At present, the most effective therapy for patients with regional-lymph-node metastases from malignant melanoma is surgical lymphadenectomy.^{1 2 3 4} However, this treatment often fails.⁵ The treatment failures are seldom the result of uncontrolled primary ...

Although a wealth of information has accumulated regarding the protean manifestations and complications of diabetes mellitus, relatively little information is currently available regarding the effects of this disorder on the integrity and metabolism of ...

Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who are first seen with massive leukemic infiltration, high blast-cell count, and presence of mediastinal mass are known to respond poorly to induction and maintenance therapy and have a decreased survival.^{1 , 2} ...

The problem of calcium oxalate stone formation in the urinary tract has perplexed investigators for many centuries. The simplest hypothesis proposes that the first step in stone formation involves the spontaneous precipitation from urine, excessively ...

Prinzmetal's variant angina, in contrast to angina on effort, occurs almost exclusively at rest, is associated with transient ST-segment elevation, and is frequently accompanied by complete atrioventricular block or ventricular tachycardia. The anginal ...

Does the state hospital have a viable role in caring for acutely and chronically mentally ill persons? This question has been intensely debated for the past decade. At one extreme are those who assert that the state hospital is a costly anachronism ...

A Variety of bone and joint manifestations of Crohn's disease have been reported,^{1 2 3} including ankylosing spondylitis,¹ nonspecific synovitis,⁴ periosteal new-bone formation,^{5 6 7} and aseptic necrosis.⁵ One case of granulomatous synovitis has been ...

The recent development of precise and sensitive radioimmunoassay methods for the measurement of human prolactin has resulted in a large body of data concerning the regulation of this hormone in physiologic and pathologic states.¹ The measurement of plasma ...

At the time of writing the medical profession in Britain is in more serious conflict with the government than ever before. The 19,000 junior doctors in the hospital service are working a strict 40-hour week, and the consultants and specialists have been ...

Presentation of Case

A 65-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of fever.

At the age of 15 years an abscess developed in the vicinity of the right hip and was drained at this hospital. A presumptive diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis secondary ...

Recognition of cell-surface markers for lymphocytes of T-cell or B-cell origin led to the suggestion that leukemias and lymphomas could be classified on the basis of cell origin or cell characteristics. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia has long been ...

Michel de Montaigne, who suffered from kidney stones, expressed his frustrations as a patient by writing:

In my own sickness I have never found three doctors of the same opinion. Aperients, I am advised, are proper for a man afflicted with the stone — by ...

Prinzmetal's variant angina pectoris is a clinical syndrome characterized by recurrent attacks of anginal discomfort at rest associated with transient ST-segment elevation in the electrocardiogram. Attacks are rarely provoked by stress, and exercise ...

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Leo Koss, one of the world's leading research pathologists, has prepared this fascicle for the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. It is certain to create comment — not all of it positive — and debate among his peers. It will clarify some issues for ...

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It is hard to write about behavioral pharmacology for an audience wider than the full-time research workers in the field (the present book is clearly addressed to a much wider audience), because much of the technical vocabulary defies clear translation ...

Teaching by example is no doubt as old as medicine itself. One specific form is called the case method, which uses realistic written examples as the basis for discussion. The case method started when Dean Langdell came to the Harvard Law Schoolin the ...

This book concerns itself exclusively with the in vitro cultivation of human cancer cells (continuous culture of human tumor cells — the now ubiquitous He La-cell line — was obtained by Gey and his colleagues in 1951 ). The long lag between the scientific ...

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Professor Slack is well known internationally as a teacher of dental public health at the post-doctoral level. This volume, edited in collaboration with Brian Burt, also of London Hospital Medical College Dental School, is a comprehensive and well ...

Reviewing this book is like reviewing a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It is a massive book, consisting of 29 chapters dealing with the history of psychiatry in Ancient Greece and Rome, Italy, Spain and Portugal, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, ...

There is a popular assumption that medical therapy in the developed countries is based on the scientific method, and that treatment decisions are rationally derived from valid observations. Yet, in this monograph, one contributing author after another ...

This lucid and generously illustrated book presenting the clinical aspects of sarcoidosis will be of interest to many physicians and medical students. It is intended both to inform those unfamiliar with sarcoidosis and to review the material to the ...

Often, the success of an introductory or review neuroanatomy textbook lies in its ability to captivate the reader with the intrinsic appeal of the graphic illustrations. Demarest, the illustrator of this volume, has done an able job of sculptural ...

The fifth edition of this invaluable textbook appears 35 years after the authors defined its objectives in the preface to its first edition as "the correlation of pharmacology with related medical sciences, the reinterpretation of the actions and uses of ...

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The receipt of the following books is acknowledged, and this listing must be regarded as sufficient return for the courtesy of the sender. Books that appear to be of particular interest will be reviewed as space permits.

Anatomy and Histology

Fetal and ...

REFRESHER COURSE IN GENERAL DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY

The Department of Radiology of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas will sponsor a refresher course entitled "General Diagnostic Radiology," to be held at the Fairmont Hotel, Ross ...