Diagnosis of scabies.

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journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bob-Manuel T,Askandar S,Khouzam RN

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported the case of a 19-year-old black man with sickle cell disease who had swelling over the right frontal and periorbital areas. Plain roentgenograms and CT scans were consistent with frontal sinus disease. At trephination, however, sterile liquescent blood clot was found in the frontal sinus. Awareness of...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Seibert RW,Seibert JJ,Frazier EA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a serious acute systemic illness frequently complicated by cardiac involvement. To evaluate the spectrum of myocardial dysfunction, we obtained M-mode echocardiograms on nine consecutive patients with Rocky Mountain spotted fever within 72 hours of admission. Seven of the nine patients ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Feltes TF,Wilcox WD,Feldman WE,Lipskis DJ,Carter SL,Bugg GW

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the surgical procedures proposed for the treatment of fecal incontinence associated with prolapse are associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. We used a modified Thiersch procedure with a Silastic mesh implant (Dow-Corning 501-3) on a series of 12 patients over a period of 2 1/2 years. Nine patien...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Larach SW,Vazquez B

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective study of all patients who had pulmonary embolism during a 37-year span at M. D. Anderson Hospital, we identified 502 patients, 30 of whom had a primary malignancy in the head and neck region. Only five of these patients had a clinically significant pulmonary embolus during the immediate postoperativ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Spires JR,Byers RM,Sanchez ED

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 36-year-old man was found to have severe pulmonary hypertension and a right-to-left shunt secondary to a patent ductus arteriosus. Attempt at surgical closure was unsuccessful. The patient was followed up for 21 years, and his only significant medical problem is leg weakness to moderate exertion. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gann D,Gadgil U,Samet P,Rabinowitz H

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like all types of farming, raising tobacco has many hazards that may lead to injury, disability, or death. Burley tobacco farming is a multistep process that is not highly mechanized. An 8-year emergency department surveillance system in Kentucky identified 674 injury cases related to the production of burley tobacco....

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Struttmann TW,Reed DK

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal mechanisms for metabolic acidosis in selective hypoaldosteronism were investigated in a patient with marked renal insufficiency. Studies demonstrated a distal hydrogen ion secretory defect. Control of elevated serum potassium levels did not normalize urinary acid excretion, but systemic acidosis was improved. Mi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Barbour GL,Keller AW Jr

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium. Skin infection with these organisms is unusual, and the histologic appearance in this case suggested lepromatous leprosy. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Love GL

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 59-year-old woman with an International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics stage IIIB serous psammocarcinoma. Only 12 cases of this rare ovarian neoplasm have been reported previously. These tumors act like borderline tumors and, therefore, do not usually require chemotherapy or radiation...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Powell JL,McDonald TJ,White WC

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A small but significant number of patients make frequent emergency department (ED) visits to multiple EDs within a region. We have a unique health information exchange (HIE) that includes every ED encounter in all hospital systems in our region. Using our HIE we were able to characterize all frequent ED user...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Saef SH,Carr CM,Bush JS,Bartman MT,Sendor AB,Zhao W,Su Z,Zhang J,Marsden J,Arnaud JC,Melvin CL,Lenert L,Moran WP,Mauldin PD,Obeid JS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a patient with portal hypertension and retrocardiac paramediastinal density on upright PA chest x-ray film. Splenoportograms showed this density to be paraesophageal collateral veins. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Frederick HM,Clements JL Jr,Colvin RS

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a malady usually identified during childhood. Prompt surgical correction provides definitive therapy with long-term survival. When not corrected, PDA leads to significant morbidity and mortality, making it a rare condition in the adult population. We report the case of a 44-year-old m...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Chang EE,Diethelm L,Lasky JA,Rubio ER

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A "life stress" scale is applied to the antecedent events motivating 179 patients to seek outpatient psychiatric help. Intake evaluation reports of patients who kept their appointments at the Adult Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic of Vanderbilt University Hospital over a three-month period were reviewed. Almost half of t...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Corney RT,Roback HB

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described clostridial sepsis in a child who presented with an abdominal crisis of sickle cell disease. Clostridium paraputrificum should be included in the list of organisms known to cause sepsis in patients with sickle cell anemia. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Brook I,Gluck RS

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granular cell tumors (GCT) are rare, usually benign neoplasms of Schwann cell origin. Since discovery in 1926, fewer than 80 cases of GCT involving the lung have been reported. This report presents a 45-year-old male who presented with symptoms consistent with chronic pancreatitis associated with night sweats, weight ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Yoon Y,Curry K

