Carcinoma in situ of the vulva: 24 years' experience in southwest Florida.

abstract：:Despite recent pharmacologic advances in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, the disease remains incurable. Effective disease management ultimately lies in the hands of the individual patient, who must take responsibility for key health behaviors related to bone health. One behavior modification strategy tha...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gold DT,Silverman SL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While in most states information physicians obtain from the about patients is confidential and cannot be disclosed without the patient's permission, a recent California Supreme Court decision affirms that when the doctor reasonably believes his patient can cause violent harm to third persons, he had an overriding duty...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bunch PL,Dowben C

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of Candida glabrata liver abscess and fungemia complicating severe calculus cholecystitis in a 64-year-old female patient who had no history of immunosuppression or diabetes mellitus. The patient underwent cholecystectomy, resection of liver abscess, and systemic antifungal therapy using micafung...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lima R,Shams W,Kalra S,Borthwick T

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of inflammatory carcinoma of the breast remains a therapeutic dilemma because of two basic conceptual problems: local control and systemic micrometastatic disease. Appropriate management requires a multidisciplinary approach involving radiation therapy, surgery, and medical oncology. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Doss LL,Kardinal CG,Memula N

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of the needle-catheter feeding jejunostomy at Richland Memorial Hospital and the Dorn Veterans Administration Hospital, both clinical teaching institutions of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, has been evaluated in 114 patients ranging from 20 to 90 years old. The results of this survey span a 3...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Strickland GF,Greene FL

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine vitamin D status in children with spina bifida (SB). METHODS:Charts of all patients with SB at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Houston, Texas, seen between July 2011 and June 2013 were retrospectively reviewed. Daily intake of milk, vitamins, amount of screen time, and time spent outdoors ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Mazur LJ,Wilsford LD,Rosas L,Sullivan E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a 6-day-old male infant who presented with Neisseria gonorrhoeae conjunctivitis and a scalp abscess. Delivery was complicated by rupture of the membranes 24 hours before delivery and fetal monitoring for four hours. The rare scalp abscesses caused by gonococci cleared with penicillin therapy. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Brook I,Rodriguez WJ,Controni G,Gold B

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transition of care between pediatric and adult medicine is a challenging time for patients and physicians. This longitudinal process encompasses much more than the physical transfer of a patient between providers. Established transition of care processes and literature exist for many chronic disease populations, b...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Graves L,Leung S,Raghavendran P,Mennito S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a 38-year-old woman with a lesion of the cervix found on routine physical examination. The lesion proved to be a primary leiomyosarcoma of the cervix. Despite radiation therapy, surgery, and chemotherapy, the tumor recurred and grew relentlessly. She is alive with disease at two years seven months af...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Jawalekar KS,Zacharopoulou M,McCaffrey RM

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis (LIP) is a rare complication of AIDS in adults. Patients with AIDS and LIP are at high risk for bacterial pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Staphylococcus aureus. We have described an HIV-positive patient with LIP complicated by recurrent pneumo...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Harley W,Horton JM,Corbin RP

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new era in the treatment of immune-mediated inflammatory disorders has begun with the clinical availability of anticytokine therapy. Biological agents that are currently available include 3 agents that decrease the activity of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (infliximab, adalimumab, etanercept) and an interleukin-1 rece...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Efthimiou P,Markenson JA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While opioids are regarded as the mainstay of chronic pain management, their use is controversial in the minds of many primary care physicians due to clinical concerns about dependence, abuse, and addiction and medicolegal concerns regarding state and federal regulatory authorities. For patients with moderate to moder...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Nicholson B,Passik SD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of recurrent Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) of the upper extremity, treated aggressively with wide local excision, regional lymphadenectomy, and immediate reconstruction. Five years after surgery, there is no clinical or diagnostic evidence of locoregional recurrence or distant disease. The patient's upp...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Metzinger SE,Wolfer RS,Disa JJ,Kupersmith JE,Robertson BC

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axillary and palmar hyperhidrosis are featured prominently in the literature, but no previous studies have detailed a treatment regimen for specific excessive localized sweating of the face and scalp. In this report, a patient was treated for this condition with a combination of clonidine hydrochloride (0.3 mg to 0.4 ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Torch EM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain is a tax levied on man for the privilege of life upon this planet. Some are taxed lightly and others are taxed heavily, but all are taxed. To relieve this stress, from time immemorial man has taken analgesics. In modern times, if home medication fails, professional consultation is available. The important questio...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Krantz JC Jr,White JM

