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T C Krol
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Remission in a patient with Menetrier's disease: spontaneous or induced by treatment?
Remission in a patient with Menetrier's disease occurred 2 months after presentation with anasarca and marked hypoproteinemia. As such spontaneous remission of Menetrier's disease is unusual, we have analyzed our patient and the only five previously reported cases we could find. In our patient, conservative therapy, depriving the gastrointestinal tract of food, institution of parenteral alimentation, and suppression of gastric secretion appeared to be associated with remission. Such an approach should be tried in other patients with Menetrier's disease.
Brachial plexus neuritis and fatal hemorrhage following Aspergillus infection of a Hickman catheter.
A patient with relapse of acute granulocytic leukemia developed an Aspergillus infection along the subcutaneous tract of a silicone rubber indwelling central venous catheter. The infection invaded the brachial plexus resulting in paralysis of the right upper extremity and subsequently invaded a major artery of the arm resulting in the demise of the patient. Both an infectious brachial plexus neuritis and fatal hemorrhage secondary to a Hickman catheter are apparently rare.
Bronchogenic carcinoma and diabetes insipidus: case report and review.
Tumor metastasis to the posterior pituitary-hypothalamic area rarely is expressed by either clinical or radiographic evidence. A case is reported of widespread metastic ACTH secreting bronchogenic carcinoma presenting to the clinician as diabetes insipidus. This type of tumor associated with diabetes insipidus is apparently rare, as is antemortem radiographic documentation of metastasis to the pituitary--hypothalamic region. A review of the ten-year experience of Loyola University Medical Center and Hines VA Hospital with the association of bronchogenic carcinoma and diabetes insipidus is presented with a brief review of metastic disease to the pituitary.
Hyperviscosity syndrome in Waldenström's macroglobulinemia.
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Herpes zoster with facial paralysis: an unusual manifestation.
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Myasthenia gravis, pernicious anemia, and Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
A 68-year-old woman with clinical, electromyographic, and pharmacologic evidence of myasthenia gravis experienced increasing proximal and bulbar muscular weakness. The diagnosis of pernicious anemia was established by typical abnormalities in the peripheral blood and bone marrow aspirate, the serum B12 level, by results of the Schilling test, and by the presence of serum parietal cell antibody. The diagnosis of Hashimoto's thyroiditis was established by the presence of diffuse thyroid enlargement, microsomal thyroid antibodies, an increased thyroid stimulating hormone level, and depressed T2 and T4 levels.
Endoscopic tracheo-esophageal fistula for voice prosthesis.
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