Follow-up of adolescent psychiatric inpatients.

abstract：:Massive unilateral virginal breast hypertrophy in a 13-year-old girl was treated by right breast reduction, with removal of 2,968 g of breast tissue. A year later, the patient had enlargement of the left breast, and contralateral reduction mammoplasty was done. Two-year follow-up has shown no further enlargement. This...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Netscher DT,Mosharrafa AM,Laucirica R

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:People living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have an increased risk of other infections, including viral hepatitis, which can complicate the treatment and progression of the disease. We sought to characterize Alabama cases of HIV co-infected with hepatitis C virus or hepatitis B virus. METHODS:Usin...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Siza C,Bixler D,Davidson S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keloid management remains controversial, and recurrence and untoward side effects limit the use of many techniques. During a seven-year period, I surgically treated 19 children, aged 3 to 17 (mean 10.5 years), with a total of 28 keloids. After aseptic skin preparation, the interface between the keloid and normal skin ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Golladay ES

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal poisoning can cause a variety of hematologic disorders. Exposure to heavy metals is ubiquitous in the industrial environment and must be considered in the differential diagnosis of many types of anemia. The heavy metals most commonly associated with hematologic toxicity are arsenic and its derivative arsin...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ringenberg QS,Doll DC,Patterson WP,Perry MC,Yarbro JW

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year an estimated 1.3 million Americans suffer eye injuries. There is little information in the literature regarding the prevalence, demographic characteristics, and prognosis of these patients. The Eye Injury Registry of Alabama (EIRA) serves as the first and only statewide system of its kind for the collection ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Morris RE,Witherspoon CD,Helms HA Jr,Feist RM,Byrne JB Jr

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a large randomized prospective clinical trial conducted by the Veterans Administration Co-operative Urological Research Group (VACURG) in 1968 are updated and reevaluated. In this study, placebo, diethylstilbestrol (DES, 5 mg/day), orchiectomy plus placebo, and orchiectomy plus DES were compared in pati...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Jordan WP Jr,Blackard CE,Byar DP

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently managed a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis who had an exceptionally high arterial oxygen tension of 144 mm Hg while breathing room air. This was higher than the calculated alveolar oxygen tension and suggested the impossible situation of an uphill diffusion gradient. We were surprised to find this is a r...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kelton JG,Collins FF

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of death certificates of victims with laryngeal cancer in Oklahoma for the period 1950 to 1970 attempts to corroborate findings of the current literature. Sex-race specific death rates per 100,000 for white, nonwhite, and American Indian populaces displayed a distinct sex and racial pattern: respectively, 38....

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cuchiara AJ,Asal NR

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores the possibility that bed sharing may carry particular risks for children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN). Two cases of CSHCN who may have sustained adverse health effects from bed sharing are described. These two case reports indicate that CSHCN may be particularly susceptible to risks associ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sneed RC

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:We found magnetic resonance imaging helpful in the localization of both an adrenal and an extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma, since these tumors produced a high-intensity "light bulb" image. MRI is an excellent method for localizing pheochromocytomas because it detects adrenal and extra-adrenal pheochromocytomas missed by...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Beland SS,Vesely DL,Arnold WC,Beavers HK,Gilbert SR,Henson GN,Williamson MR

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodular fasciitis is a benign proliferation of fibroblasts and myofibroblasts in the subcutaneous tissues. The lesions are generally small and solitary, arising commonly in the upper extremities of adults and in the head and neck region of infants and children. A history of trauma may precede these reactive lesions, b...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Zuber TJ,Finley JL

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case report and review of the literature are reported concerning the relationship of intracardiac thrombosis and antiphospholipid antibody syndromes. Nine cases are identified, divided into three categories: three patients had antiphospholipid syndrome associated with systemic lupus erythematosus, three had primary ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Baum RA,Jundt JW

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 29-year-old woman who had acute cytomegalovirus hepatitis superimposed on previously unrecognized chronic hepatitis B infection. We then review the diagnostic approach to acute hepatitis and positive hepatitis B surface antigen. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Zuschke CA,Herrera JL,Pettyjohn FS

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A man who received therapeutic irradiation to limited areas of each lung for intrapulmonary Hodgkin's disease developed bronchioalveolar carcinoma in the same areas more than 20 years later. This is the first report of a malignant process developing in areas of the lung that had been previously irradiated for treatmen...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lesser M,Chang JC,Yoo OH,Roswit B

