Squamous cell carcinoma of the pancreas with cystic degeneration.

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：BACKGROUND:The blood gas analyzer (BGA) has been considered the "gold standard" for pleural fluid pH determination. METHODS:We report the various methods used to measure pleural fluid pH by 277 acute care institutions who responded to a mailed questionnaire. The techniques used included the BGA (32%), dip stick or pH ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Chandler TM,McCoskey EH,Byrd RP Jr,Roy TM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies at "the Farm," a community of spiritually gathered young people in Summertown, Tenn, have shown that it is possible to sustain a normal pregnancy on a vegan diet. The source of dietary protein (ie, animal or vegetable) does not seem to affect birth weight, as long as vegans are health conscious, receive contin...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Carter JP,Furman T,Hutcheson HR

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether prolonged length of stay (pLOS) in ischemic stroke is related to delays in discharge disposition arrangement. METHODS:We designed a retrospective study to compare patients with acute ischemic stroke who experienced pLOS to those who did not experience pLOS. Patients who have had acute i...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Siegler JE,Boehme AK,Fowler BD,George AJ,Monlezun DJ,Albright KC,Beasley TM,Martin-Schild S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this project was to review the course of infants referred for consideration of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) to identify maximal ventilator settings that, when exceeded, did not provide clinical benefit to the patient. These settings might then be used in defining failure of conventional mechan...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Edwards G,Karp WB,Davis HC,Kernaghan GG,Boedy RF,Hatley RM,Howell CG,Kanto WP Jr

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thoracic splenosis is rare, with fewer than two dozen reported cases. Patients uniformly have a history of splenectomy with combined abdominal and thoracic trauma. Clinical signs and symptoms are usually absent, and the condition is most often discovered on routine chest radiography. The interval between trauma and cl...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Buchino JJ,Buchino JJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like the introduction of bare metal stents (BMS), that of drug-eluting stents (DES) represented a quantum leap in the interventional cardiology community's ongoing efforts to conquer restenosis. However, recent concerns over late thrombosis (LT) have tempered the initial enthusiasm. Nonetheless, when compared with BMS...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Chen JP

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brown recluse spider bites are usually self-limited skin lesions that infrequently progress to bullae, ulceration, and scarring. We treated a patient with a documented brown recluse bite who had recurring lesions resembling pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) that persisted for months. Three other patients referred to Vanderbil...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rees RS,Fields JP,King LE Jr

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastomycosis in children is relatively infrequent. Further, osteomyelitis of the frontal bone, which prior to the antibiotic era occurred more frequently and was mostly due to pyogenic cocci, is rare today. We described a case of frontal osteomyelitis in a child due to blastomycosis which occurred in the absence of f...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Devgan BK,Devgan M,Gross CW

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is an immunobullous disease characterized by circulating IgG antibodies directed towards cutaneous basement zone antigens. We report the case of a patient who had BP localized to a stoma site. At initial examination, a nodule was noted on the temple, which proved to be a large cell lymphoma, B-...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Egan CA,Florell SR,Zone JJ

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the efficacy of infrainguinal bypass for limb salvage in patients with end-stage renal disease. The patency of 42 femoropopliteal and femorodistal bypasses, performed for limb salvage in 37 patients with end-stage renal disease, was assessed with Doppler ultrasonography and dye tests. Patency rates and limb...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Wassermann RJ,Saroyan RM,Rice JC,Kerstein MD

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated psyllium fiber supplementation as a means of enhancing the cholesterol-lowering effect of the phase I American Heart Association diet. Fifty-nine subjects with total serum cholesterol (TC) levels ranging from 5.56 to 10.24 mmol/L (215 to 396 mg/dL) were given a 2-month dietary lead-in followed by 3 mon...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Neal GW,Balm TK

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy are the treatment modalities of choice in lymphomas. Except for Burkitt's tumor, surgery is usually indicated only when percutaneous biopsy fails to establish the histologic diagnosis. We have described a patient with glomerulonephritis and anasarca secondary to an IgM-producing p...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Osguthorpe JD,Rice D,Adkins WY

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reviewed 60 consecutive cases, occurring in 57 patients, of intramedullary fixation of fractures of the midshaft of the tibia done over a ten-year period with the Lottes nail. Of 50 acute fractures, 38 were open fractures, nailed after adequate irrigation and debridement; the other 12 were closed fractures. Th...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Velazco A,Whitesides TE Jr,Fleming LL

