Article
Management of Hand Injuries
The authors have emphasized those details of management, over and above the actual surgical procedure, that lead to the ultimate successful outcome of treatment.
SMJ // August 1969, Volume 62 - Issue 8
Article
Carcinoma of the Cervix Associated with Pregnancy
The authors emphasize the need for cytologic examination on the first prenatal visit. They consider the management, including biopsy and conization which may be done often without impairing the progress of the pregnancy.
Article
Paresis of the Superior Oblique Surgical Correction: Resect or Tuck?
The author believes there are indications for both operations, each in special circumstances.
Article
Trial of Labor after Low Segment Cesarean Section
This study in permitting forty-three women who had had previous cesarean section to go through a test of labor revealed no undue hazard. Twenty-six were delieverd successfully by the vaginal route.
Article
Pyoderma Gangrenosum
This progressive necrotizing and ulcerative disease of the skin presents serious problems in management. Its association with chronic ulcerative colitis in many instances offers opportunities for speculation as to its etiology, which is far from clear. Fortunately treatment is successful in most instances with reliance upon sulfonamides, and steroids for…
Article
Ocular Defects Associated with Homocystinuria
In this study ocular defects outnumbered mental defects. This may represent bias in selection because of the source of a goodly percentage of the patients studied, namely school for the blind.
Article
Tibia Fractures
The authors have demonstrated that weight-bearing management of tibial fractures is very successful in eliminating nonunion. Healing takes place without undue shortening.
Article
The Polyphasic Spike Phenomenon
The authors suggest that the electroencephalographic findings described may be indicative of a benign form of epilepsy. They substantiate this by a high incidence of accompanying seizures in the younger years of life. But, by contrast with the EEG abnormalities in adult epileptics (centrencephalic or temporal focal epilepsy) they rarely…
Article
Combined Treatment for Cancer of the Hypopharynx: A Preliminary Report
The author has described his results with a more conservative approach to selected patients. A combination of cobalt therapy and radical neck surgery points to success in a greater number of patients.
Article
Results of Treatment of the Painful Hip with a Hanging Hip Operation: A Preliminary Report
The authors are satisfied with the gradual appearance of great improvement following this operation for osteoarthropathy of the hip.
Book Review
Atlas of Surgical Operations. Vol. 2
Book Review
Current Therapy 1968
Book Review
A Textbook of Neurology
Book Review
Dysphasia
Case Report
A Sequestered Ovary as a Loose Peritoneal Body
Case Report
Electromyographic Studies in Idiopathic Scoliosis
The authors have shown muscular activity by electromyography in some instances of spinal curvature. Such activity is likely to indicate progression of the disease and thus aids in prognosis and indications for spinal fusion.
Case Report
Juvenile Angiofibroma
The juvenile angiofibroma is an uncommon lesion which occurs most commonly in the nasopharynx of adolescent males. This article reviews the incidence, etiology, clinical picture and therapeutic approaches to this unsual lesion.
Case Report
Reiter’s Disease Associated with Shigellosis
This communication reports the interesting association of Reiter’s disease and bacillary dysentery. The diverse manifestations of Reiter’s disease and its possible etiologies are discussed.
Case Report
Microinvasive Carcinoma of the Cervix
This study indicates that microinvasive carcinoma of the cervix behaves more like carcinoma in situ than a truly invasive lesion.
Case Report
Increased Intracranial Pressure and the Misuse of Lumbar Puncture
The manipulation of the structures of the central nervous system has an implied hazard, whether it be an arteriogram, pneumoencephalogram, ventriculogram or spinal puncture. Under given circumstances any one of these may be accompanied by complications or death. The authors point to the hazards of the misguided use of the…
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Article
A Study of Hansen’s Disease in Ceylon
Though leprosy as an endemic disease is encountered only rarely along the Gulf Coast and in the seaports of our West Coast, it is a disease of some general interest. One of our Medical Student Representatives has recounted for the Journal some of his interesting experiences in a summer tour…
Article
Small Bowel Changes in Dermatitis Herpetiformis
The relationship of this skin disease to mucosal changes of the small intestine is not clear. Yet the incidence of associated clinical manifestations is high. In some instances there has been evidence of the malabsorption syndrome. Treatment is not consistently effective.
Article
Cutaneous Gumma – A Contemporary Disease
Syphilis is a forgotten disease in the minds of most physicians. Periodically it is well to be reminded that the T pallidum is still with us, that man’s habits and drives are unchanged, and that the late manifestations of syphilis will be encountered upon occasion.
Article
Pregnancy Effect on Subsequent Fertility
Though it has been suggested that removal of the ipsilateral ovary at operation for tubal pregnancy offers a better prognosis both in pregnancies and term pregnancies, the studies reported here do not substantiate this concept.
Article
Diverticular Disease of the Colon
The author reviews the clinical picture in this disease and the indications for surgical treatment. He believes that an ultraconservative attitude is hazardous, and continues to operate upon patients after an individual evaluation.
Article
Symptoms, Syndromes, and Diseases
By use of a questionnaire, the authors were able to segregate into groups, hysterical patients, those in depression and schizophrenic patients.
Article
Scapulocostal Syndrome: Clinical Aspects
Though the cause of this syndrome is not clear, the author has found that massage with ice to the area of the trigger point is very effective in management. Injection of the trigger point with a local anesthetic also may afford relief or cure.
