous marriages.
They presented in infancy with macrocephaly, poor visual behavior or blindness, and axial hypotonia with appendicular spasticity.
Brain CT... | C10 |
9,938 | 5,489 | Prolonged confusion following convulsions due to generalized nonconvulsive status epilepticus.
Among patients with a prolonged confusional state after convulsive seizure, we diagnosed 8 cases as generalized nonconvulsive status epilepticus.
Six had a history of seizures, and 2 had new onset.
The convulsive seizures ... | C10 |
9,939 | 5,450 | Vagal schwannoma associated with syncopal attacks and postural hypotension: a case report.
A case of vagal schwannoma in the cerebellomedullary angle is reported.
Preoperatively, the patient had paroxysmal episodes of postural hypotension with syncope.
After total removal of the vagal tumor, her systemic blood press... | C10 |
9,940 | 3,049 | Racial differences in the anterior circulation in cerebrovascular disease. How much can be explained by risk factors?
The entry characteristics of 1367 patients enrolled into the Extracranial/Intracranial Bypass Study were examined to determine if site differences in intracranial and extracranial arterial lesions amon... | C10 |
9,941 | 2,180 | Acute and long-term changes in serum lipids after acute stroke.
We studied serum lipid profiles in 171 patients less than or equal to 48 hours after the onset of acute stroke and 3 months later.
The 83 patients suffering cerebral infarction had significantly higher serum concentrations of total cholesterol, low densi... | C10 |
9,942 | 3,023 | Childhood stroke after minor neck trauma: case report.
Cerebral infarction after minor trauma to the neck has rarely been reported.
A case is presented of a child with trauma to the vertebrobasilar artery resulting in stroke.
Computerized tomography scan and angiography results are presented.
Despite two subsequent... | C10 |
9,943 | 9,935 | Severe cerebral and systemic necrotizing vasculitis developing during pregnancy in a case of systemic lupus erythematosus.
We describe a fatal case of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) developing cerebral and systemic necrotizing vasculitis during pregnancy.
The patient was discovered to have SLE at 14 weeks' gestat... | C10 |
9,944 | 9,553 | An extracorporeal perfusion system to bridge pediatric liver transplant candidates.
An extracorporeal liver perfusion system was designed to maintain cadaver livers in an oxygenated, normothermic state for bridging procedures for hepatic transplantation.
Nonpulsatile high flow and pulsatile low flow blood are supplie... | C10 |
9,945 | 4,944 | Serial magnetic resonance imaging in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.
We prospectively performed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies during the neonatal period, and at 4 and 8 months of age, on 15 term infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, and compared the results with their neurodevelopmental ou... | C10 |
9,946 | 8,646 | Benign intracranial hypertension after ciprofloxacin administration.
Many drugs, including antibiotics, have been implicated in the aetiology of benign intracranial hypertension.
We report the development of benign intracranial hypertension after the use of ciprofloxacin in a teenager with cystic fibrosis. | C10 |
9,947 | 6,108 | Effects of MK-801 on recovery from sensorimotor cortex lesions.
Histologic evidence suggests that drugs acting as noncompetitive antagonists at the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor can have beneficial or pathologic effects on central nervous system neurons.
In the present experiments we examined the effects of MK-801 on... | C10 |
9,948 | 5,118 | The effect of an alpha-2 agonist on bladder function and cord histology after spinal cord injury [retracted by Weiss R, Tomasula JJ, Sotologo JR Jr. In: J Urol 1991 Aug;146(2):426]
Spinal injury in cats is accompanied by urinary bladder and hind limb dysfunction.
Ten cats subjected to spinal contusion at the ninth th... | C10 |
9,949 | 5,361 | Spatial dispersion of magnetic stimulation in peripheral nerves.
To assess the longitudinal dispersion of the stimulus induced by the magnetic coil, collision experiments were performed in seven normal ulnar nerves.
