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B S Rose

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PubMed1988

Pyelosinus extravasation and urinoma associated with malignancy. Computed tomography demonstration.

We report 3 cases of abdominal malignancy with urinary tract obstruction and pyelosinus extravasation. Urinomas were present in 2 cases. The computed tomographic findings are emphasized, including the distribution of the extravasated urine reflecting the partitioning in the perirenal space. The cases presented within an eighteen-month period suggest pyelosinus extravasation and urinoma formation may not be uncommon in malignant disease affecting the retroperitoneum and pelvis.

Abdominal Neoplasms↗
PubMed1987

Percutaneous transfemoral placement of the Kimray-Greenfield vena cava filter.

In 109 patients in whom inferior vena caval interruption was indicated to prevent pulmonary embolism, Kimray-Greenfield (K-G) filters were inserted from a percutaneous transfemoral approach, 94 from the right common femoral vein and 15 from the left common femoral vein. All attempts at transfemoral filter insertion were successful except in two patients in whom a left common femoral approach was used. No complications occurred during insertion. In four patients, clinical evidence of femoral vein thrombosis ensued within 48 hours of filter insertion. There were no complications related to filter migration, and in 97% of patients the alignment was satisfactory. The percutaneous transfemoral route is a rapid and effective method for inserting K-G filters. The most frequent postinsertion complication was femoral vein thrombosis (ten patients), but only two patients suffered permanent sequelae.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1987

Anthropometric and computerized tomographic measurements of lower extremity lean body mass.

The loss of lean muscle mass is one of the hallmarks of protein-calorie malnutrition. Anthropometry is a standardized technique used to assess the response of muscle mass to nutrition therapy by quantifying the muscle and fat compartments. That technique does not accurately reflect actual limb composition, whereas computerized tomography does. Twenty lower extremities on randomly chosen men and women patients were evaluated by anthropometry and computerized tomography. Total area, muscle plus bone area, total volume, and muscle plus bone volume were correlated, using Heymsfield's equation and computerized tomography-generated areas. Anthropometrics overestimated total and muscle plus bone cross-sectional areas at almost every level. Anthropometry overestimated total area and total volume by 5% to 10% but overestimated muscle plus bone area and muscle plus bone volume by as much as 40%. Anthropometry, while easily performed and useful in large population groups for epidemiological studies, offers a poor assessment of lower extremity composition. On the other hand, computerized tomography is also easily performed and, while impractical for large population groups, does offer an accurate assessment of the lower extremity tissue compartments and is an instrument that might be used in research on lean muscle mass.

Adipose Tissue↗
PubMed1985

Frozen shoulder.

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Diagnosis, Differential↗
PubMed1978

Naproxen in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

Naproxen, a new nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory analgesic drug was found to be better than placebo and as effective as indomethacin in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The drug was well tolerated, and appears to be a useful alternative to more established medication such as aspirin.

Arthritis, Rheumatoid↗
PubMed1976

Familial reactive arthritis of Reiter's and ankylosing spondylitis types in the HLA-27 genotype.

The close relationship between Reiter's disease and ankylosing spondylitis, which had previously been suspected on the grounds of family and population studies, has been re-emphasised following the recent demonstration of their common close association with the HLA-27 genotype. Nevertheless there are few case reports of both conditions occurring simultaneously in first degree relatives; and documentation of HLA genotype in such families was not generally considered before 1973. Both varieties of reactive arthritis are reported here as occurring in first degree relatives sharing HLA-27 genotype.

Adult↗
PubMed1975

Gout in Maoris.

Historical evidence suggests that the Maori people of New Zealand were virtually untroubled by gout or obesity at a time when these disorders, along with other elements of the gouty diathesis, were rife in the best fed and hardest drinking sections of the Northern European population. By the mid 20th century, however, the apparent decline of the gout in Europe and North America and the breakup of the gouty diathesis in those lands had been more than compensated by their large-scale reappearance in the Maori and in other indigenous inhabitants of the Pacific Basin who, at first sight, appeared to have become one large gouty family. Half the Polynesian population of New Zealand, Rarotonga, Puka Puka, and the Tokelau Islands proved to be hyperuricemic by accepted European and North American standards, the associated gout rate reaching 10.2% in Maori males aged 20 and over. The trends towards hyperuricemia and gout, on the one hand, and towards obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and associated degenerative vascular disorders, on the other hand, which manifest themselves separately in some Polynesian Pacific Islanders, run together in the Maori and Samoan people, presenting a combined problem of considerable importance to the public health. The appearance of these traits under conditions of plenty in the descendants of hardy and wide-ranging Polynesian voyagers, suggests the emergence of a formerly favorable ancestral polygenic variation through selection for survival under harder conditions. This may now have lost its primitive survival value with a paradoxic shift towards increased prevalence of obesity and the gouty diathesis in more affluent environmental conditions. This may now constitute a genetic load, with recent environmentally determined increase in morbidity and mortality rates from degenerative vascular disorders. There is no satisfactory evidence that overproduction of uric acid differs in mechanism from its European counterparts, although more work remains to be done to determine whether there is any difficulty in renal handling of an increased uric acid load. A high Maori morbidity rate from gout and morbidity and mortality rates from associated components of the gouty diathesis in the face of readily available skilled medical advice and care, indicate the need for greater future attention to help education and health care delivery, at least while conditions of plenty continue. Continuation of previous epidemiologic surveillance may then be required in order to provide a continuing index of the effectiveness of these measures, as well as an opportunity for further research into the interrelationships of these associated disorders.

Adult↗