Expired CME Article
Articular Cartilage Injuries in the Athlete’s Knee: Current Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment
Expired CME Article – Articular Cartilage Injuries in the Athlete’s Knee: Current Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment
SMJ // August 2004, Volume 97 - Issue 8
Expired CME Article
Injuries to The Shoulder in Athletes
Expired CME Article – Injuries to The Shoulder in Athletes
Expired CME Article
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture
Expired CME Article – Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture
Expired CME Article
Fractures of the Hand and Carpal Navicular Bone in Athletes
Expired CME Article – Fractures of the Hand and Carpal Navicular Bone in Athletes
Expired CME Article
Neurapraxia, “Stingers,” and Spinal Stenosis in Athletes
Expired CME Article – Neurapraxia, “Stingers,” and Spinal Stenosis in Athletes
Expired CME Credit Submission and Evaluation Form
CME Credit—August 2004 Featured CME Topic: Sports Medicine
Expired CME Credit Submission and Evaluation Form – Sports Medicine
Case Report
Trichofolliculoma with Incidental Focal Acantholytic Dyskeratosis
Incidental focal acantholytic dyskeratosis has been described in a variety of cutaneous lesions, including benign and malignant epithelial lesions, fibrohistiocytic lesions, inflammatory lesions, and melanocytic lesions. It has also been observed in follicular lesions such as comedones and ruptured follicles. We report the case of a 47-year-old man with a…
Editorial
The Changing Impact of Lifestyle and Health
Our society has evolved in a remarkable way. When humans first appeared, they were essentially hunters. Survival could be assured only by hunting and not being hunted themselves. Although humans were at a physical disadvantage compared to other predators, they were able to mobilize available resources so that they might…
Case Report
The Femoral Gateway
A patient who abused cocaine intravenously had an abscess in the groin, which healed to form a sinus tract leading directly to the wall of the femoral vein. She used this “gateway” as her primary means of venous access for the next 5 years. It was both “painless and brainless”…
Case Report
The Greenfield Filter as a Potential Hazard to the Operating Surgeon
The Greenfield filter and similar devices are placed in the vena cava of patients who have contraindications to anticoagulation, but who would otherwise be at risk of pulmonary embolism without such anticoagulation. Injury to a health care worker from one of these devices has been reported in the case of…
Case Report
Multifocal Skeletal Tuberculosis
Multifocal skeletal tuberculosis is defined as osteoarticular lesions that occur simultaneously at two or more locations. We present radiologic findings in two cases of multifocal osteoarticular tuberculosis. Differential diagnoses of such lesions, based on different radiologic modalities, can include metastatic disease, eosinophilic granuloma, or lymphoma. Since tuberculosis can be present…
Case Report
Disseminated Candida tropicalis in a Patient with Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis
Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis is a heterogeneous group of immunodeficiencies associated with persistent candidal infections. Patients with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis are rarely associated with systemic infections caused by other fungi, but almost never by Candida. The authors report a case of a 16-year-old with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis who developed a fungemia…
Original Article
Tree Stand Falls: A Persistent Cause of Sports Injury
Objective: Tree stand falls are a well-known cause of hunting-related injury. Spine and brain injuries associated with these falls result in a significant incidence of permanent disability. Prior studies indicate that hunting tree stand injuries are largely preventable with the proper use of safety belts; however, compliance with safety belt…
Original Article
Ulnar Nerve Injury Associated with Trampoline Injuries
Objective: This study reports three cases of ulnar neuropathy after trampoline injuries in children. Methods: A chart review was performed on children who sustained an ulnar nerve injury from a trampoline accident. In all cases, surgical intervention was required. Results: Injuries included upper-extremity fractures in two cases and an upper-extremity…
Original Article
Does Intraoperative Electromyographic Monitoring in Lumbar Microdiscectomy Correlate with Postoperative Pain?
