Clinical signs versus the pan-investogram

Clinical Signs of Gingivitis

Brook A. Niemiec DVM Diplomate, ADVC Diplomate DEVDC Fellow AVD Veterinary Dental Specialties and Oral Surgery San Diego, Murrieta, Irvine, Ontario, Santa Barbara, Las Vegas, New Orleans The level of gingival inflammation is broken down into several stages. However, these stages are somewhat arbitrary and gingivitis proceeds through them in a fluid fashion, with no clear demarcations. This news...

Skin Signs of Graft Versus Host Disease

Graft-versus-host disease is a common complication of allogenic hematopoietic cell transplantation and less frequently of solid organ transplantation. The skin is one of the initial and main organs affected, and as such, recognizing the dermatologic manifestations allows early diagnosis and treatment. In this article we aim to describe the cutaneous manifestations of graft-versus-host disease s...

Symptoms and Signs versus Transference and Speech

“In the medical tradition of the eighteenth century, the disease was observed in terms of symptoms and signs. These were distinguished from one another as much by their semantic value as by their morphology. The symptom hence its uniquely privileged position is the form in which the disease is presented: of all that is visible, it is closest to the essential; it is the first transcription of th...

Clinical signs in elbow pain.

Javed et al’s guide to the management of elbow pain1 is disappointing on several fronts including its support for the myth that only tennis players get tennis elbow,2 but especially in its description of the clinical signs of this condition and golfer’s elbow. The essence of examining a joint is to distinguish between conditions of the joint proper and those of the muscle and tendons that move ...

Physical Signs in Clinical Surgery