A supramaximal electrical stimulus S1 was delivered at the wrist, and followed by a supramaximal stimu... | C10 |
9,950 | 3,572 | Neurological and ophthalmological phenomena after aortic conduit surgery.
Transient neurological and visual signs have been observed in some patients after valved conduit replacement of the aortic valve and ascending aorta.
Twenty-seven patients having valved conduit replacement between February 1982 and October 1988... | C10 |
9,951 | 4,387 | Plasma homocyst(e)ine levels in men with premature coronary artery disease.
Plasma homocyst(e)ine (that is, the sum of free and bound homocysteine and its oxidized forms, homocystine and homocysteine-cysteine mixed disulfide) levels were determined in 170 men (mean age +/- SD 50 +/- 7 years) with premature coronary ar... | C10 |
9,952 | 730 | The effect of improved cementing techniques on component loosening in total hip replacement. An 11-year radiographic review.
Improved cementing techniques have been shown to decrease the rate of aseptic loosening of femoral components of cemented total hip replacements at five to seven years.
We now report our result... | C10 |
9,953 | 6,130 | Platelet-activating factor. A putative mediator in central nervous system injury?
Platelet-activating factor (1-O-hexadecyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphorylcholine) is a potent lipid autacoid produced by many cell types.
Platelet-activating factor is produced by cerebellar granule cells in culture and has been extrac... | C10 |
9,954 | 6,690 | Occipital condyle fracture presenting as retropharyngeal hematoma.
Reported is the case of a 30-year-old male motorcycle accident victim who was found on plain cervical-spine radiography to have prevertebral soft-tissue swelling.
Although subsequent computed tomography demonstrated no cervical-spine fracture, it did ... | C10 |
9,955 | 3,475 | Anaesthetic management of the brain dead for organ donation.
An increasing number of anaesthetists is being called upon to manage organ donors during organ retrieval procedures.
We briefly describe the technical aspects of the surgical procedure together with a guide to the anaesthetic management.
The aims of the la... | C10 |
9,956 | 9,442 | Safety, stability, and effectiveness of immunoadsorption under membrane plasmapheresis treatment for myasthenia gravis.
Nine patients (five women and four men, average age 50.4 years) with refractory myasthenia gravis (MG) underwent thymectomy and were then treated with immunoadsorption under membrane plasmaphersis (I... | C10 |
9,957 | 3,925 | Transient hyperprolactinemia is associated with a midcycle luteinizing hormone surge.
This study demonstrates that LH surge cycles in IVF patients were associated with significantly higher serum PRL concentrations than cycles in which a spontaneous LH surge did not occur.
Our findings support the hypothesis of concom... | C10 |
9,958 | 5,444 | Mild head injury classification.
Inconsistencies across studies concerning outcome after mild head injury may reflect differences in the diagnostic criteria used for selection of patients.
Consequently, we compared the neurobehavioral outcome in three groups of consecutively hospitalized patients (aged 16 to 50 years... | C10 |
9,959 | 8,510 | Role of serum prolactin determination in evaluation of impotent patient.
Hyperprolactinemia is a recognized cause of impotence.
The discovery of elevated prolactin levels in impotent men is very important since pharmacotherapy in this instance is highly successful.
We review our experience with prolactin determinati... | C10 |
9,960 | 3,631 | Anterior acromioplasty for treatment of the shoulder impingement syndrome.
Between 1975 and 1979, anterior acromioplasty was performed in 65 patients with 66 involved shoulders.
The procedure appears to be safe and reasonably effective.
Of the 65 patients in this study, 50 had chronic tendon inflammation with fibros... | C10 |
9,961 | 9,374 | Primary progressive aphasia. Longitudinal course, neuropsychological profile, and language features.
Four patients with the clinical syndrome of primary progressive aphasia and a nonfluent aphasia profile were followed up over a period of 3 to 5 years.
