LYMPHOMA of the brain is a rare type of Central-nervous-system cancer. In a review spanning 25 years,¹ fewer than 25 cases were noted. Little is known about the origin of this tumor. Early reports² emphasized its relation to renal transplantation and ...

DESPITE the development of a variety of potent arterial and venous vasodilators,¹ the cardiac glycosides continue to occupy a central role in the therapy of chronic congestive heart failure. As compared with currently available intravenous agents such as ...

OBESITY is a major health problem in many parts of the world, contributing materially to the mortality due to heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes. Numerous investigators have attempted to identify metabolic abnormalities that may have a causal ...

GASTROESOPHAGEAL reflux is a disorder that affects many children. It may produce vomiting with failure to thrive, esophagitis with eventual stricture, pulmonary aspiration with pneumonia, and probably reflex bronchospasm and laryngospasm, potentially ...

IN hereditary fructose intolerance a genetic defect of aldolase "B" severely impairs the enzymatic cleavage of fructose-l-phosphate in the liver, renal cortex, and epithelium of the small bowel — the tissues in which fructose is phosphorylated briskly and ...

SOON after the discovery of x-rays by Roentgen in 1895, an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association ¹ suggested that the new x-rays might have some therapeutic potential. The realization of this potential, however, has been a slow ...

A WIDE variety of solid and hematologic cancers are occasionally accompanied by peripheral-blood eosinophilia,¹ but the mechanisms underlying this curious relationship remain obscure. To elucidate one mechanism that may account for cancer-associated ...

Presentation of Case

A 37-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of jaundice and anemia.

He was well until three months earlier, when weakness developed, accompanied by daily headaches that radiated from the nuchal region over the vertex to the ...

Gastroesophageal reflux, the spontaneous passage of acidic gastric contents from the stomach into the esophagus, occurs frequently throughout life. In a survey of presumably normal adults, 36 per cent had the symptom compatible with gastroesophageal ...

The investigations by Slungaard and colleagues, described in this issue,¹ deal with the mechanism of a spectacular elevation of blood eosinophils in a patient with lung cancer and provide us with a satisfying, although not too surprising, explanation for ...

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To the Editor: Type II primary hyperoxaluria was first described by Williams and Smith in 1968 in four patients, three of whom were siblings.¹ We report the progress of these three cases after 15 years.

Patient ¹, born in 1955, the older brother of the ...

To the Editor: We would like to inject a word of caution regarding the recent extrapolation¹ of the pathophysiologic mechanism underlying salt wasting by sweat glands in cystic fibrosis to a "generalized basic transport defect" responsible for much of ...

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In the preface to his Textbook of General Medicine Kochar states that "the purpose of this book is to provide the student with a course in internal medicine that can be read from cover to cover during an 8-to-12-week rotation in medicine; it contains the ...

As Martinez-Maldonado clearly admits, what started as a "manual" expanded into a "handbook." A major attempt was made to cover virtually every aspect of renal pathophysiology, disease, and therapeutics in one manageable book. This avoidance of a cookbook ...

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Several excellent textbooks on gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders are now available. These books are voluminous authoritative, encyclopedic, and a necessity for specialists in this field. The classical approach employed in such textbooks is that ...

This is the first volume of a series to be known collectively as the Oxford Color Atlases of Pathology. The core of Liver Pathology consists of 432 color plates (gross photographs and photomicrographs) printed on high-quality glossy paper. Although ...

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Biomedical Science

Advances in Immunopharmacology 2. Edited by J. W. Hadden, L. Chedid, P. Dukor, F. Spreafico, and D. Willoughby. 878 pp. New York, Pergamon Press, 1983. $150.

Betaxolol and Other β1-Adrenoceptor Antagonists. (L.E.R.S. Monograph Series. ...

ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

A symposium entitled "Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases: Etiopathogenesis, Epidemiology, Clinical Evaluation. Prevention and Therapy" will be held in Bologna, Italy, November 28–30. The fee is $60.

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Of interest to those in medicine and the other health professions is a study recently completed by the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools.¹ The members of this association are from eight predominantly black health-professions schools: ...