Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lacrimal gland fossa: confirmation by ultrastructural study.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) represents a clinicopathologic entity with a dismal prognosis. The associated mortality rate has been reported as high as 80%; the morbidity is also quite high. The use of various fibrinolytic agents (streptokinase, urokinase, and recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Fountas KN,Kapsalaki EZ,Parish DC,Smith B,Smisson HF,Johnston KW,Robinson JS

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an intriguing, difficult problem characterized by anxiety-producing intrusive thoughts and performance of anxiety-reducing rituals. Current evidence suggests that OCD may be associated with dysregulation of serotonin and dopamine neurotransmission. Numerous early studies involvin...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Jackson CW,Morton WA,Lydiard RB

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin B12 deficiency can cause profound alterations in the bone marrow. These alterations can mimic the more serious diagnosis of acute leukemia. The two patients described in this report were originally suspected of having acute leukemia or myelodysplasia on the basis of the bone marrow smear, and induction chemoth...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Aitelli C,Wasson L,Page R

更新日期：2004-03-01 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 patient with long-standing chronic granulocytic leukemia. Although most patients with this disorder eventually have a picture of acute leukemia (blast crisis), this patient had massive thrombocytosis (platelet count greater than 5.000 x 10(9)/L) without major symptoms, but he died after transfusion...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Blachly RJ,Herring GF,Mansouri A

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis secondary to infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the most common causes of viral hepatitis worldwide. Multiple extrahepatic manifestations of HCV infection have been recognized. Dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy associated with HCV infection have been recently described in th...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Demir M,Demir C

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare mobile health (mHealth) usage by residents of West Virginia with national estimates. METHODS:Pew Research Center data from its Internet and American Life Project were accessed for secondary data analysis. These data, available to the public, are a probability sample of Internet use in the United S...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Giacobbi P Jr,Cushing P,Popa A,Haggerty T,Hansell A,Sedney C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are an estimated 22 million users of smokeless tobacco in the United States, 3 million of them under age 21. We surveyed physicians and patients to determine whether the health hazard of smokeless tobacco was recognized and whether preventive measures were being implemented. Although more than 80% of physicians ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gross JY,D'Alessandri R,Powell VL,Rodeheaver A

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fixation of femur fractures in children and adolescents is becoming widely accepted because of the lower chance of iatrogenic infection and prohibitive cost of in-hospital traction and spica cast care. Interlocking nails, which have dramatically improved adult femur fracture care, have posed problems, such as injury t...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： McGraw JJ,Gregory SK

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on two healthy white men who sustained high-voltage electrical burns and were transferred to our regional burn center for specialized care. Within 24 hours of admission, both patients developed clinical signs and laboratory evidence of diabetes insipidus. With appropriate treatment, no sequelae occurred and ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Urquhart CK,Craft PD,Nehlawi MM

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A woman with diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease developed pneumonia and bacteremia from Branhamella catarrhalis. This is only the fifth reported case of pneumonia with bacteremia due to this organism, which was previously considered normal upper airway flora. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Choo PW,Gantz NM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A "life stress" scale is applied to the antecedent events motivating 179 patients to seek outpatient psychiatric help. Intake evaluation reports of patients who kept their appointments at the Adult Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic of Vanderbilt University Hospital over a three-month period were reviewed. Almost half of t...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Corney RT,Roback HB

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extraskeletal dedifferentiated chondrosarcomas (DC) are uncommon tumors that predominantly occur in the head and neck. Herein, we describe a case of pulmonary DC detected in a patient with systemic sclerosis and presenting with a symptomatic large pleural effusion and a pulmonary lobar consolidation on chest imaging. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Boueiz A,Abougergi MS,Noujeim C,Bousamra A,Sfeir P,Zaatari G,Bou-Khalil P

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transchondral talar dome fractures are a rare but not unknown cause of continued disability following a "sprained ankle." The diagnosis is made with standard ankle roentgenograms and an awareness of the lesion. Surgical treatment is recommended in acute and chronic cases, based on the amount of displacement of the fra...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Nash WC,Baker CL Jr

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All cases of surgically proven and cured primary hyperparathyroidism, over a five-year period, were reviewed for the presence of hypertension, renal and/or prerenal azotemia, nephrolithiasis, nephrocalcinosis, and patient symptom status. In this group of 23 patients, the prevalence of hypertension was greater than 78%...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lueg MC

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively studied 125 patients treated for carcinoma in situ of the vulva from 1961 through 1984, with follow-up ranging from one to 24 years. Patients' ages ranged from 24 to 90 years, with a mean age of 53 years. Multifocal disease was more common in women under age 40. Pruritus was the most common complain...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Fiorica JV,Cavanagh D,Marsden DE,Shepherd JH,Ruffolo EH,Songster CL

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described clostridial sepsis in a child who presented with an abdominal crisis of sickle cell disease. Clostridium paraputrificum should be included in the list of organisms known to cause sepsis in patients with sickle cell anemia. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Brook I,Gluck RS

更新日期：1980-12-01 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：: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：: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

authors： Dunn AW

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HBsAg and anti-HBs positivity was determined in hospital laboratory workers and nonlaboratory hospital workers (controls) matched for race and sex and adjusted for age. The combined prevalence of antigen-antibody positivity among white female technicians was 12% versus 0 of controls (P less than 0.005). The highest pr...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Wruble LD,Masi AT,Levinson MJ,Rightsell WA,Bale GF,Bertram P,Blackwell CF

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between the years 1963 to 1982, 84 consecutive cases of intracranial complications of ear disease in pediatric patients were diagnosed and treated at the North Carolina Baptist Hospital. This group consisted of 65 patients with otitic meningitis, four with otitic brain abscess, four with otitic hydrocephalus, three wi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gower DJ,McGuirt WF,Kelly DL Jr

更新日期：1985-04-01 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：:A patient had a tracheoesophageal fistula resulting from malignant histiocytoma. Surgical treatment included esophagectomy and repair of the left main-stem bronchus. Gastrointestinal continuity was restored by a right colon interposition after chemotherapy. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kelly JP,Roper CL

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported a case of horseshoe kidney, a common renal fusion anomaly. Because of the 25% incidence of associated genitourinary anomalies, we believe that the diagnosis of horseshoe kidney in pediatric patients should initiate a thorough urologic evaluation, including intravenous urography and real-time sonograph...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sumner TE,Volberg FM,Munitz A,Harrison LH,Mashburn AM

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a case in which the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis with findings of progressive paraplegia and a neurogenic bladder led to supravesical urinary diversion. Pyocystis led to creation of a urethrovesicovaginal fistula. Psychotherapy later uncovered hysterical conversion reaction. Which was cured with h...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Frentz GD,Wilcox ME,Epstein AW

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

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：:We have described a 38-year-old white American woman who had a 7-year history of pain in the left anterior chest, neck, right wrist, and buttocks. The pain fluctuated in severity and appeared to coincide with worsening of her skin condition, palmoplantar pustulosis (PPP). She manifested the typical skeletal features o...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： McGee TC,Field RS,Loebl DH,Bailey JP Jr,Sizemore KR

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a lack of reliable serum biomarkers for routine use in the diagnostic workup of people with traumatic brain injury. Multiple biomediators and biomarkers have been described in the pertinent literature in recent years; however, only a few candidate molecules have been associated with high sensitivity and high ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Neher MD,Keene CN,Rich MC,Moore HB,Stahel PF

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a wealth of publications extolling the virtues of the double contrast barium enema (DCBE), it is clear that change is only gradual and that in many institutions the single contrast, full column barium enema (BE) is still the routine method of colonic investigation. Much of this may be due to a persistent belie...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Young J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00