Extensive neuropsychological data for three patients revealed a p... | C10 |
9,962 | 9,009 | Health locus of control, gender differences and adjustment to persistent pain.
Locus of control (LOC) beliefs, long thought important in adjustment to persistent pain, were studied among 160 subjects (67 males and 93 females) referred to a comprehensive pain rehabilitation program.
The subscale structure of the Multi... | C10 |
9,963 | 8,813 | Choroid plexus tumors in the breast cancer-sarcoma syndrome.
Choroid plexus neoplasms are rare epithelial tumors of the central nervous system.
A carcinoma of the choroid plexus occurred in a child from a family with the breast cancer-sarcoma syndrome (Li-Fraumeni or SBLA syndrome), an inherited condition characteriz... | C10 |
9,964 | 265 | Brain protection: physiological and pharmacological considerations. Part I: The physiology of brain injury.
Ischaemia, whether focal or global in nature, produces a sequence of intracellular events leading to increased cell permeability to water and ions including Ca++.
There is a loss of cellular integrity and funct... | C10 |
9,965 | 5,449 | Clinical study of intracranial nongerminomatous germ cell tumors producing alpha-fetoprotein.
We present six patients with intracranial nongerminomatous germ cell tumors that produced alpha-fetoprotein (AFP).
Their ages ranged from 8 to 20 years (average, 11.5 years old); two were male and four were female.
Four of ... | C10 |
9,966 | 7,418 | Treating systemic fungal infections in AIDS patients. Prolonging life against the odds.
Fungal infections have become one of the major causes of death among immunocompromised patients, particularly patients with AIDS.
Accurate and quick diagnosis is difficult; therefore, empirical therapy is often necessary.
This sc... | C10 |
9,967 | 7,760 | Innervation territories for touch and pain afferents of single fascicles of the human ulnar nerve. Mapping through intraneural microrecording and microstimulation.
The peripheral distribution of the fibre content of individual ulnar nerve fascicles supplying skin and muscles of the hand in human volunteers was indirec... | C10 |
9,968 | 8,385 | Is emotional disturbance a precipitator or a consequence of chronic pain?
The present study examined the relationship between psychological factors and pain in order to assess the contribution of emotional disturbance to the perpetuation of pain.
A group of 163 chronic pain suffers in multiple settings was compared w... | C10 |
9,969 | 8,615 | Antinociceptive interaction between opioids and medetomidine: systemic additivity and spinal synergy.
The antinociceptive interaction on the tail flick (TF) and hot plate (HP) tests between opioid analgesics and medetomidine after intravenous (iv) or intrathecal administration were examined by isobolographic analysis.... | C10 |
9,970 | 4,029 | Atrial fibrillation in the elderly: management update.
Non-valvular atrial fibrillation is associated with a markedly increased risk of embolic stroke in elderly persons.
Evidence is accumulating that anticoagulation with warfarin or aspirin may be effective in reducing this risk. | C10 |
9,971 | 8,100 | Failed acromioplasty for impingement syndrome.
We evaluated 67 shoulders in 65 patients who had pain and dysfunction for more than two years after an initial acromioplasty for impingement syndrome without a rotator cuff tear.
In addition to a thorough history, physical examination, local anaesthesia injection and any... | C10 |
9,972 | 6,945 | Gilles de la Tourette syndrome is not linked to D2-dopamine receptor.
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome has an important genetic component; the pathophysiology of this disorder may involve the dopamine system.
We tested a D2-dopamine receptor (locus DRD2, recognized by probe hD2G1) for genetic linkage with Gilles de la ... | C10 |
9,973 | 7,685 | Altered waveform of plasma nocturnal melatonin secretion in premenstrual depression.
The nocturnal secretion of plasma melatonin was determined under dim to dark conditions in eight patients with prospectively confirmed premenstrual syndrome and in eight age- and menstrual cycle phase-matched normal control subjects.
