Primary carcinoid tumor of the testis.

abstract：:We studied etiologic factors important in colonization of 179 central venous catheters (CVCs) in patients randomized into group 1 (who received daily topical applications of povidone-iodine) or group 2 (who received only dry dressing changes). Colonization rates of CVC tips were similar between group 1 (18/84 or 21%) ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Prager RL,Silva J Jr

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings had frequent seizures from the second and third day of life until one week and seven months, respectively. The mother, grandmothers, and three other family members were similarly affected. Known causes of neonatal seizures were excluded. The condition is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. Its etiol...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Giacoia GP

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to evaluate whether there is a sex difference in the analgesic response to mu versus kappa opioids in the management of acute moderate to severe pain of injury in the emergency department. METHODS:The study was a randomized, double-blind, clinical trial comparing the prototypical mu-receptor agoni...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Miller PL,Ernst AA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient presented with scrotal cellulitis as a complication of infusing 900 ml saline into his scrotum. He had obtained a kit along with explicit instructions for performing the infusion through the Internet. This practice may be more widespread than expected. An Internet search revealed many references to this proc...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Summers JA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated the risk factors for gallstone disease in Taiwan. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed medical records of patients receiving periodic health examination at China Medical College Hospital from January to December 2000. A detailed history, physical examination, biochemical measurements, and abd...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lai SW,Ng KC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whipple disease (WD) is a rare disease caused by Tropheryma whipplei. The classic profile of the patient is that of a middle-aged man presenting with fever, chronic diarrhea, and arthralgias. Extragastrointestinal manifestations are not rare. A high degree of clinical suspicion for the disease is needed in atypical ca...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Basagiannis CS,Panagoulias GS,Tentolouris N,Basoukeas S,Sambaziotis D,Ladas SD

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risks of morbidity and mortality associated with transfusion are so great that no transfusion should be given until it is decided that it is absolutely necessary and then only with the utmost care. The unfavorable effects of transfusion reviewed are: hemolytic reaction; bacterial contamination; febrile reaction du...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Shaffer AW

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty consecutive patients having left ventricular (LV) aneurysmectomy were evaluated for surgical risk predictors and were then followed up after operation. Factors evaluated included age, time since last myocardial infarction, NYHA classification, principal indication for surgery, LV end diastolic pressure, LV "A" w...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lee GT Jr,Newton MC,Crosby IK,Burwell LR,Wellons HA

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technic incorporating the simultaneous elevation of multiple adjacent thoracoabdominal pedicale flaps, based in opposite directions, has been successfully used on four patients with extensive degloving injuries of the hand. In all cases, the hand was later divided into individual digits. A five-year follow-up of thr...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cowen NJ,Giannotto RP

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:No standard therapeutic option exists for men with prostate cancer who have failed local therapy, have no gross metastatic disease, and whose only manifestation of disease is a rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level. Soy products are able to affect PSA kinetics in some men with prostate cancer, and this...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Joshi M,Agostino NM,Gingrich R,Drabick JJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 1979 to October 1986, 86 patients with surgically resectable adenocarcinoma of the rectum or rectosigmoid were treated with adjuvant radiotherapy consisting of preoperative 2,400 cGy (22 patients), preoperative 4,000 cGy (14 patients), "sandwich" technique (27 patients), and postoperative irradiation (23 ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rahman SM,McKibben BT,Hardy TG Jr,Schloss CD,Cho CC,Hartmann RF,Aguilar PS,Khanduja KS,Stewart WR

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parameters for significant risk of aspiration have been defined as a gastric pH less than 2.5 and/or a volume greater than 25 ml. We investigated the effects of metoclopramide and cimetidine, alone and in combination, on the pH and volume of gastric contents of patients taking nothing by mouth before general anesthesi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gipson SL,Stovall TG,Elkins TE,Crumrine RS

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a family with X-linked myotubular myopathy that was clinically manifest in the neonatal period and compared it with the clinical picture and course of the disease in similar reported cases. Clinical expression of the disease in the newborn period is not always lethal. Despite a fatal outcome in the f...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Giacoia GP,Hale JE

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 75-year-old woman suffering from symptomatic cholelithiasis was admitted to our hospital for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). Intraoperatively, because of severe inflammation and dense adhesions in the region of the Calot triangle and bleeding arising from the porta hepatis which obscured the operating fi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Felekouras E,Megas T,Michail OP,Papaconstantinou I,Nikiteas N,Dimitroulis D,Griniatsos J,Tsechpenakis A,Kouraklis G