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of splenoportography in evaluating patients with portal hypertension was assessed. The technic was found to be useful in estimating portal-venous pressure, ruling out portal vein thrombosis, evaluating the superior mesenteric and portal veins as to their suitability for shunt procedures, and defining anatomy...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kogutt MS,Jander HP

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the documentation frequency of informed consent for women undergoing a trial of nonemergent instrumental delivery. STUDY DESIGN:A retrospective chart review of instrumented vaginal deliveries from 1992 to 2005 was performed. Cases were identified from a Labor and Delivery database and hospital ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Nichols CM,Pendlebury LC,Jennell J

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the statewide experience in mode of delivery for pregnancies complicated by stillbirth by annual delivery volume and presence of graduate medical education programs. METHODS:This is a descriptive study of all stillbirths without known congenital anomalies or aneuploidy born in our state from Jul...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ramseyer AM,Whittington JR,Magann EF,Warford B,Ounpraseuth S,Nembhard WN

更新日期：2020-12-01 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 discussed the pathology of the diverse, numerous neoplasms associated with the central and peripheral types of von Recklinghausen's disease, as exemplified by two case reports. While overlap can occur between these two major types, characteristically this does not occur. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Richardson RR,Noronha A,Lettsma J,Siqueira EB

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is reported of megaloblastic anemia resulting from folate deficiency in a vegetarian who had been taking oral contraceptives for eight years. A brief report of the pertinent literature is included, ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Green JD

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant increases in prevalence of resistance to antibiotics have been observed in common pathogens of humans in the United States and worldwide. The consequences of the appearance and spread of antibiotic resistance have included increasing morbidity, mortality, and cost of health care. The fundamental cause for ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hellinger WC

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with pancytopenia, severe sensory neuropathy, and a six-year history of excessive vitamin intake showed portal hypertension on evaluation. A liver biopsy revealed hypervitaminosis A. His sensory findings were characteristic of a recently described syndrome of sensory neuropathy secondary to megadoses of vita...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Davidson RA

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cluster headache (CH), though not fully characterized until this century, is a relatively common primary headache disorder. METHODS:We reviewed pertinent literature on CH and related cephalalgias. RESULTS:We found that CH typically occurs in middle-aged men and has a characteristic cyclic temporal pattern....

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Mendizabal JE,Umaña E,Zweifler RM

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most patients with intestinal obstruction have had previous surgery. Rarely, the development of adhesions and resulting small bowel obstruction is attributed to previous intra-abdominal trauma. We present the case of a young man, without a history of surgery, who had been a restrained driver in a motor vehicle crash. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Harrison JR,Blackstone MO,Vargish T,Gasparaitis A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia may be gastrointestinal bleeding with no other classical symptoms. This case demonstrates the effectiveness of surgical resection as treatment of duodenal bleeding from telangiectatic lesions. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Welling RE,Jain VK,Panke TW,Childs E

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oligohydramnios sequence (OS) is manifest in newborns when prolonged oligohydramnios has been present during pregnancy. The most important signs are an infant small for gestational age, with wrinkled skin, Potter facies, compression deformities of the limbs, and respiratory distress caused by pulmonary hypoplasia....

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Prouty LA,Myers TL

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a patient with portal hypertension and retrocardiac paramediastinal density on upright PA chest x-ray film. Splenoportograms showed this density to be paraesophageal collateral veins. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Frederick HM,Clements JL Jr,Colvin RS

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic rhinitis affects approximately 40% of children and generally presents in children from 10-19 years of age; however, the condition has been seen in children as young as 6 months. Antihistamines are commonly prescribed in infants and children for the relief of allergic symptoms. A 23-month-old male with a histo...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Jones MC,Jones CE 2nd

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a case of chronic pancreatitis due to stenosing papillitis relieved by sphincteroplasty and removal of pancreatic duct stones, as opposed to a major pancreatic resection. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sutherland CM,Muchmore JH,Browder IW,Vega PJ

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported the case of a patient with AIDS who had appendiceal perforation and periappendiceal abscess. Extensive infection with cytomegalovirus was found in the appendix; no other pathogen could be implicated in the perforation. This case emphasizes the broad spectrum of disease due to cytomegalovirus, particul...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Tucker RM,Swanson S,Wenzel RP

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00