... | C10 |
9,974 | 6,915 | Misdiagnosis in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
To confirm our impression that a high percentage of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are initially misdiagnosed, we reviewed records of 33 patients with a definitive diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis seen over 10 years.
Fourteen patients... | C10 |
9,975 | 7,606 | Brainstem auditory evoked response and subcortical abnormalities in autism.
Previous studies of the neurobiology of autism that have used the brainstem auditory evoked response have given contradictory results.
The authors of this study considered two supplementary aspects; they added an ipsilateral masking procedure... | C10 |
9,976 | 9,337 | NMDA antagonists potentiate antiparkinsonian actions of L-dopa in monoamine-depleted rats.
Systemically administered N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonists, MK-801 ((+)5-methyl-10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenzo(a,d)cyclohepten-5,10-imine maleate) and CPP (3-[(+-)-2-carboxypiperazin-4-yl]-propyl-1-phosphonate), potentiate the ... | C10 |
9,977 | 4,013 | Heterotopic liver transplantation for fulminant Wilson's disease.
Wilson's disease may present with severe acute hepatocellular failure.
The only effective treatment for fulminant Wilson's disease is liver transplantation, which may lead to reversal of the underlying disease.
Some patients with cirrhosis who are too... | C10 |
9,978 | 2,946 | Diagnostic imaging and surgical treatment of dumbbell tumors of the mediastinum.
We describe the diagnostic procedures and surgical approaches employed in 5 patients with dumbbell tumors of the mediastinum.
Magnetic resonance imaging accurately described the existence and longitudinal extension of the intraspinal com... | C10 |
9,979 | 7,763 | Selective spatial attention in patients with visual extinction.
The present study was designed to verify the attentional performance of patients with parietal lesions in the experimental condition in which they had to pay attention to 3 spatial positions located on the left, on the right and directly above the fixatio... | C10 |
9,980 | 2,081 | Histopathologic correlation of magnetic resonance imaging signal patterns in a spinal cord injury model.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides a noninvasive method of monitoring the pathologic response to spinal cord injury.
Specific MR signal intensity patterns appear to correlate with degrees of improvement in ... | C10 |
9,981 | 7,877 | A limited diagnostic investigation for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Oximetry and static charge sensitive bed.
A simplified sleep apnea investigation consisting of combined oximetry and respiration movement monitoring was compared with conventional polysomnography.
These two types of recordings were performed sim... | C10 |
9,982 | 5,445 | Diffuse axonal injury: analysis of 100 patients with radiological signs.
One hundred patients with head injuries who showed diffuse axonal injury on computed tomographic scans are reported.
Evaluation of the Glasgow Coma Score, pupillary signs, and computed tomographic findings on admission led to an improved ability... | C10 |
9,983 | 3,889 | Feasibility and safety of vagal stimulation in monkey model.
The feasibility, safety, and preliminary effects of chronic vagal stimulation were studied in an aluminagel monkey model.
Pilot studies to perfect the equipment, determine stimulation thresholds, and insure the comfort and safety of the animals preceded thi... | C10 |
9,984 | 9,273 | pH-adjustment and discomfort caused by the intradermal injection of lignocaine [published erratum appears in Anaesthesia 1991 Mar;46(3):242]
One hundred adult day-case patients who required intravenous access had cannulae inserted using local anaesthesia with 1% lignocaine, 1% lignocaine with adrenaline or the corresp... | C10 |
9,985 | 7,822 | Osseointegration of titanium implants in total hip arthroplasty.
Osseointegration is defined as direct contact on the light microscopic level between living bone tissue and the implant.
Using titanium screw dental implants in the jaw, a lasting interface under loaded conditions extending over a 20-year follow-up peri... | C10 |
9,986 | 9,338 | Cerebrospinal fluid neopterin in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection.
We evaluated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of neopterin, a putative marker of activated macrophages, in 97 subjects infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 who had a spectrum of neurological complications.
