Narcolepsy.

abstract：:We describe a 47-year-old man with shoulder pain, multiple bony lesions, and a 1-cm lesion in the spleen. T-1 facetectomy revealed a poorly differentiated malignant neoplasm. Several months after chemotherapy, multiple splenic lesions were found by computed tomography and liver-spleen scan. A splenectomy showed a mali...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： McGinley K,Googe P,Hanna W,Bell J

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：:We report a case of perforated solitary jejunal diverticulum in an 80-year-old woman. Jejunal diverticulosis occurs in 0.07% to 2.0% of the population. Jejunal diverticulitis with perforation is rare and is associated with high mortality. Treatment is surgical resection of the involved segment. Several theories to exp...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Albu E,Parikh V,Alankar S,Gerst PH

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-agent chemotherapy (actinomycin D) was administered in cyclic regimens to 26 patients with metastatic, nonseminomatous testicular carcinoma. Twenty-five patients were evaluable, 9 with stage II disease and 16 with stage III disease. A 37.5% response rate in stage III disease is reported and all patients are lon...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Early KS,Albert DJ

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I describe the case of a 25-year-old man who, after a scuba dive, had ocular barotrauma caused by mask squeeze. As in most cases, the condition occurred because the patient failed to exhale into the mask during descent to equalize the pressure within the mask. Although alarming in appearance, the condition is generall...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rudge FW

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide (CO) has been widely recognized as an exogenous poison, although endogenous mechanisms for its formation involve heme-oxygenase (HO) isoforms, more specifically HO-1, in the setting of oxidative stress such as acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, trauma, and nitric oxide use have been studied. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ruisi P,Ruisi M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public outcry regarding unsafe interhospital patient transfers led to the passage of the COBRA Law of 1985. Since its implementation in 1986, the law has been sharply criticized for its sporadic enforcement, narrow focus, and lack of care provisions for the poor. We reviewed retrospectively the charts of all emergency...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kerr HD,Byrd JC,Stuart RW,Whitcomb J

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An example of a blind-ending branch of a bifid ureter in a woman presenting with a urinary tract infection is reported. Definition, diagnosis, and treatment of this anomaly are discussed. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Dalton DL

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported a case of reversible acute renal transplant failure due to the Page kidney phenomenon, which followed routine diagnostic needle biopsy. Duplex Doppler ultrasonography differentiated between allograft rejection and graft failure due to perirenal and mechanical abnormalities. Renal transplant failure ma...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Dempsey J,Gavant ML,Cowles SJ,Gaber AO

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When patient records are to be auditied in a program designed to assess the quality of medical care rendered, careful consideration must be given to the cost of the system implemented. Structured data collection and a defined treatment plan are advantageous in facilitating the use of nonphysicians for the majority of ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ahlers P,Sullivan RJ,Hammond WE,Walter EL,Tolley HD

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy is an unusual occurrence in women with ESRD. We report a successful pregnancy in a patient with ESRD who was receiving hemodialysis; she gave birth to a healthy female infant at 34 weeks' gestational age. We discuss possible physiologic causes of gonadal dysfunction in patients with ESRD. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ahlstrom NG,Allen SR,Tisher CC

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of death certificates of victims with laryngeal cancer in Oklahoma for the period 1950 to 1970 attempts to corroborate findings of the current literature. Sex-race specific death rates per 100,000 for white, nonwhite, and American Indian populaces displayed a distinct sex and racial pattern: respectively, 38....

