DYSLEXIA is a neurologically based disorder in which there is an unexpected failure to read. As defined by the World Federation of Neurology, the disorder is "manifested by difficulty in learning to read despite conventional instruction, adequate ...

LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA is a common cause of nosocomial and community-acquired pneumonia. In the majority of studies, nosocomial legionellosis has been linked with exposure to contaminated hospital water-distribution systems.^{1 2 3} In contrast, the ...

ALLOGENEIC bone marrow transplantation has become an important treatment for adults with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). A number of programs now report rates of disease-free survival exceeding 45 percent for patients undergoing transplantation in the ...

MICROSPORIDIA are obligate intracellular spore-forming protozoa. Their range of hosts includes most major groups of animals,¹ but they have been recognized infrequently as human pathogens.^{2 3 4} Eight cases of microsporidiosis have been reported among ...

INFERTILITY occurs in approximately 10 to 20 percent of couples and can be attributed to a reproductive disorder in the man or woman with equal frequency.^{1 , 2} Among men, specific causes of infertility can be identified in only a minority.¹ In a ...

THE past decade has witnessed important advances in the field of dermatology, several of which we have selected for review in this paper.

Acne Vulgaris

Acne vulgaris, the most common skin disease seen in dermatologic practice, affects approximately 17 ...

Presentation of Case

A 40-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a productive cough, intermittent hemoptysis, and nondiagnostic findings on bronchoscopic examination.

The patient was well until 2 1/2 years earlier, when she experienced the ...

NEARLY a century has passed since the first published observation that some otherwise normally intelligent children have specific difficulty learning to read. The intervening years have seen both an intense search for the mechanism of this disorder and an ...

THE Leydig cells of the testis produce testosterone in response to stimulation by luteinizing hormone from the anterior pituitary. The stimulus for the synthesis and secretion of luteinizing hormone is gonadotropin-releasing hormone. Gonadotropin-...

The new capacity to transmit information from one computer to another made the introduction of a fully electronic medical journal inevitable. The recent announcement by the American Association for the Advancement of Science that their new Online Journal ...

ACTIVE euthanasia is the deliberate termination of a patient's life in order to prevent further suffering. In ethical discussions this has been seen as different from the withholding of life-sustaining treatment or the administration of a drug, such as ...

To the Editor: In their study of dietary risk factors for colon cancer in women (Dec. 13, 1990, issue),¹ Willett and colleagues should have reported the anatomical sites of the primary colon cancers in their patients.

Data from diverse research ...

To the Editor: Hack and coworkers (July 25 issue)¹ report that preterm infants who have small heads at the age of eight months have reduced neurocognitive abilities at the age of eight years. They suggest that this outcome reflects perinatal brain-growth ...

To the Editor: In 1985 we reported the results of a population-based study of primary tubal infertility in relation to the previous use of an intrauterine device (IUD).¹ Women who had ever used an IUD were found to be at an increased risk of tubal ...

To the Editor: Cytomegalovirus has been documented to be a common gastrointestinal pathogen in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).¹ We describe the antemortem diagnosis of cytomegalovirus pancreatitis in a patient with AIDS through the use of ...

To the Editor: Juvenile laryngotracheobronchial papillomatosis is characterized by multiple epithelial tumors that have a relentless tendency to recur. The clinical course may be complicated by airway obstruction, hemoptysis, and malignant transformation ...

To the Editor: Dr. Relman's recent Shattuck Lecture on the health care industry (Sept. 19 issue)* was a thoughtful and provocative discussion of the changing relationship between physicians and health entities in a market-driven system. Although I find ...

To the Editor: The status of tattooing is changing, and it should be reexamined. Tattoos make statements about affections, allegiance, defiance, or sexual preference, or are simply "body art." Insoluble particles are injected and phagocytosed by dermal ...

If only one book about surgery could be made available to physicians from all specialties, it should probably be Silen's recent revision of Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen. Since this book first appeared more than 30 years ago, it has remained ...

This book is an excellent complete treatise on the early management of the patient with trauma. The general principles of trauma care, as well as organ-specific management problems, are described in a clear, concise fashion by an impressive group of ...

To some, the shoulder has been the neglected joint, even though Codman published his classic book on this subject in 1934 and there have been at least eight books devoted to surgery of the shoulder since that time.

In some respects Surgical Disorders of ...

This second edition of Current Therapy in Vascular Surgery is an outstanding book, which provides a source of contemporary knowledge for clinicians, residents, and medical students. The book covers the entire spectrum of vascular diseases, including those ...

This atlas of esophageal surgical procedures is the second in a series entitled Surgical Practice Illustrated, under the overall editorship of David B. Skinner, the author of this atlas. Dr. Skinner is extraordinarily well equipped for the task, for he ...

This concise monograph on soft-tissue sarcomas is the latest contribution to the series of short books entitled Cancer Treatment and Research. This volume focuses on the various aspects of current multimodality therapy, with most chapters written by world-...

This book is the sixth in an annual series published by the UCLA Tissue Typing Laboratory. The series has become, in a sense, the almanac of transplantation, providing a statistical summary of current clinical results, both from a variety of registries ...

Why a third textbook in plastic and reconstructive surgery? With Grabb and Smith's Plastic Surgery (4th ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991), a basic condensed textbook for students and residents, and McCarthy's Plastic Surgery (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, ...

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Abstracts are now being accepted for "Biotech '92," an ...