Alcohol and cocaine use among first-year college students.

abstract：:We have reported a case of benign papillary mesothelioma of the peritoneum found incidentally during surgical exploration in a patient with rectal carcinoma. Clinicians and pathologists alike may find it difficult to differentiate this uncommon lesion from metastatic tumors. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Tzanakakis G,McCully KS,Vezeridis MP

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoma of the fallopian tube is the least common of the gynecologic malignancies. Because of its rarity and the absence of typical symptoms, preoperative diagnosis is seldom made. Patient as well as physician delay in diagnosis is often considerable. There are no reliable laboratory aids available to enhance the di...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ingram FH,Hisley JC

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rarely, a misguided or delusional patient will attempt to self-administer a relatively more invasive form of medical or surgical treatment. I believe this report to be the first described case of an attempt to self-administer ECT. A patient with schizoaffective disorder reported benefits from regularly applied electri...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bishop LC

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was planned to determine the effectiveness of the Breese scoring system for the diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis and to evaluate its significance in different age groups. The research population was divided into two age groups. Group 1 consisted of children aged three and below and group 2 comprised c...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Karacan M,Karakelleoğlu C,Orbak Z

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many psychiatric patients experience pharmaceutical intolerances, and some of them do not derive optimal efficacy from their pharmacotherapies. Clinical problems such as these may result in prolonged dysfunction, adverse consequences, and repeated changes in medication treatment regimens. Pharmacogenomics is a laborat...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Narang P,Johnson A,Enja M,Lippmann S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, screening has largely failed to fulfill the hope that early detection would lead to more effective early treatment and to improved health status in the population served. The future role of screening can be much more positive but only if (1) screening is directed only at diseases and conditions for which earl...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： North AF Jr

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of fatal and nonfatal pulmonary embolism (PE) was evaluated in a series of 578 patients, to quantify the suspected higher risk in cancer patients of death from massive PE when compared with patients not having cancer. PE occurred in 13% and was fatal in 8% of noncancer patients. It occurred in 17% and wa...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Shen VS,Pollak EW

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pneumonia is a leading infectious cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. The Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) and American Thoracic Society (ATS) have published treatment guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) based upon the site of acquisition and specific pathogen ris...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Fleming V,Buck B,Nix N,Kumar P,Southwood R

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effects of chronic diuretic use on serum homocysteine and its metabolic cofactors vitamin B6, vitamin B12, and red blood cell (RBC) folate have not been well studied. METHODS:Blood samples from 17 hypertensive patients receiving long-term diuretic therapy and 17 hypertensive patients not taking diuretic...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Morrow LE,Grimsley EW

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The University of Virginia Department of Medicine has reorganized its adult diabetic ambulatory care program to provide optimal primary care and subspecialty services. This new program, the Diabetes Consult Service of the University Medical Associates, is organized to provide primary care by a single physician in addi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pohl SL,Hodge RH Jr,Evans WS,Hodge SS,Lumelsky-Weinbaum J

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demented patient requires medical and often psychiatric supervision, but the caregiver is often neglected. This article identifies special issues for caregivers that may need attention from the demented patient's physician. The physician's attention can benefit both the patient and the caregiver and save the physi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Greene JA,Taylor SE,Johnson W

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the remarkably low mortality from poisonous snakebites in the United States during the past few years, there has been little improvement in preventing deformities of digits. Using a retrospective study of 207 cases of poisonous snakebite, I present a method that has been highly successful in avoiding deformiti...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Watt CH Jr

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a case in which prenatal ultrasonography showed a defect in the fetal abdominal wall. By further careful evaluation gastroschisis was diagnosed, allowing a planned delivery in a tertiary care center where specialized personnel were immediately available to treat the neonate. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bluth EI,Spanjers MA,Goldsmith JP,Sullivan MA

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High fever occurred in a 30-year-old woman five weeks after transsphenoidal hypophysectomy for a pituitary adenoma. Extensive investigation failed to reveal any evidence of infection, and the clinical findings suggested the fever to be a manifestation of steroid withdrawal. Either suboptimal dosage of corticosteroid r...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Soto-Hernandez JL,Verghese A,Hall BD,Cole CP,Cupp HB Jr