The highest... | C10 |
9,987 | 3,897 | The epilepsies: clinical implications of the international classification.
From the earliest days of neurology, the classification of epileptic seizures into those generalized from the beginning and those with a definable localization in the cortex from the onset has added to knowledge about the function of the nervou... | C10 |
9,988 | 2,354 | Aortic calcified plaques and cardiovascular disease (the Framingham Study).
The relation between the presence of calcified plaques in the thoracic aorta, as detected on chest x-rays, and the development of cardiovascular disease is examined during 12 years of follow-up of the Framingham cohort (n = 5,209).
The preval... | C10 |
9,989 | 5,393 | Seizures and other neurologic sequelae of bacterial meningitis in children.
BACKGROUND.
Although the mortality rate among children with bacterial meningitis has decreased dramatically in recent decades, some patients are left with neurologic sequelae.
It has not been clearly established which features of the acute i... | C10 |
9,990 | 806 | Deletion of Alu sequences in the fifth c-sis intron in individuals with meningiomas.
An abnormality in the c-sis protooncogene was identified in leukocyte DNA from members of a family predisposed to the development of meningioma, and was found to be associated with the development of the tumor in those individuals.
M... | C10 |
9,991 | 3,045 | Failure to detect human T-cell leukemia virus-related sequences in multiple sclerosis blood.
We tested 11 patients with multiple sclerosis for the presence of human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I)- or type II (HTLV-II)-related sequences.
DNA from blood mononuclear cells was analyzed by the polymerase chain reac... | C10 |
9,992 | 8,367 | Large cystic optic glioma.
A 5 1/2-year-old boy developed a huge cyst in his chiasmal glioma 4 years after radiation therapy.
The cyst produced obtundation but was successfully treated. | C10 |
9,993 | 7,684 | Rapid eye movement sleep deprivation as a probe in elderly subjects.
The effects of a 2-night rapid eye movement (REM) sleep deprivation (RSD) procedure on electroencephalographic sleep and mood were examined in 15 healthy elderly control subjects, 14 elderly patients with endogenous depression, and 15 patients with p... | C10 |
9,994 | 6,991 | Screening for early dementia using memory complaints from patients and relatives.
This study examined whether the subjective impression of memory function might differentiate healthy elderly subjects from patients with memory complaints, and whether memory complaints differed between patients with and without a dement... | C10 |
9,995 | 4,841 | Cerebral venous oxygen content as a measure of brain energy metabolism with increased intracranial pressure and hyperventilation.
In order to test the hypothesis that the cerebral arteriovenous oxygen difference (AVDO2) and venous oxygen content (VO2) could be used to monitor brain energy metabolism in the setting of ... | C10 |
9,996 | 764 | Operative and conservative treatment of moderate spondylolisthesis in young patients.
We made a retrospective study of 149 children and adolescents with moderate spondylolisthesis (slip less than or equal to 30%), 77 treated by fusion and 72 conservatively at an average follow-up of 13.3 years.
Both groups were fully... | C10 |
9,997 | 5,890 | Interferon system and natural killer cell activity in myasthenia gravis.
The autoimmune response in myasthenia gravis is well characterized, but little is known about the mechanisms initiating it.
We have studied the interferon system and natural killer cell activity in 25 patients with myasthenia gravis and compared... | C10 |
9,998 | 7,349 | A single cholesterol measurement underestimates the risk of coronary heart disease. An empirical example from the Lipid Research Clinics Mortality Follow-up Study.
In prospective epidemiologic studies of coronary heart disease, a single measurement of cholesterol is made to assess its relationship to the risk of coron... | C10 |
9,999 | 5,482 | Pituitary hemorrhage into a Rathke's cleft cyst
This report describes a case of symptomatic pituitary hemorrhage into a Rathke's cleft cyst in a 25-year-old woman.
The literature on pituitary hemorrhage in nonadenomatous sellar tumors is reviewed. | C10 |
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