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:: Bronchus-associated Lymphoid Tissue (BALT) lymphomas are a rare type of extranodal marginal zone lymphomas. They comprise 1% of lymphomas and more than two-thirds of all primary non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) of the lung. BALT lymphomas arise from the bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue. METHODS:This report d...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Arnaoutakis K,Oo TH

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 66-year-old white male presented with jaundice, pruritus, and a 30-pound weight loss over two months. Physical examination revealed scleral icterus. Laboratory evaluation revealed ALT 161 U/L, AST 290 U/L, alkaline phosphatase 2004 U/L, GGT 2,552 U/L, total bilirubin 10.2 mg/dL, and a carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 1...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lowe D,Lee J,Schade R,Chaudhary A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of an 11-year-old Bolivian boy with parotitis and aseptic meningitis to demonstrate that parainfluenza virus type 2 can cause disseminated infection in a normal child. Parainfluenza virus type 2 was isolated from nasopharyngeal and CSF specimens from the patient and was confirmed to be parainfluen...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Jantausch BA,Wiedermann BL,Jeffries B

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old female patient presented with acute cerebellar ataxia. After ruling out vascular, infectious, metastatic, demyelinating, and medication etiologies, a paraneoplastic origin for her illness was determined. A renal mass was discovered and found to be renal cell carcinoma. Her symptoms resolved after a radic...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ammar H,Brown SH,Malani A,Sheth HK,Sollars EG,Zhou SX,Gupta C,Mughal S

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical presentations of liver abscess, hepatoma, and metastatic tumor to the liver may be quite similar, and procedures such as computerized tomography, radionuclide scanning, and ultrasonography of the liver cannot make a specific diagnosis. Therefore, we compared the clinical presentations of 38 patients seen ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Klotz SA,Penn RL

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the records of patients with cecal volvulus at three affiliated hospitals of Eastern Virginia Medical School to elucidate its incidence, patterns of presentation, and current methods of surgical management. We identified 109 patients in whom a discharge diagnosis of intestinal obstruction due to volvulus w...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Wright TP,Max MH

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed 76 cases of small cell bronchogenic carcinoma seen at the University of South Florida Medical Center. One third of the 55 patients who have subsequently died did so within one month of diagnosis. Thirty-five patients were treated with cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, vincristine, and radiation therapy includi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lyman GH,Hartmann RC,Saba HI,Preston D,Shukovsky L,Jensen R,Knight M

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoxetine is an antidepressant drug with a unique chemical configuration which enhances serotoninergic transmission by inhibiting serotonin uptake. The chronic presence of serotonin in the synaptic cleft reduces postsynaptic receptors, a postulated explanation for its antidepressant efficacy. Comparative studies show...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pary R,Tobias C,Lippmann S

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3-year-old white boy had symptomatic thrombocytopenia after receiving trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole in recommended doses for one week. The platelet count returned to normal soon after the medication was discontinued. In vitro admixing of donor platelets with a sample of the patient's serum demonstrated antiplatelet ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Schwartz RH,Rodriguez WJ,Luban NL

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypersplenism is a known complication of portal hypertension secondary to cirrhosis of the liver. Although thrombocytopenia secondary to hypersplenism does not cause clinically significant hemostatic defect, it may need to be addressed in selective circumstances, such as preoperative preparation for a surgery. This re...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pinto AG,Namyslowski J,Pandya P

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) has been increasingly reported all over the world. In this study, we aimed to investigate the risk factors for the acquisition of nosocomial CRKP infections. METHODS:We conducted a case-control study with data collected from thirty-nine patients with nosocom...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Wu D,Cai J,Liu J

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported a case of intraduodenal duct disruption and duodenal hematoma associated with ERCP. The location of the extravasated contrast material created a confusing picture, which preoperatively was thought to be a pseudocyst, but was found at operation to be a duodenal hematoma. In retrospect, the upper gastro...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sisley JF,Bowden TA,Mansberger AR Jr

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients were treated empirically with anti-platelet agents, prednisone, plasmapheresis, and prostacyclin for the classical clinical syndrome of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). All three patients initially responded, then relapsed after one to 13 months with a clinical picture characteristic of immuno...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Stein RS,Flexner JM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented a case of extensive coiling of both common carotid arteries in which surgical reconstruction on the most severely affected side relieved symptoms of cerebrovascular insufficiency. The underlying lesion is believed to be congenital, and surgical correction is recommended in symptomatic patients. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Daskalakis MK

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00