Unicompartmental replacement for medial compartment gonarthrosis: preliminary report.

abstract：:In a series of 60 consecutive patients in whom Hickman catheters were placed for treatment of malignancy, four properly positioned catheter tips migrated secondarily from the superior vena cava to the ipsilateral jugular vein 2, 4, 21, and 25 days after placement. Three of the four patients had begun to have catheter ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Krasnow SH,Rhodes G,Boyer M,Citron ML,Gaspar O,Johnston-Early A,Cohen MH

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initial concern about the possible effects of global warming on infections has declined with the realization that the spread of tropical diseases is likely to be limited and controllable. However, the direct effects of heat already cause substantial numbers of deaths among vulnerable people in the summer. Action to pr...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Keatinge WR,Donaldson GC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topotecan HCl is an antitumor drug exhibiting topoisomerase 1-inhibitory activity. Topotecan is used in the treatment of metastatic carcinoma of the ovary and as second-line treatment of small-cell lung cancer. Reported dose-limiting adverse reactions to topotecan are primarily hematologic in nature. To date, only one...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Edgerton CC,Gilman M,Roth BJ

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy are the treatment modalities of choice in lymphomas. Except for Burkitt's tumor, surgery is usually indicated only when percutaneous biopsy fails to establish the histologic diagnosis. We have described a patient with glomerulonephritis and anasarca secondary to an IgM-producing p...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Osguthorpe JD,Rice D,Adkins WY

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin and soft tissue necrosis is an uncommon but increasingly recognized complication of coumarin anticoagulant therapy. A patient is described with extensive involvement of all four extremities and the nose, requiring amputation of three extremities. The characteristic clinical features of the disorder are reviewed, ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Scandling J,Walker BK

更新日期：1980-11-01 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：:A controlled trial of treatment of chronic osteomyelitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus compared nafcillin alone with nafcillin plus rifampin for a six-week period. Treatment was well tolerated, the only adverse effect being mild neutropenia in four of 18 patients; no toxicity was observed from rifampin. Eight of ten...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Norden CW,Bryant R,Palmer D,Montgomerie JZ,Wheat J

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One key component of human rabies prevention is the use of postexposure prophylaxis (PEP). No information is routinely available to evaluate the appropriateness of this intervention. METHODS:A survey queried county health departments regarding rabies PEP administered during July through September in 1997 an...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Conti L,Wiersma S,Hopkins R

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to the increasing care needs of geriatric patients and attendant hospital costs, the Nashville Veterans Administration Medical Center, which has 393 beds and admits 8400 patients annually, initiated an Intermediate Care Service in 1988. A geriatric team was formed, sharing staff and resources from existing...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hauser B,Robinson J,Powers JS,Laubacher MA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocrine metabolic emergencies are common clinical entities seen by most health care professionals in acute care medicine. Except for cardiopulmonary arrest, few situations require such rapid institution of immediate drug therapy to reverse life-threatening metabolic imbalances. To safely guide patients through these...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rush DR,Hamburger SC

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agenesis of the gallbladder is a rare anomaly believed to be an organogenetic failure. This is the third instance of familial agenesis of the gallbladder reported in the literature. The diagnosis of agenesis of the gallbladder can only be made during exploratory celiotomy and must be confirmed by an intraoperative nee...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sterchi JM,Baine RW,Myers RT

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) is a tick-borne disease transmitted during the summer months in the mid-Atlantic, southeastern and south-central United States. A large proportion of patients presenting with ehrlichiosis must be hospitalized because of the severity of their presenting signs, symptoms and lab abnorma...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Prince LK,Shah AA,Martinez LJ,Moran KA

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) encompasses the variants of acute immune-mediated polyneuropathies usually preceded by an infection. A few case reports have associated GBS to neoplastic diseases. It remains unclear whether these are merely coincidental or represent paraneoplastic phenomena. The clinical features of GBS ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Naveed S,Okoli K,Hollingsworth J,Kasmani R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Any terrorist attack using weapons of mass destruction will result in substantial psychological trauma and stress. Primary care and emergency clinics will likely see patients who have stress-related emotional or physical symptoms, or exacerbations of preexisting health concerns. Significant psychological and behaviora...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lacy TJ,Benedek DM