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continued improvements in computer technology have led to significant enhancement of clinical teaching. We describe a "digital toolbox" consisting of personally accessible hardware and software products to assist in clinical teaching. The areas covered are computer-assisted diagnosis, digitization and display of clini...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sandroni S,McGee J

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with blunt hepatic injury can safely be managed nonoperatively if they show hemodynamic stability. Transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) is a useful adjunct in the treatment of patients who show evidence of continued hemorrhage or who have pooling of contrast material on computed tomography (CT). In these...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Harper HC 3rd,Maull KI

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 1,027 healthy men over age 40 were screened for prostate cancer with digital rectal examinations (DRE) and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels. Findings were abnormal in 189 (18%). PSA levels alone were abnormal (> 4.0 ng/mL) in 111 men (12%), 60 men (8%) had abnormal DRE and normal PSA, and 18 men h...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bretton PR

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:We present this case to emphasize the potentially fatal outcome of supraventricular tachycardia in infancy, particularly if it has been undiagnosed for several days. Certainly, careful monitoring needs to take place during any attempt at cardioversion or any other noxious stimulation of the patient. Bicarbonate therap...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Callanan DL,Bloom KR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Remodeling of the endocrine pancreas, caused by the deleterious effects of amylin as it is co-synthesized, co-packaged, and co-secreted with insulin, gives clinicians and researchers cause to ponder. METHODS:A literature search was done, and relevant publications and texts on amylin and islet amyloid polype...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hayden MR,Tyagi SC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary small cell undifferentiated carcinomas (SCUCs) are unusual tumors of the colon and rectum. Histologically, these lesions represent a spectrum of neuroendocrine differentiation, with oat cell carcinoma being the most primitive subtype and carcinoid tumors being the most differentiated. This observation is suppo...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Yaziji H,Broghamer WL Jr

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clotrimazole is a new antifungal agent which is effective topically in dermatophytosis, cutaneous candidiasis, and tinea vesicolor. The authors performed a controlled double-blind clinical trial comparing topical clotrimazole with its vehicle in the treatment of 66 patients with dermatophytic infections of the skin of...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Smith EB,Graham JL,Ulrich JA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asbestos is a versatile fibrous mineral that can cause lung disease and death. Asbestosis, benign pleural disease, lung cancer, and mesothelioma can all result from inhaling asbestos. The history of disease and exposure risks are discussed. The difficult assessment of risk and the long latency period for development o...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Westerfield BT

更新日期：1992-06-01 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：:A 76-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who developed P multocida pneumonia and bacteremia has been described. The infection was treated with antibiotics, and the patient recovered. Pasteurella multocida is known to infect many species of animals. The instances of human infection due to this organ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Milder JE,Hall NK,Finley RA

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two cases of drug-induced hypertriglyceridemia, one associated with interferon alfa-2b and the other with asparaginase, each of which is mediated through a different mechanism. Hypertriglyceridemia caused by these medications is not listed as an adverse reaction in the Physicians' Desk Reference, one of th...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Keung YK,Rizk R,Wu XY,Cobos E

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Between 1995 and 1997, a tuberculosis outbreak occurred in a large, urban jail. We investigated whether the outbreak strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) was circulating in the surrounding community after that outbreak. METHODS:We performed a retrospective cohort study of people with tuber...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Jones TF,Woodley CL,Fountain FF,Schaffner W

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 51-year-old woman suffered from dyspnea for several days before she came to an outside clinic for help. Pleura biopsy was performed and the histologic diagnosis was malignant mesothelioma. Sixteen months later, a palpable left breast lump was noted. Physical examination revealed a firm mass in the breast, measuring ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sheen-Chen SM,Liu YW,Eng HL,Huang CC,Ko SF

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe lactic acidosis is often associated with poor prognosis. Recognition and correction of the underlying process is the major step in the treatment of this serious condition. Intravenous administration of sodium bicarbonate has been the mainstay in the treatment of lactic acidosis. Aggressive use of this therapeut...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Warner A,Vaziri ND

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently developed a Data Bank for Digestive Disorders, with primary data derived from the performance of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. By using this system to analyze the clinical characteristics of patients with atypical chest pain, we found information from the patient's history (reflux, dysphagia, abdo...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pancotto FS,Garbutt JT Jr

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00