Abstract:
:The scapulocostal syndrome is an often encountered yet infrequently diagnosed cause of back and/or shoulder pain. Results of examination and treatment in the three cases described point out the necessary differential diagnosis to effectively screen these groups of patients from among those with more complex diseases.
journal_name
South Med Jjournal_title
Southern medical journalauthors
Cohen CAdoi
10.1097/00007611-198004000-00010subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1980-04-01 00:00:00pages
433-4, 437issue
4eissn
0038-4348issn
1541-8243journal_volume
73pub_type
杂志文章abstract:OBJECTIVES:Osteopenia is considerably more common than osteoporosis and accounts for most of the fracture burden in women older than 50 years. It is uncertain when to initiate treatment in osteopenia. We sought to determine in women with osteopenia what effect transitioning to lower categories had on subsequent fractur...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000410
更新日期:2016-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Using a phylogenic classification of the spine, one can identify precisely the numerical location of any vertebra or disc, including vertebrae with junctional anomalies at transitional zones. Such precision permitted comparisons of myelographic reports of sites of disc disease with the actual levels of extradural defo...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197909000-00017
更新日期:1979-09-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00007611-199108000-00026
更新日期:1991-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::A retrospective review of all admissions to the University of Kentucky Medical Center from 1977 to 1987 revealed six persons in whom splenic vein thrombosis could be documented. The patients had either upper gastrointestinal bleeding from gastroesophageal varices or abdominal pain. Pancreatic disease was present in fi...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00007611-199004000-00014
更新日期:1990-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Giant cell arteritis has been thought to occur only in white patients. There have been several recent reports of this disorder to blacks, however, and this case of biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis in a black patient indicates the diagnosis should be considered in any elderly patient with typical symptoms regardless ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197909000-00045
更新日期:1979-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::In an attempt to prevent morbidity and mortality in carotid endarterectomy, we monitored 47 operations with intraoperative EEG to determine which patients should have a shunt during endarterectomy. The EEG was recorded for up to five minutes during test carotid cross-clamping. When EEG asymmetry between the cerebral h...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197908000-00018
更新日期:1979-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 54-year-old man deliberately drank a potassium-gold cyanide solution that contained approximately 1,650 mg of potassium cyanide. He survived after treatment with the Lilly antidote kit and hyperbaric oxygen. ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-199408000-00010
更新日期:1994-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::This article first reviews the evidence for and against chronic opioid therapy. Evidence supporting the opioid responsiveness of chronic pain, including neuropathic pain, includes multiple randomized trials conducted over months (up to 8 months). Observational studies are conducted for longer, and many also support op...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.smj.0000223946.19256.17
更新日期:2006-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::An 18-year-old girl with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (Sipple's syndrome) had a large intraventricular mass that proved to be a thrombus. She had no apparent precipitating factor for intracavitary thrombus formation. This is the first reported case of multiple endocrine neoplasia associated with ventricular thr...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2000-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Review of 185 consecutive Muller total hip arthroplasties five to nine years after operation showed that 14 patients had died and that three deaths were directly related to the surgery. Of these, 37 patients (54 hips) could not be located and were excluded. Another patient, nonambulatory for an unrelated cause, was al...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1982-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Valvular heart disease accounts for considerable morbidity and some mortality among patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). To determine the prevalence and severity of valvular and perivalvular abnormalities, including valvular thickening, stenosis, calcification, regurgitation, and mitral annular calcification ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-199501000-00009
更新日期:1995-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Patients with a postpanic anxiety disorder (PPAD) have panic attacks less frequently than patients with a panic disorder. A PPAD must be suspected when a physician notes the following: persistent somatic complaints despite repeatedly normal results of physical examinations and laboratory tests, reluctance to engage in...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198604000-00003
更新日期:1986-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Malacoplakia is a granulomatous disease of unknown cause often associated with a coliform urinary infection. It is occasionally a self-limiting disease with diverse clinical presentations and roentgenographic appearances. The importance of a differential diagnosis which considers malignancy is emphasized. A rare insta...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197703000-00029
更新日期:1977-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The clinical, pathologic, and roentgenographic features of macrodactylia fibrolipomatosis described are based on 40 cases from the literature and five cases seen by the authors. This condition previously has been described as macrodactyly, megalodactyly, macrodystrophia lipomatosa, dactylomegaly, and local gigantism. ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197612000-00015