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of postoperative death due to unsuspected pheochromocytoma are presented. Both patients exhibited signs and symptoms preoperatively which might have been attributable to a pheochromocytoma. These reports serve as a reminder of the potentially fatal consequences of inadequate evaluation of hypertensive patien...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cross DA,Meyer JS

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of considering organic diseases when evaluating catatonic patients is illustrated by two cases of akinetic parkinsonism in which the patients became catatonic, with waxy flexibility. The catatonic syndrome occurs in association with a variety of lesions that may affect any level of the central nervous s...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Patterson JF

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although skin testing with ubiquitous antigens is widely employed to assess delayed hypersensitivity, little is known about the effect of geographic location on the frequency of skin test reactions to given antigens. To assess skin test reactivity in the mid-South, 82 hospitalized patients and 68 normal controls had s...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Stimpson PG,Paty JG Jr,Hudson T,Lieberman P

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The literature shows that food insecurity (FI) can negatively affect the trajectory of many chronic illnesses. FI can be acutely severe for older adults, but screening for FI is not regularly performed in the hospital setting. Our goal was to develop a tool to screen for FI upon hospital discharge to identify...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： King A,Roofeh R,Nouryan C,Zhang M,Carney MT

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the advent of ultrasonography, perinephric fluid collection can be easily diagnosed and confirmed by fine needle aspiration. In the past these cases sometimes went undiagnosed for several months. We did fine needle aspiration under the guidance of ultrasonography in 16 patients without complications. The aspirant...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Elyaderani MK,Moncman J

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brown recluse spider bites are usually self-limited skin lesions that infrequently progress to bullae, ulceration, and scarring. We treated a patient with a documented brown recluse bite who had recurring lesions resembling pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) that persisted for months. Three other patients referred to Vanderbil...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rees RS,Fields JP,King LE Jr

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the accurate assessment of blood loss at vaginal delivery is clinically important in terms of maternal morbidity and mortality, the quantity is usually underestimated. We present a simple, practical, and convenient method of quantitating blood loss at vaginal delivery. The method of vaginal delivery (spontane...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hill JA,Fadel HE,Nelson MC,Nelson RM,Nelson GH

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a patient with vaccinia necrosum after smallpox vaccination for persistent herpes labialis. The patient eventually recovered after surgical resection of the lesion and multiple courses of vaccinia immune globulin and methisazone. This report emphasizes the needless risks of vaccinating patients with ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Funk EA,Strausbaugh LJ

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pectus excavatum is relatively uncommon. Our experience with 177 children during a 15-year period produced changes in our surgical technique, which now includes a small transverse incision, minimal subcutaneous flap elevation, a muscle-relaxing incision over the fifth costal cartilage, complete resection of involved c...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Golladay ES,Wagner CW

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appendicovesical fistula is an uncommon condition usually occurring in boys and young men and associated with chronic urinary tract infection. Diagnosis is based on cystoscopic findings that may be confirmed by a retrograde study. Treatment by appendectomy is usually successful. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Carson CC 3rd,Malek RS

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for sickle cell disease is carried by 8% of the African-American population in the United States. The primary care physician is often called upon to recognize and treat one of the major sequelae of sickle cell disease--vaso-occlusive pain crisis. An injectable nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug has recently ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sanders DY,Severance HW,Pollack CV Jr

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Decreased bone mineral density has been found in the advanced stages of various lung diseases. Limited data are available about prevalence and risk factors for osteoporosis/osteopenia (OP) in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). METHODS:Patients with PAH (either idiopathic or secondary to scleroderma [SSC-...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Malik N,McCarthy K,Minai OA

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In children, intramural duodenal hematomas resulting from blunt abdominal trauma are generally managed nonoperatively with nasogastric suction and parenteral nutrition. Experience with three cases in which this form of treatment failed caused us to reappraise its benefits and results. Consequently, we now recommend su...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Thoms CA,Ricketts RR

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From our retrospective review of 30 patients having hepatic resection, we have made the following conclusions: (1) Hepatic resection is an uncommon procedure. (2) The majority of liver injuries require only drainage or suture ligation and drainage. (3) Midline incision, early arterial occlusion, and resectional debrid...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lang NP,Westbrook KC,Read RC

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The authors sought to explore patients' views about discussing spiritual issues with primary care physicians, including perceived barriers to and facilitators of discussions. METHODS:The study was a qualitative, semistructured interview of 10 chronically or terminally ill patients who were deliberately sele...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ellis MR,Campbell JD

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00