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell trait is present in about 8% of black Americans, and clinically significant sickling disorders are common in this population. These disorders can be accurately defined by combinations of quantitative hemoglobin electrophoresis at alkaline pH, citrate agar electrophoresis, solubility tests for sickle hemogl...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Steinberg MH,Adams JG 3rd

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poisoning by antimony led to the death of a great individual in English literature. This case report gives as much of the history of the illness as can be found and tells a little about the individual. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Miller JM

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a cocaine user who presented with polymorphonuclear pleocytosis in cerebrospinal fluid mimicking bacterial meningitis. Thorough investigation of the cerebrospinal fluid did not reveal evidence of bacteria or fungi. Clinical deterioration was observed in spite of empiric treatment with antibiotics...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Alexopoulou A,Deutsch M,Dourakis SP

更新日期：2003-09-01 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

authors： Goodhart GL

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella bronchiseptica bacteremia is often associated with various infection in animals. The majority of B bronchiseptica infections reported in humans are cases of pneumonia. Very few cases have been reported in patients with a history of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The patient described herein, wh...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Mazumder SA,Cleveland KO

更新日期：2010-09-01 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

authors： Byer JA,Henzel JH,Dexter JD

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I have described two patients who had recurrent spontaneous myoclonic jerking in the alcohol withdrawal state. These movements were distinguishable clinically and electroencephalographically from partial seizures and epilepsia partialis continua. The jerking did not respond to anticonvulsants but resolved as the withd...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Drake ME Jr

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of peripheral diseases in diabetics of different age groups, the role of color Doppler in peripheral arterial disease in diabetics, and to compare the prevalence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in diabetics taking different therapy modalities. METHO...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bembi V,Singh S,Singh P,Aneja GK,Arya TV,Arora R

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extreme bilateral protrusio acetabuli is an unusual complication of hematologic disease. We have described a patient with sickle cell anemia who had this complication probably as a result of osteopenia. Thus sickle cell anemia should be added to the list of potential causes of protrusio acetabuli. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rijke AM,Pope TL Jr,Keats TE

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to determine what factors would be useful in making a decision to do bronchoscopy to look for an obstructing carcinoma in cases of pneumonia. The study showed that in pneumonia limited to one lobe of the lung, which occurs in a heavy smoker over 50 years of age, and which does not have comple...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： McDowell DE

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Screening mammography, particularly for women in their 40s, has become a confusing issue for many physicians. Recent scientific and political controversies regarding screening guidelines have added to this confusion. METHODS:Many randomized clinical trials have shown the benefits of mammographic screening f...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Reichle JL

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a retrospective study to determine the sensitivity of mammography in detecting breast cancer arising in women with augmented breasts. Of eight women with breast implants in whom breast cancer developed, six had mammograms before biopsy. Only two of the six cancers were identified mammographically (sensiti...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Douglas KP,Bluth EI,Sauter ER,McKinnon WM,Bergeron RB,Merritt CR,Sullivan MA,Finley JM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abscess of the spleen is uncommon and potentially lethal, but until recently it was rarely diagnosed except by exploratory celiotomy or at autopsy. Now, with the advent of radionuclide scanning, ultrasonography, and selective angiography, earlier diagnosis is possible in most cases. We report a case of traumatic absce...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Brown JJ,Sumner TE,Crowe JE,Shaffner LD

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guar gum is a high polymer carbohydrate that undergoes considerable expansion and thickening when placed in water. Because of this property, guar gum has been used in "weight loss" tablets marketed by several pharmaceutical manufacturers. These tablets undergo expansion in the stomach and are expected to cause early s...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Halama WH,Mauldin JL

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the available clinical and pathologic information suggests that the biologic behavior of prostatic carcinoma can be characterized by one of three different tumor-growth kinetic curves. Failure to identify the biologic potential of the tumor, as indicated by the pattern of its growth curve, can result in in...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Johnson DE,von Eschenbach AC

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fiberoptic gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed on 52 patients between the ages of 2 months and 16 years. The procedures were safely and easily done with premedications consisting of meperidine, promethazine, and chlorpromazine, and atropine, with diazepam given at the time of the procedure. Fiberoptic endoscopy w...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Graham DY,Klish WJ,Ferry GD,Sabel JS

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00