SMJ // October 1966, Volume 59 - Issue 10
Case Report
Otitic Hydrocephalus
Intracranial hypertension may not be a benign disease since it may cause irreversible disease of the optic tract. One form, related to disease of the mastoid, is described in this case report.
Case Report
Hemolysis, Renal Failure and Death, Presumed Secondary to Bite of Brown Recluse Spider
Although the clinical course in this patient's illness was not proven to follow the bite of the brown spider, its characteristics seem identical with the proven cases reported in children. It thus would represent the first fatal case in an adult.
Original Article
Monitoring During Ophthalmic Surgery
Original Article
Bilateral Uveal Metastases from Carcinoma of the Breast
Original Article
Unsuspected Foreign Bodies of the Eye
The authors emphasize that even trivial injuries to the eye may include penetrating foreign bodies unsuspected by attending physicians or the patient. The development of impaired function weeks, months or years later may prove the presence of foreign materials in the eye.
Original Article
Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiography in Patients with Biliary Disease
The authors have found this a useful and relatively safe means of diagnosis in obstructive jaundice. They believe the use of the intracath needle is the safest method.
Original Article
Clinical Experience with Electronystagmography
The authors outline the uses of this mode of testing and the aid it may give in the etiologic diagnosis of dizziness.
Original Article
Histoplasmosis of the Upper Respiratory Tract
Localized lesions may represent either a sign of disseminated disease or as a residual focus after the lesion at the portal of entry, the lung, has become inactive. In any event it offers interesting problems in diagnosis.
Original Article
X-Ray Studies of the Lumbosacral Spine
The authors recommend the use of x-ray studies in several positions to aid in the evaluation of disturbances in the lumbosacral spine. They have added films made in the standing position and lateral views in flexion and extension to their diagnostic armamentarium.
Original Article
Post-Concussion Syndrome: Its Etiology and Treatment by Inhalation of Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen
The author is evaluating treatment in a condition difficult of diagnosis because of the large subjective element in the patient’ complaints. He makes a good case for his method of treatment. Confirmation of these results by others is imperative, particularly so in the cases of many months’ duration.
Original Article
The Dinner Seminar in a Program for General Practitioners
The author has described what he believes to be a most successful method of developing psychiatric attitudes and technics for the family physician.
Original Article
The Change in Treatment Methods on an Intensive Treatment Service
Without a doubt the psychotropic drugs have hastened the control of psychiatric episodes in a high percentage of patients to make them more amenable to immediate psychotherapy. Furthermore, they permit the patient to return to, and to live in his home community.
Original Article
Smoking and Health: Florida’s Approach to the Problem
Florida has faced the incontrovertible evidence that cigarette smoking has a large role in the pathogenesis of carcinoma of the lung, larynx and mouth, pulmonary emphysema and coronary artery disease. It faces, too, the probability of greater success in prophylaxis, avoidance of the habit in youth, than in breaking the…
Original Article
Medical Grand Rounds from the University of Alabama Medical Center
Original Article
Solitary Nodular Synovitis: A Traumatic Lesion?
The author has shown that under certain circumstances blood clots in a joint may cause solitary nodular synovial lesions. Yet in no case was there evidence that this would have progressed to villonodular synovitis.
Original Article
The Non-Metastatic Neurologic Complications of Malignant Neoplasms
Though neurologists have become quite aware of these complications, particularly in recent years, family doctors and other attending physicians not infrequently have no knowledge of the several syndromes which fall into this category. It is highly possible that these non-metastatic effects of malignancy upon the central nervous system partake of…
Original Article
Fluid and Electrolyte Changes Associated with Transurethral Prostatic Resection
Though the complications from absorption of irrigating fluid during this operation have been recognized for some time, the physiologic and biochemical changes accompanying this absorption have not been well known. Therefore the studies reported here should be of great interest
Original Article
The Response of Various Skin Lesions to Oral Sulfur-35
Though the use of radioactive sulfur may be effective in the treatment of skin lesions such as mycosis fungoides, it is not demonstrated that it is more so than conventional x-ray therapy. Results suggest that more experimental use will be necessary to establish the value of this form of irradiation…
Southern Medical News
Southern Medical News
Announcement
Washington, D. C. – Host of SMA’s 60th Annual Meeting
Washington – a city of grandeur and simplicity, of protocol and leisure, of political pulse and friendly warmth – is part of call for Southern Medical Association’s Sixtieth Annual Meeting, November 14-17, 1966.
