Disappearing renal calculus

Wegener's granulomatosis presenting as a disappearing renal mass.

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Renal Calculus Treated by Nephrectomy

A Case of Renal Calculus

The following case is interesting from the completeness of the history and the satisfactory termination. Mr. G., European, merchant by occupation, age thirty-eight years, consulted me in September of this year for severe pain in the back and left loin ; he gave me a gouty family history and in regard to his present trouble said that he had had a somewhat similar attack a year previously which h...

Disappearing Hardware

F or many tasks today, the use of computers is not entirely satisfactory. The interactions take effort and are often difficult. The traditional, and still prevalent, computing experience is sitting in front of a box, our attention completely absorbed in the dialog required to complete the details of a greater task. Putting this in perspective, the real objective is the task's completion, not th...

Disappearing hypercalcaemia.

Four women presented with symptomatic hypercalcaemia and raised concentrations of serum parathyroid hormone (PTH). In each case, serum calcium returned spontaneously to normal. In two patients serum PTH also fell to the normal range and biochemical relapse has not occurred despite prolonged follow-up. In the others, serum PTH remained elevated and subsequent symptomatic hypercalcaemia necessita...