FAT EMBOLISM: AN AID TO DIAGNOSIS

Calretinin Immunohistochemistery: An Aid in the Diagnosis of Hirschsprung’s Disease

Objective(s) Definite diagnosis of Hirschsprung’s disease (HD) is based on histopathological study, but there are limitations associated with standard histology and histochemistry in this regard. The aim of this study was to investigate calretinin immunostaining patterns in both ganglionic and aganglionic HD intestinal specimens and to compare them with control specimens. Materials and Method...

Peritoneoscopy as an Aid to Diagnosis.

Electro-Encephalography: An Aid to Diagnosis

The attitude of the medical practitioner to pliysiolog} is necessarily utilitarian and his familiarity with the various branches of the subject varies with their usefulness, not, as a cynic would suggest, with their simplicity. It is not surprising, therefore, that electrophysiology, though attracting great academic attention, is the least familiar of laboratory studies, for until recently the ...

Fat embolism.

The importance of fat embolism as a complication of bony trauma has been recognized for over 100 years. During this time there have been short bursts of rapid progress in knowledge and understanding of the problem separated by periods of confusion and misunderstandings. Presently, as a result of improvements in technology, new information has been derived to reduce significantly the morbidity a...

[Fat embolism].

Fat embolism syndrome is a collection of respiratory, haematological, neurological and cutaneous symptoms and signs associated with trauma and other disparate surgical and medical conditions. The incidence of the clinical syndrome is low (< 1% in retrospective reviews) whilst the embolisation of marrow fat appears to be an almost inevitable consequence of long bone fractures. There is debate ov...