RECENTLY developed techniques for detecting lymphocyte-surface markers have proved valuable in the diagnosis and classification of lymphoid neoplasms.^{1 2 3 4} The subdivision of lymphoid cancers based on such surface-antigen characterization has made an ...

PRELEUKEMIC syndromes are a group of acquired bone-marrow disorders characterized by progressive impairment in the maturation of hematopoietic cells.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7} The course is highly variable, and a substantial proportion of patients die of complications ...

MASTOCYTOSIS is a rare disorder characterized by abnormal proliferation of mast cells in a variety of tissues, particularly the skin.¹ The disease is chronic in adults and is often transient in infants. Cutaneous mastocytosis, also called urticaria ...

REITER'S syndrome or disease is a well-recognized condition. It is now some 40 years since Bauer and Engleman proposed that the concurrence of a polyarthritis or monoarthritis, nongonococcal urethritis, and ocular inflammation should be regarded as a ...

THE biologic processes that govern the absorption of a drug into the body and its elimination from it are important determinants of its pharmacologic effect and toxicity. Absorption occurs after administration of a drug parenterally or via the ...

ALDOSTERONE deficiency is a well-described phenomenon, occurring most commonly in states of primary adrenocortical insufficiency, in which autoimmune processes, tuberculosis, hemorrhage, and other destructive diseases result in deficiencies of both ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 40-year-old black woman was admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of a ruptured intracranial aneurysm.

She was well until 10 days earlier, when a severe headache developed abruptly. She was taken to another ...

Physicians have long been concerned about the Christian Science view of human illness and its implications for the treatment of the sick. In focusing on the belief that disease "is in the last analysis produced by a radically limited and distorted view of ...

Cytarabine is the mainstay of current treatment for acute myeloblastic leukemia and is associated with an expected remission rate of more than 50 per cent. Reasons for failure include not only resistance of leukemic cells to drugs but also complications ...

Christian Science was developed in the late 19th century as one of many drugless healing methods. Its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, repeatedly called it a system of medicine.^{1 , 2} She founded her Massachusetts Metaphysical College "for medical purposes,"³ and ...

Christian Scientists are caring and responsible people who love their children and want only the best possible care for them. They would not have relied on Christian Science for healing — sometimes over four and even five generations in the same family — ...

Fulminating eclampsia developed in a 34-year-old gravida III para I at the gestational age of 34 weeks.

The previous term pregnancy had been uncomplicated, ending 15 months earlier in a normal vaginal delivery. The history was unremarkable, specifically ...

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To the Editor: In the July 28 issue Kapoor et al. discussed the prospective evaluation and outcome of patients with syncope.¹ We have recently completed a prospective study of patients with syncope and have reported findings that are dissimilar.²

We ...

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To the Editor: Hypoplastic acute leukemia is a distinct nosologic entity that primarily affects older patients (median age, 68 years) and is characterized by pancytopenia and a hypocellular bone marrow with more than 30 per cent myeloblasts.¹ Remission-...

To the Editor: The myelodysplastic syndromes are a heterogenous group of clonal bone-marrow stem-cell disorders characterized by peripheral cytopenias in the presence of a normocellular or hypercellular marrow, together with distinctive morphologic ...

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Essentials of Clinical Neurology was "written for the use of medical students and house officers during their initial exposure to clinical neurology." Clinical Neurology: The resident's guide was written for "teaching neurology to non-neurology ...

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The observation that neurology is a field strong on diagnosis but weak on therapy is being heard less often. There are rapid advances in treatment of such disorders as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease, and a number of textbooks of neurologic therapeutics ...

The first of these two books focuses on head-trauma victims, whose problems are often strikingly different from those affected by other kinds of brain damage, such as stroke. It is, as a preface promises, "comprehensive," following patients from the ...

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The stated purpose of this monograph is to provide physicians with sufficient information to permit an individualized approach to the pharmacologic care of a person in pain. It is divided into three major sections. The first is a rather detailed ...

This is the first volume of a projected set by these authors on the controversial topic of myofascial pain. This superb book should be valuable to all health-care professionals — not only to those involved in the interdisciplinary approach to pain ...

The receipt of these 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.

Addresses of most overseas publishers ...

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY

A workshop entitled "Electrocardiography for Physicians" will be held at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Beach, Fla., January 12–15. The fee is $200.

Contact Anne S. Criss, Rogers Heart Fdn., St. Anthony's Hospital, St. ...