CHRONIC inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy is increasingly being distinguished from acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (Guillain–Barré syndrome) ^{1 2 3 4 5 6} and from a variety of disease-associated ...

CRYPTORCHIDISM, one of the most common disorders of childhood, occurs in approximately 0.8 percent of boys.^{1 2 3} Despite the high frequency of the disorder, relatively little is known about the mechanisms involved in normal and abnormal testicular ...

VARIOUS studies have shown that the intensity of cancer chemotherapy, as measured by either drug dosage or dose rate, can significantly affect the clinical outcome in patients with some drug-sensitive cancers, including breast cancer,^{1 , 2} Hodgkin's and ...

THERAPEUTIC embolization of both extracranial and intracranial vascular lesions is now carried out routinely in specialized centers. One of the agents currently favored for such treatment is bucrylate (isobutyl-2-cyanoacrylate), a rapidly polymerizing ...

IN April 1983, Congress enacted Public Law 98–21, which included the Medicare prospective payment system. Under this system, which is based on a patient-classification system developed by researchers at Yale University, all hospital admissions are ...

CARDIOVASCULAR disease remains the chief cause of death in the United States and Western Europe, and atherosclerosis, the principal cause of myocardial and cerebral infarction, accounts for the majority of these deaths.¹ This review, like its predecessor,^...

Presentation of Case

A 51-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of right flank pain and microscopic hematuria.

She was well until three years earlier, when abdominal pain developed. An intravenous urographic examination, performed elsewhere, ...

An undescended testicle is one of the most common abnormalities of the genitourinary system. A considerable percentage of newborns (2 to 3 percent of fullterm and 15 to 30 percent of premature infants) have a testicle that has not yet descended to the ...

IN biology, the term "cascade" refers to a process that, once started, proceeds stepwise to its full, seemingly inevitable, conclusion. Common examples are the clotting cascade and the complement cascade. Processes that occur in molecular systems often ...

To the Editor: O'Hanley et al. suggest that a vaccine against pyelonephritis might be developed, on the basis of their findings that the Gal–Gal binding adhesin, located on P fimbriae in Escherichia coli, is associated with "pyelonephritogenic" strains (...

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To the Editor: Screening for maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein is now widely employed in the United States because of the availability of commercial test kits¹ and because of a recent liability alert issued by the American College of Obstetrics and ...

To the Editor: In presenting data on the post-transfusion transmission of hepatitis delta virus among carriers of the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), Rosina et al. (June 6 issue)¹ noted that 17 of 20 patients with hemophilia who were positive for ...

To the Editor: Hepatitis B virus DNA sequences have been detected not only in the serum and in the liver of infected patients, but also in several extrahepatic tissues¹ and in some biologic fluids, including saliva, urine, and semen.^{2 , 3} It has not yet ...

To the Editor: Dr. Aubier and his colleagues eloquently demonstrate the relations of hypophosphatemia and its correction to augmentation of transdiaphragmatic pressure and diaphragmatic contractility (August 15 issue).¹ The authors suggest that these ...

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To the Editor: Regulatory genes and the polygenic influences associated with quantitative variation have a critical role in the homeostatic control of development.^{1 2 3} In addition to coordinating the interacting steps in a developmental sequence, they ...

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To the Editor: During the preclinical phase of our medical education, we have noted a disturbing intrusion of legal issues into the medical school classroom. We conducted a survey throughout one semester of our sophomore year of medical school to ...

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Here is an up-to-date description of current practices in obstetrics and gynecology in the United States as they relate to pregnancy and delivery. Although the delivery of a child occurs at a single moment in the development and growth of an individual, ...

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Although injuries are the leading cause of death in children outside of the newborn period, most medical schools and postgraduate training programs have woefully neglected the field of pediatric trauma — to such an extent that physicians entering practice ...

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The following courses will be held in Lexington, ...