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cuchiara AJ,Asal NR

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenytoin has traditionally been used for both prophylaxis and acute treatment of alcohol withdrawal seizures. With the exception of a well defined subgroup of withdrawing patients, this may not be appropriate. Chronic anticonvulsant therapy is not indicated without evidence of another underlying seizure diathesis. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Josephson GW,Sabatier HS Jr

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients in whom the signs and symptoms of intracranial hypertension resolved after surgical correction of hydrocephalus are described. In both instances skull roentgenograms showed an abnormal sella turcica, and an arteriogram and sir study were necessary to prevent misdiagnosis as "pseudotumor cerebri." Evidence...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Weisberg LA

更新日期：1977-01-01 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：:Unremitting diarrhea is a common problem in patients with AIDS. We have reported the case of such a patient who was treated with the somatostatin analogue octreotide for chronic diarrhea and who had acute pancreatitis as a consequence of this therapy. We postulate that the possible mechanism for the pathogenesis of th...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gradon JD,Schulman RH,Chapnick EK,Sepkowitz DV

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal antimicrobial therapy for viridans streptococcal endocarditis remains controversial. Rifampin was bactericidal at less than 0.2 micrograms/ml for ten strains of viridans streptococci isolated from patients with endocarditis. Administration of rifampin to one endocarditis patient already receiving penicillin an...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Stamm AM,Phillips EK

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of hyperthyroidism after primary hypothyroidism is unusual. We report such a case in a 37-year old man and review the clinical and immunologic aspects of the previously published cases of 50 female and 19 male patients with a similar condition. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Al-Sharafi BA,Khardori R

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of the needle-catheter feeding jejunostomy at Richland Memorial Hospital and the Dorn Veterans Administration Hospital, both clinical teaching institutions of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, has been evaluated in 114 patients ranging from 20 to 90 years old. The results of this survey span a 3...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Strickland GF,Greene FL

更新日期：1986-11-01 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:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is predominantly a disease of the elderly population, but it sometimes occurs in young patients. The diagnosis of CRC in youngsters is often overlooked by physicians or presentation may be delayed. METHODS:With assistance from the cancer registry center of Taipei Veterans General Hos...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Chen LK,Hwang SJ,Li AF,Lin JK,Wu TC

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over a decade there has been concern about hepatitis related to halothane anesthesia. No dose relationship or other direct cause has ever been established, and jaundice has been found to occur after other anesthetics for surgical operations. Enflurane is a newer halogenated compound with a remarkable record of saf...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Thompson DS,Friday CD

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of acute appendicitis with perforation associated with retained appendiceal barium. Abnormally retained barium may lead to appendicitis and this should be kept in mind when a barium-filled appendix is seen in an asymptomatic patient. Routine follow-up films on all patients whose appendix fills with ba...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sisley JF,Wagner CW

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium. Skin infection with these organisms is unusual, and the histologic appearance in this case suggested lepromatous leprosy. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Love GL

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described three cases of adenomyoma of the stomach. These benign lesions are found almost exclusively in the antrum or pylorus and are composed of combinations of ducts, glands, pancreatic tissue, and smooth muscle. Malignancy arising in adenomyomas is rare. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Stewart TW Jr,Mills LR

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Mycobacterium kansasii in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome usually involves the lung or disseminated infection. We report a case of infection with M kansasii confined to the adrenal gland and possibly to an adjacent vertebral body that presented as a fever of undetermined origin. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Cook PP,Christie J

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report describes an accidental ingestion of a gold dental inlay prosthesis that became lodged in the appendix. A nonsurgical approach was pursued because this blunt foreign body posed a minimal perforation risk. A second opinion for an elective appendectomy was chosen by the patient until a preoperative abdo...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Palmer GM,Shortsleeve MJ

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a patient in whom complete regression of pulmonary metastases from renal cell carcinoma (RCC) followed treatment with medroxy-progesterone acetate (Depo-Provera). Although the reported rate of objective response to progesterone therapy in RCC is only 10% to 15%, the occasionally dramatic results, esp...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rao MK,Soloway MS

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Safety restraints have proven effective in the prevention of serious automobile injuries and deaths, but safety education has been ineffective in getting consumers to use restraints. We surveyed the personal and counseling practices of a group of pediatricians over a one-year period to determine whether prenatal and p...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Greenberg LW,Coleman AB

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As this case illustrates, lung cancer should be included in the differential diagnosis in a young person with fever, purulent sputum, and a large cystic mass on chest roentgenogram. An aggressive diagnostic approach including biopsy is recommended if symptoms do not respond to early treatment. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hebert C,George RB

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00