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S T Giammona

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1984

Improved early diagnosis of acute inflammatory skeletal-articular diseases in children: a two-radiopharmaceutical approach.

The febrile child with a painful bone or joint still presents a difficult pediatric diagnostic problem. Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, and cellulitis are the most common causes of this symptom. Thirty-seven patients with these disorders were studied. Because findings from technetium-99m phosphate bone scans and roentgenograms are often normal in patients in the early stages of acute hematogenous osteomyelitis, children suspected of having this disorder were tested using gallium-67 citrate scans in addition to the other diagnostic procedures. The increased diagnostic accuracy of this approach over that of bone scan and roentgenogram studies alone was observed in the children with fever and bone or joint pain.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1976

Overdosage with vincristine.

Five patients received overdoses of vincristine ranging from 3.5 to 32 mg. Neurotoxicity accounted for most of the complications observed. Peripheral neuropathies, cranial nerve palsies, paralytic ileus, atony of the bladder, hypertension, hypotension, seizures, inappropriate ADH secretion, and severe bone marrow depression were all encountered. Two patients died within 72 hours of the overdose. Another patient died of sepsis 22 days after the overdose. Two patients recovered and were discharged. The three patients who survived longer than a few days showed improvement in the vincristine-induced neuropathy, and the two long-term survivors had essentially complete recovery. It appears that if a patient can be supported through the critical period following an overdose, he can be expected to recover normal neurologic function.

Adolescent↗