Orbital hydatid cyst in childhood: a report of two cases.

abstract：:A case of brain stem infarction after chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine is presented. Proposed mechanisms and sites of possible arterial injury are discussed. A diagnosis of vertebral artery occlusion was made using conventional brachial angiography. Digital intravenous angiography, a relatively new and ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Braun IF,Pinto RS,De Filipp GJ,Lieberman A,Pasternack P,Zimmerman RD

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is common in the adult population, sigmoid volvulus is unusual in childhood. We report the cases of four children treated for sigmoid volvulus, and we review an additional 44 cases. The mean age of occurrence was 8 years. Predisposing factors were present in 33%. Abdominal pain (66%), vomiting (31%), and o...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Smith SD,Golladay ES,Wagner C,Seibert JJ

更新日期：1990-07-01 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：: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 have described a young man who had acute myocardial infarction after his first use of cocaine. This case demonstrates that potentially lethal myocardial infarctions may be associated with such initial "experimentation" with cocaine even in relatively small doses. Cocaine intoxication should be considered in young p...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Wehbie CS,Vidaillet HJ Jr,Navetta FI,Peter RH

更新日期：1987-07-01 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

abstract：:Several recent cases illustrate the medical-ethical-legal consequences associated with lack of awareness in caring for and treating the dying patient. We question whether solutions advanced by others are feasible or desirable for use in medical education, and suggest looking to the familiar principles of clinical medi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Mullaly RW,Osmond H

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the medical history, physical examination, and laboratory tests done on 245 patients with laparoscopically proven ectopic pregnancies. The absence of abdominal pain was the only clinically useful negative predictive value (91%) regarding tubal rupture. Although mean levels of serum human chorionic gonadot...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hirata AJ,Soper DE,Bump RC,Hurt WG

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a community hospital, we correlated results of thallium 201 myocardial scintigraphy with coronary arteriographic data in 79 patients. Scintigraphy was 92% sensitive and 85% specific in detecting coronary artery disease. There were no false-negative scintigrams in patients with double or triple vessel disease. The m...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Tendera M,Campbell WB,Moyers JR

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with pseudotumor cerebri for which a lumboperitoneal (LP) shunt was placed. After a pseudomeningocele was noted at the lumbar incision site, an LP shunt revision was done, at which time migration of the catheter into the thecal sac was noted. Three months later, radiologic studies revealed crania...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Alleyne CH Jr,Shutter LA,Colohan AR

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Older adults who may not complain of balance problems may nevertheless be developing subtle balance problems that may affect future functioning. This study sought to determine whether subtle problems could be predicted by standard balance testing. METHODS:At the geriatric medicine clinic at an academic terti...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cohen HS,Sangi-Haghpeykar H,Williams SP

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human ehrlichiosis is not a common cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Physicians should be aware of this life-threatening but treatable entity. Progression to ARDS may be related to delay in diagnosis and treatment. Fever, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and a history of tick exposure in an endemic are...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Patel RG,Byrd MA

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predictability of a method of determining serum digoxin concentration was assessed in a retrospective study of 35 hospitalized patients taking digoxin orally for maintenance therapy. Simple pharmacokinetic expressions were used to estimate digoxin concentration. Clinically, the mean measured digoxin concentration ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Shearer SW,Sawyer WT,Petteway SB Jr

更新日期：1984-03-01 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：:We have reported the case of a 19-year-old black man with sickle cell disease who had swelling over the right frontal and periorbital areas. Plain roentgenograms and CT scans were consistent with frontal sinus disease. At trephination, however, sterile liquescent blood clot was found in the frontal sinus. Awareness of...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Seibert RW,Seibert JJ,Frazier EA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the records of 100 consecutive patients who had gastroscopy. All endoscopic work was done by our four-man surgical group. Roentgenographic and endoscopic diagnoses are compared with reference to degree of accuracy. The expanded uses of gastroscopy in surgical practice are illustrated and a plea is made for...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Futch CB,Jennings ER,Egan RW,Addison BA

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical presentations of liver abscess, hepatoma, and metastatic tumor to the liver may be quite similar, and procedures such as computerized tomography, radionuclide scanning, and ultrasonography of the liver cannot make a specific diagnosis. Therefore, we compared the clinical presentations of 38 patients seen ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Klotz SA,Penn RL

