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G Mortier

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PubMed1976

Gastric xanthoma.

Gastric xanthoma (GX) consists of a small yellowish lesion of the gastric mucosa, frequently of multiple occurrence; histologically, there is an accumulation of lipid-laden histiocytes in the lamina propria. Seven cases are reported. One patient also had jejunal localizations. There is no correlation with hypercholesterolemia but in four cases a slight hypertriglyceridemia was found. A control gastroscopy, performed in four cases, revealed no changes in the first patient but a decrease in size in a second and the disappearance of GX in two other patients.

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A retrospective study of the conservative treatment of tennis-elbow.

The files of 64 patients (70 tennis elbows) treated in our department because of tennis elbow complaints, were reviewed. The results showed injection with a corticosteroid preparation to be effective in alleviating the pain in the short term (91% improvement within 1 week), but the incidence of recurrence of symptoms to be high (51%) after an average period of 3 months). Physical therapy appeared to be less effective (47% improvement after an average of 6 weeks or 20 sessions), but recurrence of symptoms was far less frequent (5%).

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[Correlation between motor terminal latency time of the median nerve and the result of conservative treatment (cortisone injection) in carpal tunnel syndrome].

45 patients with carpal tunnel syndrome could be followed after an initial conservative treatment (local injection with Depomedrol 40 mg) either up to a surgical intervention (15 patients) or up to 14 to 48 months after the first injection (mean 23 months). Pregnant patients were excluded, as well as the patients with a distal motor latency (DML) greater than or equal to 7 msec (immediate surgical intervention). The age and sex distribution corresponds with the data reported in the literature: 7 males (15%) versus 38 females (85%), including 7 between 20 and 39 years (16%), 24 between 40 en 59 years (53%) and 14 between 60 and 80 years (31%). The side of the complaints also corresponds with the literature data: bilateral 16 (36%), right hand 23 (51%), left hand 6 (13%). In the 16 patients with a DML greater than 5,5 msec (normal value up to 4.3 msec) a rapid recurrence of the complaints after the injections necessitated a surgical intervention in 12 cases. In the 29 patients with a DML less than or equal to 5.5 msec who had been operated, the improvement of the complaints after the first injection lasted 2 months at most in 8 cases, as opposed to an average of 12.5 months (0 to 48 months) for the population as a whole.

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