THE MASTOID BLOOD-CLOT OPERATION, THEORETICALLY GOOD; WHAT RESULTS WILL SHOW

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Salivary microvesicles clot blood.

The capacity of saliva to clot blood has been documented in the scriptures (Luke 16:21), folklore, and in the medical literature of the 1920s when Hunter described the ability of saliva to clot blood and proposed it as a means to attenuate bleeding from gastric ulcers.1 In 1938, Glazko and Greenberg reported that saliva contains a cell-derived, protein-based thromboplastin,2 which was later ide...

Staghorn blood clot.

A 61-year-old man with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease suffered from alternating anuria and polyuria resulting from cyst bleeding with clot formation in renal pelvis, a finding which could not be detected by ultrasonography. Subsequent magnetic resonance imaging revealed the right renal pelvis and major calyces were filled with staghorn-shaped blood clots in both coronal sections o...

Admissibility of blood test results to show possibility of source.

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