更新日期:1976-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::I have reported three case of paraurethral cysts in female neonates. These are uncommon lesions, and urologic evaluation is required to differentiate them from ectopic ureteroceles, urethral diverticula, or paraurethral tumors. Histologic appearance of the cyst epithelium identifies the embryologic origin. The cysts e...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198506000-00035
更新日期:1985-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::I reviewed factors contributing to diagnostic delay in 12 children who had symptoms of meningitis for more than three days before diagnosis. Prior antibiotic therapy was more common in children with delayed diagnosis. Parental factors included possible neglect in one child and passivity and failure to recognize the se...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198409000-00014
更新日期:1984-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The purpose of this review article is to selectively examine research that was designed to evaluate the relation between religious involvement and health among older people. Four facets of religion are examined in detail: church-based social support, religious coping, forgiveness, and prayer. In addition, potential ne...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.SMJ.0000146488.39500.03
更新日期:2004-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::A case of perforation and bleeding from a diverticulum of the second portion of the duodenum in a patient with recurrent pancreatitis is presented. Upper gastrointestinal roentgenogram revealed an abnormal tract and retroperitoneal air arising from the diverticulum. The fistulous tract communicated with pancreas. Blee...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197706000-00037
更新日期:1977-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::An infected echinococcal cyst of the liver was diagnosed in a 48-year-old male immigrant from Spain. After preoperative treatment with mebendazole, microscopic examination of the operative cyst contents showed no viable scoleces or brood capsules of Echinococcus. We recommend the preoperative use of mebendazole in the...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1986-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Diabetic peripheral neuropathy affects 5 to 50% of people with diabetes in the United States. It is a progressive disorder that results in a gradual decrease in peripheral sensation and eventually complete loss of sensation. Patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy are challenging to treat because of intolerable a...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.SMJ.0000060886.57804.2E
更新日期:2003-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1097/01.smj.0000232968.56740.e1
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The diagnosis of granular acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) can be problematic as the cytoplasmic granules found in many blast cells may mimic those seen in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). This rare variant of B-cell ALL is more commonly diagnosed in children, but may occur in adults. We report a case of granular B...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.smj.0000231247.33762.f3
更新日期:2006-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) plays a major role in blood pressure regulation and is thus an important therapeutic target in the management of hypertension. Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), which interrupt RAAS overactivity by blocking a specific receptor that mediates the pathogenic activity of...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181e1e2da
更新日期:2010-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::An unusual volar and radial perilunate transscaphoid fracture dislocation is reported. Treatment of perilunate transscaphoid fracture dislocations by closed reduction often produces a poor result. Early open reduction may be followed by a good result, but if open reduction is impossible, proximal row carpectomy is adv...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197507000-00025
更新日期:1975-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Of 24 elderly patients with Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia confirmed by transtracheal aspiration, six had concomitant infection with gram-negative aerobic bacilli. All six patients were elderly men with underlying cardiopulmonary disease. Three had had recent prior episodes of gram-negative pneumonia and four had ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198102000-00004
更新日期:1981-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:This study examined patient perceptions and attitudes toward various aspects of the male and female physician's professional appearance in the family practice setting. METHODS:Four hundred ninety-six patients from two family practice clinics in Knoxville, Tennessee, completed a valid and reliable questionna...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.SMJ.0000077011.58103.C1
更新日期:2003-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Three members of a family with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome had intussusception due to intestinal hamartomas. In addition, the grandfather had carcinoma of the jejunum, and the granddaughter had benign ovarian sex cord/stromal tumor causing sexual precocity. Benign and malignant tumors, not often associated with Peutz-Jeghe...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-199110000-00011
更新日期:1991-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198305000-00046
更新日期:1983-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::We have presented a case of tracheobronchitis due to C pseudodiphtheriticum in a patient with COPD who was treated with prednisone and apparently was not otherwise immunocompromised. Chronic lung disease seems to predispose to infection with C pseudodiphtheriticum; it can also occur in the immunocompetent host. This o...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00007611-199104000-00026
更新日期:1991-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::A hallmark of the clinical syndrome of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is evidence of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia. The presence of schistocytes on the peripheral blood smear, elevated plasma lactic dehydrogenase, and decreased haptoglobin concentration are used as evidence of microangiopathic hemolytic...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.SMJ.0000136231.83564.F6
更新日期:2005-03-01 00:00:00