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W P Cornell

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PubMed1978

Carotid endarterectomy: results in 100 patients.

One hundred twenty-two carotid endarterectomies were done in 100 patients in various clinical states of occlusive disease (4 with asymptomatic bruit, 61 with transient ischemia attacks, 35 following stroke) with an overall operative mortality of 3.27%. The 4 deaths all occurred among patients who had existing deficits when operated on. Among 82 operations done for transient ischemia or asymptomatic bruit there were no deaths; 2 transient but no permanent deficits resulted. Surgical management is described. During long-term follow-up, 3 patients in the transient ischemia group acquired deficits (4.6%), but no strokes occurred among the patients with asymptomatic bruits. Six cerebral deaths are reported (both early and late); 5 of them occurred among poststroke patients and the sixth was related to an unoperated, diseased carotid artery.

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PubMed1977

Primary plasmacytoma of the atrium. Report of a case with successful surgical management.

A 44-year-old woman with a superior caval syndrome was found to have an isolated plasmacytoma of the right atrium causing partial obstruction of the superior and inferior vena cavae. The tumor was excised locally, and after operation, irradiation was given. There has been no local recurrence or systemic disease demonstrated after 30 months. This is the first reported surgical excision of an intracardiac plasmacytoma.

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