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A septic course suggestive of intra-abdominal abscess followed surgery in a small child with a perforated appendix. Usual diagnostic studies, fluoroscopy, and rectal and wound exploration failed to localized an abscess. The use of gallium 67 scanning accurately localized multiple abscesses which were successfully drai...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Aycock TM,Graivier L,Lugo C,McConnell RW

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented the case of a 32-year-old man who sustained blunt trauma to the chest in a motor vehicle accident. Plain roentgenograms showed a widened mediastinum and pneumomediastinum, and an esophagogram with water-soluble contrast material showed an esophageal laceration at the T-4 level. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Carter MP,Long RF,Pellegrini RA,Wynn RA

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactulose is a poorly absorbed synthetic disaccharide frequently used in the treatment of portasystemic encephalopathy. Because lactulose syrup contains small amounts of absorbable sugars, it may cause hyperglycemia in diabetic individuals, but is usually well tolerated. We report the case of a patient with diet-contr...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kirkman MS,Zimmerman DR,Filippini SA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of an adrenal incidentalomas in the setting of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency. The adrenal mass was shown to be a cavernous hemangioma. Such neoplasms are rare but have the risk of retroperitoneal hemorrhage and may be difficult to differentiate from malignant ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pignatelli D,Vendeira P,Cabral AC

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-six cases of serologically documented Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) from North Carolina are reviewed. Gastrointestinal manifestations were present in 80% of these patients. Because other common expressions of RMSF occasionally do not accompany severe gastrointestinal dysfunction, improper diagnosis and the...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Middleton DB

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, screening has largely failed to fulfill the hope that early detection would lead to more effective early treatment and to improved health status in the population served. The future role of screening can be much more positive but only if (1) screening is directed only at diseases and conditions for which earl...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： North AF Jr

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and hyperhomocysteinemia are both associated with increased lipid peroxidation (oxidative stress). This may contribute to the accelerated vascular disease associated with these conditions. It is not known whether the coexistence of elevated homocysteine levels ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Fonseca VA,Stone A,Munshi M,Baliga BS,Aljada A,Thusu K,Fink L,Dandona P

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of brain stem infarction after chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine is presented. Proposed mechanisms and sites of possible arterial injury are discussed. A diagnosis of vertebral artery occlusion was made using conventional brachial angiography. Digital intravenous angiography, a relatively new and ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Braun IF,Pinto RS,De Filipp GJ,Lieberman A,Pasternack P,Zimmerman RD

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of treating 238 transverse, longitudinal, and osteochondral fractures of the patella are reviewed. Of these, 89 patients had partial patellectomy and extensor mechanism reconstruction. After an average follow-up of four years, functional results have been excellent; there have been no late patellectomies and t...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Andrews JR,Hughston JC

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a recent ten-year period, 20 patients were treated for nonpenetrating, small-bowel trauma requiring resection. Despite the relative infrequency of this injury, jejunoileal trauma must be suspected in all patients sustaining blunt force to the abdomen. Physical signs suggesting major intra-abdominal wounds usual...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Maull KI,Reath DB

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2003, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control established the Carolina Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance System (CARSS), an active sentinel surveillance system for antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae. METHODS:CARSS includes twelve hospitals. Each hospital was assigned...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Dauner DG,Roberts DF,Kotchmar GS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eikenella corrodens was isolated from an orally contaminated hand wound which resulted in cellulitis, osteomyelitis, and arthritis. E corrodens is a gram-negative, microaerophilic bacillus which only lately has received attention as a possible pathogen. The organism grows characteristically as small, corroding, or pit...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Johnson SM,Pankey GA

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amniotic fluid embolism is an almost universally fatal complication of pregnancy. We have presented a case and reviewed the literature concerning this rare but catastrophic problem. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hardin L,Fox LS,O'Quinn AG

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical entity of progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS, or scleroderma) has remained unchanged since Osler's first description in 1892. Several related or overlap syndromes have now been recognized, which may afford some insight into etiologic events in the development of PSS. As yet, the cause of PSS remains elus...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cunningham PH,Andrews BS,Davis JS 4th

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal antimicrobial therapy for viridans streptococcal endocarditis remains controversial. Rifampin was bactericidal at less than 0.2 micrograms/ml for ten strains of viridans streptococci isolated from patients with endocarditis. Administration of rifampin to one endocarditis patient already receiving penicillin an...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Stamm AM,Phillips EK

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00