We have previously reported on scintigraphic visualization of myocardial infarction in man with use of thallium-201.¹ The detection of infarction with this radionuclide was demonstrated to be a practical, fast and safe method. For practical application of ...

Interest in childhood obesity has developed for several reasons: adult obesity is considered a health hazard, it is all but impossible to treat successfully, and there is suggestive evidence that obese children have a strong tendency to become obese ...

Many immunologically mediated renal diseases result from the deposition of antigen–antibodycomplement complexes within the glomerular capillary wall, frequently in a subepithelial position.^{1 , 2} The precise mechanism whereby these immune complexes become ...

Failure of a testis to descend into the scrotum before puberty is associated with impaired spermatogenesis in that testis.^{1 , 2} Quantitative histologic evaluation of biopsy specimens from undescended testes shows progressively severe abnormalities with ...

The relatively recent discovery of medical schools and universities that a population of people actually lived and existed outside the confines of the traditional university teaching institutions, particularly the teaching hospital, has led to an eruption ...

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Although the number of well controlled studies now exceeds the four identified a decade ago,¹ they clarify the role of portasystemic venous shunts for treatment of hepatic disease only a little better. Proper investigations based on ...

Glucocorticoids, such as hydrocortisone, cortisone, prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone, are commonly used systemically for the treatment of a wide variety of illnesses, including asthma, sarcoidosis, nephrotic syndrome, ulcerative colitis, ...

During the course of a decade as a forensic pathologist, I have watched with interest the individual and collective reaction of others to what I do, or, more properly, to what they think I do. Their confusion is valid; forensic pathology is the invisible ...

Presentation of Case

A 32-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of meningitis.

He was well until five years previously, when fatigue, weight loss, sweats and fever developed. A lymph-node biopsy disclosed Hodgkin's disease, nodular-sclerosis ...

Seeking surgical relief for her morbid obesity, a patient epitomized her resolution in this way: "I always thought I had a 'condition.' Now I know I have a disease. A disease can be treated." Evidence like the article in this issue of the Journal (p. 6) ...

Editors receive criticisms from many sources, and their families are no exception. A month ago, my daughter-in-law, who had been invited by the Massachusetts General Hospital to discuss a clinicopathological conference, complained that her first name on ...

Those involved in the admission of medical students have long debated the utility of a matching program in selecting classes from a pool of applicants. In such a program each applicant ranks the institutions to which he or she applies, and the committees ...

Primary cesarean section yielded the second stillborn infant of a 37-year-old gravida 6 at 29 weeks' gestation.

The first pregnancy had aborted spontaneously at eight weeks when the patient was 24 years of age. The next two were concluded at term without ...

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To the Editor: We submit additional findings concerning the evolution of alpha fetoprotein in maternal serum and in amniotic fluid during pregnancy. The alpha-fetoprotein levels of 440 amniotic fluids and 469 maternal serums were studied at different ...

To the Editor: With their case-controlled study of the purported association between long-term use of oral contraception and benign hepatoma (N Engl J Med 294:470–472, 1976) Edmondson et al. have strengthened the case for such an association, which, ...

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To the Editor: Chamberlin and Radebaugh may have left the reader with some confusion about priorities and operational detail in their recent discussion of United Farm Worker clinics.¹ As physicians who worked at the Delano and Salinas clinics for three ...

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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY

The American Academy of Clinical Toxicology will convene its annual meeting at the Olympic Hotel, Seattle, Washington, August 4–6.

Further information may be obtained from Dr. Barry Rumack, Rocky Mountain Poison ...

Manuscripts

Manuscripts of Original and Special Articles are accepted for consideration with the understanding that they, or their essential substance, tables or figures, have been neither published in nor submitted to any type of publication circulated ...