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Guidelines have recommended that risk stratification be performed in patients diagnosed with an acute pulmonary embolism (PE). No study has described the use of risk stratification in routine clinical practice. The purpose of this study was to measure the frequency and impact of risk stratification on treatm...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Stamm JA,Long JL,Kirchner HL,Keshava K,Wood KE

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common clinical condition with presentations that may vary from asymptomatic subsegmental emboli to massive vascular obstruction and shock with high risk of death. Identifying patients at highest risk for death is critical to select those who would benefit most from thrombolytic the...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Vyas PA,Donato AA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schwannoma arising within breast parenchyma is rare. We report such a case in a 50-year-old woman. The tumor, which measured 7 mm, is the smallest and the only mammographically detected schwannoma of the breast thus far reported. Clinicians should be aware that this benign tumor of breast may simulate a malignant neop...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gultekin SH,Cody HS 3rd,Hoda SA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined present and anticipated future levels of career satisfaction among psychiatrists in the greater Houston area. We gathered data by means of an anonymous questionnaire. The strongest univariate correlations between background variables and current and anticipated future levels of career satisfaction were fou...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： McKelvey RS,Webb JA

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perinephric and prostatic abscesses may present with protean symptoms and often arise from ascending urinary tract infections. Both abscesses are often caused by uropathogens, and only on rare occasions is the etiology due to methacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Perinephric and prostatic abscesses have ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Tobian AA,Ober SK

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared a "cardiac profile" test with standard creatine kinase (CK) and lactic dehydrogenase (LD) electrophoresis in 798 cases of possible acute myocardial infarction (MI). The cardiac profile enzyme screen (CK-B, CK, LD) used on 495 patients who came to the emergency department with chest pain suggestive of acute...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： de Leon AC Jr,Farmer CA,King G,Manternach J,Ritter D

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with typical classic migraine, including clear-cut visual auras, who had been followed up clinically for more than 15 years developed permanent right homonymous hemianopia. The underlying cause of this clinical syndrome was established by computerized axial tomography as vascular infarction or ischemia, invo...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Moorehead MT 2nd,Movius HJ,Moorehead JR,Jackson MH,Jackson JG

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mineral oil scrapings from an infant with a persistent, puzzling, generalized eruption revealed the mite, Sarcoptes scabiei. Various diagnostic technics and treatment for scabies are discussed. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hazelrigg DE,Jarratt M

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a class 4 choledochal cyst in a 24-year-old black woman treated with choledochocystoduodenostomy. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Clark SJ,Shamblin JL Jr

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 61-year-old man with facial diplegia and new onset of congestive heart failure (CHF), electroneuromyography indicated diffuse axonal degeneration, but sural nerve biopsy showed mild changes and no amyloid. Four months later, after the onset of diplopia and increasing CHF, rectal biopsy demonstrated amyloid. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Massey EW,Massey JM

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The primary aim of this study was to determine reasons why health care personnel (HCP) in a public health department chose or refused free influenza vaccinations offered at the worksite. METHODS:In an internal review board-approved study, we offered, through a health nurse at the site, self-administered sur...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Millner VS,Eichold BH 2nd,Franks RD,Johnson GD

更新日期：2010-10-01 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

authors： Scrignar CB

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy with radiation has become more popular than radiotherapy alone for patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer because of the successful results associated with it. We report the case of a 67-year-old man with hypopharyngeal cancer invading the prevertebral fascia who became free of disease after ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ampil F,Mills G,Burton G,Malik A,Krishnamsetty RM

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Benchmarking techniques were implemented to optimize operating time and charges associated with laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH). MATERIALS AND METHODS:The baseline LAVH profile over a period of 4 years (167 cases) was compared with 1-year data (47 cases) after a benchmarking educationa...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Tu FF,Feinglass J,Milad MP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gabapentin, an antiepileptic agent, is a safe and versatile medication also used in the adjunctive treatment of painful disorders. These include neuropathic pain, such as postherpetic neuralgia, diabetic neuropathy, and the pain of reflex sympathetic dystrophy. Interstitial cystitis, a painful disease entity, shares m...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hansen HC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 66-year-old woman with a subacute onset of mild dementia and headaches was discovered to have multiple large, hyperdense lesions on cranial CT scan. Biopsy showed poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma with necrosis and dystrophic calcification, which represented an unusual initial manifestation of metastatic breast c...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Murray JJ,Houston MC

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00