1. Pulseless Disease : Summary of Our 62 Cases

Pulseless disease. A report on five cases.

Pulseless disease or Takayashu's disease is a rare condition characterized by the completc, or almost complete, absence of the arterial pulsation in the upper extremities, and usually in the head and neck, due to an obliterative process in the great branches of the aortic arch. Although wellknown by Japanese writers, it has received little attention in this country. The earliest recorded case w...

Pulseless disease.

TAKAYASHU (1908) reported a case of complicated cataract with unusual features, and Onishi and Kagoshima reported two similar cases at the same meeting with the added observation of absent radial pulses in one of them. It was not, however, until Shimizu (1948) reviewed the two articles that the disease became generally recognized by Japanese ophthalmologists as a rare but definite entity. Since...

Two autopsy cases of a peculiar disease, so called Pulseless Disease

T\'v'o autopsy cases of "Pulseless Disease", a peculiar dsease of the aorta and its branches, are reported in this paper. In "Pulseless Disease" autopsy cases of old persons are relatively rare. The two cases are both of old persons, and show not only stenosis or obstruction as indicated by the name, "Pulseless Disease" , but also marked dilatation of arterial lumen. There are no histological d...

Malignant Melanoma in Khouzestan: Study of 62 cases

Background: Malignant melanoma is the leading cause of death among skin cancers in western countries. However, the incidence, histologic subtypes, and tumor behaviors are quite different in Asians and western populations. Objective: This study was designed to survey the clinicopathological aspects of malignant melanoma among Khouzestan people. Patients and Methods: In a retrospective stud...

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