Objectives: Our objective was to correlate the findings of intraoperative electromyographic (EMG) monitoring with immediate postoperative pain in patients undergoing lumbar microdiscectomy. Methods: A total of 112 patients undergoing de novo lumbar microdiscectomy were prospectively randomized into a control group (n = 45) and a study group (n = 67)…
Original Article
Emergency Department Volume and Acuity as Factors in Patients Leaving Without Treatment
Objectives: Patients who leave emergency departments (EDs) without treatment represent potential personal and hospital liability. Many department-dependent factors have been linked to patients who leave without treatment (LWT) in high-volume EDs. The authors studied how department volume and acuity influence LWTs in a small, low-volume, university-affiliated ED. Methods: Through retrospective…
Expired CME Article
Injuries to the Foot and Ankle in Athletes
Expired CME Article – Injuries to the Foot and Ankle in Athletes
Case Report
Marijuana-induced Transient Global Amnesia
A 6-year-old boy accidentally became intoxicated with marijuana secondary to ingesting cookies laced with marijuana. He presented with retentive memory deficit of sudden onset that was later diagnosed as transient global amnesia. Transient global amnesia as a result of marijuana intoxication is an extremely rare event.
Case Report
Zolpidem for Postanoxic Spasticity
A 28-year-old male sustained anoxic brain damage following aborted cardiac arrest, and subsequently developed severe muscular rigidity and spasticity involving all extremities. The spasticity was refractory to the standard regimens used for spastic hypertonia. Zolpidem dramatically inhibited muscular rigidity, spasticity, and dystonic posturing in a dose-dependent manner, resulting in a…
Case Report
Biceps Pain as the Presenting Symptom of Parkinson Disease: Effective Treatment with L-dopa
Parkinson disease can present remarkably as shoulder pains that may long precede the clinical diagnosis. A case is presented in which, during a 2-year period, both lower biceps brachii became exquisitely painful, with both the pain and the “frozen shoulders” responding promptly to the initiation of L-dopa therapy.
Editorial
Trichofolliculoma with Incidental Acantholytic Dyskeratosis
Bogle, Cohen, and Tschen have presented a new clinical association for the dermatopathologic changes of acantholytic dyskeratosis. This uncommon histologic marker is characteristic of Darier disease, but can also be seen in a number of other entities. 1 Trichofolliculomas are small, solitary tumors usually occurring on the face, but occasionally…
Expired CME Article
Selected Books
Selected books are appropriate and available for further reading and as in-depth references for the sports medicine issues discussed in this CME symposium. We have attempted to cover the main issues involving the musculoskeletal, the non musculoskeletal, and those that are administrative or societal related. The authors are leaders in…
Letter to the Editor
Physician Values and Medical Decisions
To the Editor: Neumann and Olive 1 surveyed a national sample of family practitioners and psychiatrists. Family practitioners were generally more supportive of religious activities than psychiatrists. This letter reports further analyses of this survey data set, in order to assess the extent to which specific self-identified religious values affected…
Letter to the Editor
Use of Cryotherapy to Isolate Infected Extremities During Amputation
To the Editor: Patients with gangrenous or necrotizing infections of the extremities causing hemodynamic instability can often be resuscitated before amputation by using cryotherapy to isolate the infection from the circulation. 1 The extremity is packed in dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide), the patient is adequately resuscitated, and amputation can…
Letter to the Editor
Black Strap Molasses for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease-associated Anemia
To the Editor: Molasses is the final effluent obtained in the preparation of sucrose by repeated evaporation, crystallization, and centrifugation of juices from sugar cane and sugar beets. Black strap molasses is essentially the residue remaining after the final extraction of sucrose in the processing of sugar cane. It is…
Patient's Page
The Patient’s Page
We are excited to introduce a new component to the Southern Medical Journal—The Patient’s Page. In an effort to provide continuing education to our patient population, each issue will contain a condensed version of various Journal articles which we feel are most likely to be of interest to your patients….
