Computerized tomography was used to evaluate 35 patients with senile dementia and proved to be a simple and practical screening procedure. Those patients with moderate or severe cerebral atrophy had a poorer short-term prognosis than those with questionable or mild atrophy. Two patients with potentially treatable illnesses (hypothyroidism and pernicious anaemia) and only questionable atrophy ha...

D a u o s g s a s c p f t h s raumatic aortic injury (TAI) due to blunt trauma remains a highly lethal injury. It is reported to occur in 0.8% of otor vehicle collisions and to account for 16% of the fatalties from motor vehicle accidents.1,2 Mortality at the scene as been reported as 80% in autopsy series.3 Although it ccounts for less than 1% of the trauma admissions to level I rauma centers,...

Osteomyelitis of the vertebral body is a rare condition, and its prognostic is reserved in several species, caus- ing spinal cord involvement, and neurological manifestations. In foals, the disease can be resulted from an infection caused by several bacteria, in which R. equi has a higher incidence among the responsible agents. The objective of this report is to describe the osteomyelitis occur...