KAWASAKI syndrome is an acute illness of unknown cause that occurs predominantly in infancy and early childhood. First described in Japan in 1967, Kawasaki syndrome is now known to occur in both endemic and communitywide epidemic forms in North America, ...

DYSTONIA musculorum deformans (idiopathic torsion dystonia) is characterized by spasms or muscle contractions that contort the body, forcing it into typical dystonic postures.¹ The symptoms can begin during childhood, in which case the illness is usually ...

AMEBIASIS is a major cause of morbidity and L mortality in tropical areas. Until recently, in the United Kingdom and in many parts of North America, this infection was diagnosed almost exclusively in travelers returning from endemic areas. However, recent ...

BOTH programmed stimulation^{1 2 3 4 5 6} and Holter monitoring^{7 8 9 10} are widely used in the management of malignant ventricular arrhythmias. Both methods are reported to be highly predictive in assessing the efficacy of an antiarrhythmic regimen (with the ...

BARRETT'S esophagus is a condition in which the squamous mucosa that normally lines the distal esophagus is replaced by a columnar epithelium resembling that in the stomach and intestines. This aberrant epithelium may be the site of esophageal ulceration, ...

THE human T-cell lymphotropic viruses Type I (HTLV-I) and Type II (HTLV-II) and the bovine leukemia virus, which are members of a family of leukemogenic mammalian retroviruses, share some of the same structural and functional characteristics. HTLV-I has ...

Presentation of Case

A 39-year-old woman was admitted to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary because of stenosis of the subglottic area and pulmonary artery.

She was well until six years earlier, when she received gunshot wounds to the abdomen and ...

Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (Kawasaki syndrome) is an acute febrile syndrome of unknown origin recognized predominantly in children under nine years of age. The disease was first recognized as a clinical entity in Japan in 1961, by Tomisaku Kawasaki,...

Entamoeba histolytica was first identified as a human pathogen in the 19th century,¹ and it was subsequently given its species name because of its ability to lyse human tissue. Since that time, the approach to this important pathogen has been based ...

IN this issue, Kim and colleagues report interesting results in patients with life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias who underwent both ambulatory (Holter) electrocardiographic monitoring and electrophysiologic study (programmed electrical ...

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To the Editor: The progressive course of HTLV-III/LAV infection has been ascribed to an overall immunosuppressive effect of the virus.^{1 , 2} However, in a group of infected persons, we found that the specific cell-mediated response to HTLV-III was usually ...

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The publication of this bench-mark histology textbook in an 11 th edition is a notable event that many histologists feared would never occur. The 10th edition was published more than a decade ago, and during the ensuing interval, the current author ...

Pathology atlases for medical students may be viewed as a necessary evil. As a rule, pathologists would prefer that students rely on material from class notes, lectures, gross and microscopical laboratories, and major pathology textbooks, rather than ...

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Microbiology is a multifaceted discipline. Within its scope are included some of the most exciting scientific disciplines, such as bacterial genetics and the molecular biology of viruses and bacteria. In addition to its fundamental aspects, microbiology ...

RADIOLOGY

A course entitled "Quantitative Thallium Myocardial Tomography" will be offered in Atlanta, Sept. 15 and 16.

Contact CME, Emory Univ. School of Med., 1440 Clifton Rd. NE, 110 WHSCAB, Atlanta, GA 30322; or call (404) 727–5695.

PEDIATRICS

A course ...