PubMed Health⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

J de Moor

Publications and source records attributed to J de Moor.

10 recordsLinked to original sources

Functional assessment and treatment of sleeping problems with developmentally disabled children: six case studies.

Sleeping problems are common among developmentally disabled children of young age and they may have adverse effects on the well-being of both child and parents. In the present study, results from functional assessment with four children suggested that sleeping problems were reinforced by parental attention whilst an undiagnosed seizure disorder was associated with nighttime crying with one child. Conditioned anxiety resulted in problems in settling to sleep with a sixth child. Behavioral (i.e., extinction, desensitization) and pharmacological (i.e., anticonvulsant) treatment resulted in a substantial reduction in sleeping problems with all children. Follow-up data indicate that effects were maintained.

Anticonvulsants↗

[Infraclinical breast carcinoma].

Early detection of breast cancer is gaining importance because it leads to reduction of morbidity and mortality rates of this disease. Detection of infraclinical tumors is best accomplished by mammography because of its high sensitivity. Ultrasonography and MR mammography play a complementary role. Ductal carcinoma in situ as well as small invasive tumors can be clinically occult malignant tumors. Preoperative marking should be performed in suspected breast lesions, preferentially by means of a hookwire or carbon. Surgical removal of the lesion is to be verified by intraoperative specimen radiography.

Adenocarcinoma↗

Epidural and subdural contrast in myelography and CT myelography.

A retrospective study of 624 lumbar myelographic and CT myelographic procedures was undertaken to evaluate the frequency, radiographic and clinical relevance of contrast medium outside the dural sac. Our findings indicate that epidural contrast is frequently identified on CT scans with highly sensitive window settings (in 35.4% of all CT myelographic studies). Standard myelographic films are less sensitive for the detection of epidural contrast (9.6%). Subdural contrast is far less often encountered (in 2.4% of CT myelographic studies and in 3.2% of standard myelographic films). We believe leakage of contrast to occur through the puncture site into the epidural and subdural space.

Adult↗

Consequences and complications of glycerol injection in the cavum of Meckel: a series of 120 consecutive injections.

From 1983 to 1989, 120 injections of glycerol into the trigeminal ganglion were performed to treat facialgias of different origin. The subjective and objective consequences and complications are reviewed. Since this operation yielded most often mild, transient and well tolerated consequences and complications for the patient, we now propose this method as first choice for trigeminal neuralgia when there is no anamnestic or clinical evidence of damage to the trigeminal system.

Adolescent↗

MR and CT imaging of paraspinal textiloma (gossypiboma).

This report describes two cases of textiloma (gossypiboma, foreign body granuloma). These so-called "cottonoids" (Codman, U.S.A.) were inadvertently left behind in the operation wound following spinal surgery for an intervertebral disk herniation. Both textilomas were located paraspinally. These relatively uncommon lesions should be differentiated from paraspinal tumors, as well as from other postoperative complications, such as scar formation. Although plain radiography generally gives a characteristic image due to a marking filament, the CT and especially MR findings are less well known.

Adult↗