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K Roggenkamp

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PubMed2000

[Small intestinal transit with radio-opaque markers to localize intermittent small bowel obstruction] .

AIM: In difficult diagnostic cases of partial small bowel obstruction, radiopaque, non-digestible markers were used to challenge and localize the site of obstruction. MATERIAL AND METHOD: 32 patients (19 female, 13 male, 3-80 years) were examined. Each patient received 20 4-mm radiopaque markers orally. Abdominal radiographs were obtained at 4-8 h intervals. Mechanical obstruction was defined as the clustering of at least 3 markers for 4 hours or longer. The transit of radiopaque markers was compared to plain radiography, ultrasound, barium meal, computed tomography, enteroclysis and operative findings. RESULTS: 18 of 32 patients showed small bowel clustering suggestive of obstruction. Diagnostic agreement was found in 12 of 14 cases with ultrasound, in 7 of 13 cases with plain radiography and in 3 of 6 cases with enteroclysis. 13 of the 18 patients with clustering had surgery. All of them (13/13) had adhesions with the need of resection. CONCLUSION: This investigation is an alternative diagnostic method for the decision between conservative and surgical treatment in cases of intermittent partial small bowel obstruction.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1995

[Invasion of the growth plate by bone tumors and osteomyelitis in childhood].

Crossing of the physis by primarily metaphyseal, localized bone tumors and osteomyelitis in childhood was rarely observed. Therefore, the physis in childhood is considered to be a barrier against the spread of tumors and infection. We report five children, in whom MR imaging demonstrated early crossing of the physis and spread of the disease from the metaphysis to the epiphysis. Follow-up in three children with osteomyelitis showed that antibiotic therapy resulted in almost complete resolution of the changes in the physis, epiphysis and metaphysis. These observations challenge the concept of the physis as a barrier against the spread of tumors and infection.

Arthritis, Infectious↗
PubMed1994

The boneless neonate: a severe form of achondrogenesis type I.

We report a case of a severe form of achondrogenesis type I. Prenatal ultrasonography showed a micromelic fetus; bony structures could not be identified. Postnatal radiographs revealed some foci of ossification in the ossa ilia, the clavicles, the upper and the lower jaw and the base of the skull. The long bones, the vertebral column and the ribs were not visible. The diagnosis was established by histologic examination of the growth plates.

Achondroplasia↗
PubMed1989

Robinow syndrome with parental consanguinity.

We describe the clinical features of Robinow syndrome in the first child of a consanguineous Turkish couple. This observation supports the view that severe vertebral anomalies are a feature of the autosomal-recessive form of Robinow syndrome.

Abnormalities, Multiple↗
PubMed1987

[Comparison of Blount's sling and Kirschner wire fixation in the treatment of a dislocated supracondylar humeral fracture in childhood].

From 1979 to 1982 we were treating 63 cases of displaced supracondylar fractures of the humerus. Patients underwent either closed reduction and fixation by collar and cuff immobilization (32 cases), or fixation by means of Kirschner wires following closed or (more often) open reduction (31 cases). Follow-up controls after an average time of three years clearly showed the more favourable results of the conservative method.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1978

[Wolman's disease].

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Cholesterol Esters↗
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[Total laryngo-tracheo-esophageal cleft with situs inversus totalis, aplasia of the right diaphragm and hypoplasia of the lung on the right side].

A report is presented on a newborn with congenital malformations of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract associated with total laryngo-tracheo-oesophageal cleft (type III). The history, the clinical course with respiratory distress after birth, the intra vitam diagnostic procedures with x-ray and laryngoscopy and the autopsy are reported. Additionally a situs inversus totalis, an aplasia of the right diaphragm and a hypoplasia of the lung on the right side were found. To the best of our knowledge this type of association has not been previously reported.

Diaphragm↗