SMJ // March 1967, Volume 60 - Issue 3
Book Review
Kinesiology
Book Review
Cardiomyopathies
Book Review
Current Practice in Orthopaedic Surgery Volume 2
Clinical Brief
Missed Diagnosis and Von Domarus
Editorial
REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON RESEARCH
Original Article
The Section on Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Review
Original Article
John Locke, Physician and Author of the First Carolina Constitution
John Locke, to most of us, is known as a political philosopher. Possibly many readers are unaware of his medical accomplishments and still more unaware of his role in the history of some of the southern territory. This article should prove to be interesting reading for some.
Original Article
The Teenage Disc Syndrome
The author directs attention to a lesion which often goes unrecognized, since its clinical picture differs from that in adults.
Original Article
Progressive Systemic Scleroderma In a Child: A Case Report
Original Article
Heredity and Endometrial Carcinoma
An area being explored with increasing frequency is the epidemiology of cancer. Improved methods of accumulating and evaluating statistics provide information heretofore unavailable. The hope is to uncover facts which will be helpful in diagnosis and prognosis. Everyone recognizes that satisfactory epidemiologic studies in cancer have been sparse. We may…
Original Article
Radiographic Variations of Heart Size in Tetralogy of Fallot
The authors show that cardiac enlargement may occur in this condition, contrary to common belief. Anemia may be a specific factor in instances of such enlargement.
Original Article
Effective Chemotherapy in Children with Wilms’ Tumor
This paper reviews the experience with the use of either actinomycin D and vincristine alone or in conjunction with surgery or irradiation in the treatment of recurrent or metastatic Wilms’ tumor. The findings support the conclusion that adjuvant chemotherapy with either of these two agents provides effective palliation and significant…
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A Rational Approach to the Management of Hiatal Hernia
The author has had excellent results with surgical repair for hiatal hernia. He emphasizes the indications for hernial repair and the route selected dependent upon the individual case.
Original Article
Oxytetracycline Intravenously in Surgical Infections
The authors believe that the intravenous use of this drug is very helpful in the control of peritonitis and in other forms of sepsis when oral medications cannot be given or are not tolerated.
Original Article
Four Separate Carcinomas in the Same Patient: A Case Report
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Exchange Transfusion in the Treatment of Acute Liver Failure A Preliminary Report
The authors have introduced a new method of attacking a severe complication of liver disease. Scattered reports on the use of this approach are suggestive enough of occasional success that serious thought must be given to outline indications for such treatment and the development of a body of experience to…
Original Article
Juvenile Diabetes: Controlling the Disease and the Patient
The many complex problems associated with juvenile diabetes are outlined in this practical paper. A realistic program of management directed by the physician but involving the patient and his family is described.
Original Article
Treatment of Skin Cancer
If the diagnosis is established early and treatment given promptly, the outlook for this type of cancer is excellent. The authors compare the several methods of treatment available, indications for their choice and the results attained.
Original Article
Cephaloridine Therapy for Genitourinary Infections
The authors have demonstrated the effectiveness of a new antibiotic in genitourinary infections. It seems highly potent and relatively nontoxic.
Original Article
Amebic Liver Abscess
Early diagnosis, morbidity and mortality are less favorable for amebic hepatic abscess in Atlanta than in Korea. The explanation is simply the failure to include this clinical entity in a differential diagnosis of disease of the liver. American clinicians are too commonly unaware of this complication of amebiasis.
Original Article
Primary Macroglobulinemia: Report of a Case and Clinical Discussion
The authors review this interesting clinical condition which offers problems in diagnosis and report a case.
Original Article
Continuing Education For All Of Us
Original Article
Conditioning Factors in Allergic Disease
The authors discuss significant factors which may enhance or condition the clinical response in an allergic person.
Original Article
Medical Grand Rounds from the University of Alabama Medical Center
Original Article
Mixed Tumors of Minor Salivary Glands
Mixed tumors of the minor salivary glands less common than their counterpart in the major glands. Patients may be unaware of their presence. The author reports the unusual complication of serous otitis accompanying such tumors.
