Biopsy of the prostate guided by transrectal ultrasonography: early experience in a teaching community hospital.

abstract：:We report a case of multiple myeloma in which the bone lesions showed high uptake of technetium Tc 99m methylene diphosphonate on a bone scan. A review of the literature comparing the usefulness of conventional skeletal radiography and bone scans in diagnosing the osteolytic lesions of myeloma shows that bone scintigr...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Murthy NJ,Rao H,Friedman AS

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variant angina pectoris, usually not precipitated by exertion or emotional stress, often is more severe and lasts longer than classic angina. The pain tends to recur at about the same time each day. Arrhythmias, usually ventricular, occur in about 50% of cases during the peak of pain. Electrocardiograms show a charact...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Siegel JS

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a patient with small cell cancer of the lung manifested as the Eaton-Lambert syndrome. Primary therapy proved effective in reversing the syndrome, whereas anticholinesterase agents did not. This case illustrates the value of primary therapy for the tumor-produced syndrome and the need to avoid losing...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kalter S,Dhingra HM,Farha P

更新日期：1985-02-01 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：:In three patients with SIADH, mannitol or glycerol promoted a rapid free water diuresis. Use of osmotic agents requires less laboratory and clinical monitoring than use of furosemide, is appropriate treatment, and in fact may be the treatment of choice in some patients with symptomatic hyponatremia from SIADH. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Weinberg MS,Donohoe JF

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implantation of automatic internal cardiac defibrillators (AICD) for management of arrhythmias necessitates the induction of ventricular fibrillation (VF) to test the device adequately. The profound hypotension associated with induced arrhythmia and subsequent circulatory arrest may result in cerebral ischemia. To cha...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Dorman BH,Conroy JM,Baker JD 3rd,Kratz JM,Leman RB

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like all types of farming, raising tobacco has many hazards that may lead to injury, disability, or death. Burley tobacco farming is a multistep process that is not highly mechanized. An 8-year emergency department surveillance system in Kentucky identified 674 injury cases related to the production of burley tobacco....

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Struttmann TW,Reed DK

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic ketoacidosis can be effectively and economically treated by using low-dose intravenous insulin and 2 to 3 liters of isotonic saline at 500 ml/hr to replace extracellular fluids, followed by 2 to 4 L of 5% glucose in 0.45% saline with potassium chloride and/or potassium phosphate to replace intracellular fluid...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Moss JM

更新日期：1987-07-01 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：:Primary malignant melanoma of the oral cavity is uncommon. Four cases are presented. The average age is in the sixth decade. Early diagnosis is difficult and prognosis is generally poor. Efforts toward earlier detection and treatment are recommended. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Stromberg BV

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the incidence of endometrial cancer among estrogen-treated women at Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center was not increased as reported by others, a prospective study was begun in 1975. With this data base, the cases of breast and endometrial cancer in estrogen and oral contraceptive users were reviewed. The inc...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gambrell RD Jr

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore breast cancer beliefs among a cohort of low-income, urban, English-speaking women in Miami, Florida, who had undergone screening mammography. METHODS:Four focus groups of 34 women were conducted. Discussions were transcribed verbatim and transcripts were analyzed separately by two investigators u...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Marcus EN,Drummond DK,Dietz N,Kenya S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bullosis diabeticorum, or diabetic bullae, is a non-inflammatory blistering condition that is virtually diagnostic of diabetes. Diabetic bullae most often present as painless, tense, superficial bullae that occur in an acral distribution and commonly heal in 2-6 weeks without scarring, but complications such as second...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lopez PR,Leicht S,Sigmon JR,Stigall L

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Insurance status has the potential to play a significant role in an individual's health care by affecting the time of diagnosis and the treatment options used. Our study reviewed insurance status as a determinant of the time of a breast cancer diagnosis as well as the surgical treatment options offered. MET...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lukavsky R,Sariego J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss the cases of four immigrant workers in whom lead intoxication developed via inhalation while they were cutting steel beams removed from a dismantled bridge. They all had toxic lead levels with symptoms and received chelation therapy; the therapy was followed by a decrease in blood lead levels. Rebound incre...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Grimsley EW,Adams-Mount L

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The macerated stillborn fetus represents at least one third of all perinatal deaths. Microscopic examination of these specimens is often unrewarding. We have reported a clinically unsuspected cytomegalovirus infection in a second trimester macerated fetus. Cells suggestive of CMV inclusions were identified by light mi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Schwartz DA,Walker B,Furlong B,Breding E,Someren A

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-two cases of gonococcal arthritis in pregnant women admitted to Jackson Memorial Hospital between 1962 and 1971 are reviewed. Our specific aim is to reinforce awareness of this serious complication in pregnancy. The incidence of gonococcal arthritis is higher in women, but more significantly, it appears that th...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Chapman DR,Fernandez-Rocha L

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenformin-associated lactic acidosis is an important though unusual cause of acute abdominal pain. Its clinical picture suggests other catastrophic abdominal entities. A representative case is presented. Aids to arriving at this diagnosis are presented and the specific therapy is outlined. The pathophysiology of this...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bartecchi CE,Williams JD

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tobacco-growing states have few tobacco control laws, which are relatively weak compared with those in non-tobacco-growing states. Region of the country has been shown to be a predictor of legislators' intentions to vote for cigarette tax increases. METHODS:A total of 116 lawmakers (84%) participated in fac...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hahn EJ,Rayens MK

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a 9-year-old girl with pigmented villonodular synovitis of the right knee. She presented with a chronic bloody effusion of the knee. The diagnosis of pigmented villonodular synovitis was suggested by the findings on magnetic resonance imaging and confirmed at the time of arthroscopic synovectomy....

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Saulsbury FT

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (24BP) is an emerging technology used to further evaluate elevated blood pressure readings obtained during office visits. We wondered whether a less costly approach than 24BP would lead clinicians to similar treatment decisions. Eleven faculty general internists se...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rucker L,Mabourakh S,Onishi R

更新日期：1990-06-01 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：: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：:Cantharidin in either a 0.9% or 0.7% solution is a safe and effective office treatment for molluscum contagiosum. It simplifies the treatment, especially of children, by being a quick, simple, and painless procedure, but it should be applied only by the physician. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Funt TR,Mehr KA

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the prevalence of sexual contact between physicians and patients, we mailed a survey to a nationwide, randomized sample of 1,600 physicians, including internists, family medicine physicians, obstetrician-gynecologists, and ophthalmologists. The response rate was 52% (n = 787). Of all respondents, 4.5% rep...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bayer T,Coverdale J,Chiang E

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first two known cases of infantile botulism in Oklahoma. The first case was due to type B toxin; the second was due to type A toxin. Both cases demonstrate most of the classic features of what now appears to be the most common form of botulism. Infantile botulism is an underrecognized but reversible cau...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gay CT,Marks WA,Riley HD Jr,Bodensteiner JB,Hamza M,Noorani PA,Bobele GB

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：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：:A total of 37 physicians and other health care professionals have been accepted into a monitoring and advocacy program for an average of 24 months. Thirty-five are working in their profession, one is in treatment, and one has repeatedly relapsed and is no longer practicing medicine (an overall improvement rate of 97%)...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Roy AK 3rd

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute methemoglobinemia is a medical emergency that can rapidly become fatal. A substantial number of drugs, including topical preparations, can precipitate this condition. I report a rare example of severe, acute methemoglobinemia caused by oropharyngeal anesthesia with topical benzocaine spray for orogastric intubat...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cooper HA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00