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R A Fink

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PubMed1984

Neurosurgical treatment of nonmalignant intractable rectal pain: microsurgical commissural myelotomy with the carbon dioxide laser.

Spinal cord neuroablative procedures for intractable midline pain have been limited in application because of frequent side effects and disabilities caused by manipulation of adjacent normal structures during the operation. The carbon dioxide laser, with its ability to execute microneurosurgical procedures without such manipulation, presents an opportunity to minimize adverse effects while still interrupting the desired pain-conducting fibers. Commissural myelotomy with the carbon dioxide laser in a patient suffering from pain due to nonmalignant disease and with a preoperatively intact spinal cord is described.

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PubMed1976

The effect of folic acid on gingival health.

On days 0 and 30 of a double blind study, two groups of 15 subjects each were evaluated using a plaque index, a gingival index, a gingival exudate flow and fasting plasma folic acid levels. Group I received 2 mg of folic acid twice daily for 30 days while Group II received a placebo. Results of the study seem to indicate that folic acid supplemented to the diet may increase the resistance of the gingiva to local irritants and thus lead to a reduction in inflammation.

Adult↗