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive unilateral virginal breast hypertrophy in a 13-year-old girl was treated by right breast reduction, with removal of 2,968 g of breast tissue. A year later, the patient had enlargement of the left breast, and contralateral reduction mammoplasty was done. Two-year follow-up has shown no further enlargement. This...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Netscher DT,Mosharrafa AM,Laucirica R

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 50-year-old black man was admitted with a diagnosis of a ruptured rotator cuff syndrome two weeks after an injury to the right shoulder and treatment by intra-articular steroid injection. At operation pus and necrotic debris were found in the shoulder joint, but the rotator cuff was anatomically intact. Surgical deb...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gordon EJ,Hutchful GA

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective study of all patients who had pulmonary embolism during a 37-year span at M. D. Anderson Hospital, we identified 502 patients, 30 of whom had a primary malignancy in the head and neck region. Only five of these patients had a clinically significant pulmonary embolus during the immediate postoperativ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Spires JR,Byers RM,Sanchez ED

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serologic tests for the diagnosis of blastomycosis have had inadequate sensitivity, but results are improved with enzyme immunoassay (EIA) with A-antigen of Blastomyces dermatitidis. The Premier Blastomyces EIA kit (Meridian Diagnostics Inc, Cincinnati, Ohio) detected antibody against the B dermatitidis A-antigen in s...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bradsher RW,Pappas PG

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compartment syndrome of the leg is usually associated with significant trauma. It has also been associated with prolonged surgery in the hemilithotomy position. Fracture tables that are used for the internal fixation of proximal femur fractures under fluoroscopy place a patient in this position. This report chronicles...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Meldrum R,Lipscomb P

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Airway failures are the second leading cause of potentially preventable death on the battlefield. Improvements in airway management depend on identifying current challenges. We sought to build on previously reported data on prehospital, combat airway management. METHODS:We used a series of emergency departm...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Schauer SG,Naylor JF,Maddry JK,Beaumont DM,Cunningham CW,Blackburn MB,April MD

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slipped capital femoral epiphysis has been described in several syndromes associated with short stature and endocrine disturbances. I have presented a case of slipped capital femoral epiphysis in conjunction with Russell-Silver syndrome. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Limbird TJ

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of prostate cancer in black men is estimated to be 30% to 50% higher than among age-matched white men, and black men have a twofold higher mortality rate. To determine whether racial differences exist in men with similarly staged disease, we compared clinical and pathologic features in black an...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bozeman C,Williams BJ,Whatley T,Crow A,Eastham J

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing and/or balance disorders are symptoms that may be associated with tumors of the cerebellopontine angle (CPA). Between March 1988 and May 1995, 22 patients had diagnosis or evaluation of CPA tumors at Cleveland Clinic Florida. The most common presenting signs or symptoms included unilateral low-frequency tinnit...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Astor FC,Lechtenberg CL,Banks RD,Hanft KL,Hanson MR,Salanga VD,DeSai MB

更新日期：1997-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:In this study, the clinical characteristics, survival, and prognostic factors of 200 patients diagnosed as having chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) were analyzed. METHODS:The medical charts of 200 CLL patients registered to our center between 1984 and 2000 were retrospectively evaluated. RESULTS:Of all pa...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pamuk ON,Pamuk GE,Soysal T,Ongören S,Başlar Z,Ferhanoğlu B,Aydin Y,Ulkü B,Aktuğlu G,Akman N

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The range of procedures now routinely done through the laparoscope has continued to expand due to improved equipment for insufflation, hemostasis, and tissue manipulation, and to imaginative approaches to otherwise "routine" gynecologic problems traditionally treated by laparotomy. As with all new technologies, advoca...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Wagner J,Droesch J,Mann WJ

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual intestinal infection with the parasite Metagonimus yokogawai was acquired by an American traveling in the Orient. Diarrhea began abroad, and recurred at intervals until she was seen 1 1/2 years later. Stool examinations resulted in the recovery of small operculated ova characteristic of intestinal or biliar...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Goldsmith RS

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00