Egyptian splenomegaly and its surgical treatment

Surgical indications in idiopathic splenomegaly.

HYPOTHESIS The incidence of primary lymphoma of the spleen in patients with idiopathic splenomegaly is significant. DESIGN Retrospective review of all patients referred to a general surgical service for splenectomy. SETTING A large tertiary care hospital. PATIENTS Between 1994 and 2001, 86 nontrauma patients were referred for splenectomy. Of these, 18 had idiopathic splenomegaly despite p...

fluoride and dental fluorosis and treatment

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Patent ductus arteriosus and its surgical treatment.

The remarkable success that has attended surgical ligation of the patent ductus arteriosus has aroused a new interest in a unique structure and has been the means of revealing striking gaps in our knowledge -of a comparatively common form of congenital heart disease. Unexpectedly, ligation of the infected ductus has shed a new light on the most serious of all forms of heart disease-bacterial en...

Ulcerative Colitis and Its Surgical Treatment

Exophthalmic Goiter and Its Non-Surgical Treatment

Surgical Treatment. -By Israel Bram, m.d. C. V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, 1920. Thk author should entertain no fear that his book may not be tolerated: it rather requires a welcome. The whole subject of Graves' disease is carefully reviewed: no new theories of its pathogenesis are advanced, but the author inclines to the view that the hyperthyroidism of the disease is itself an incidental produ...