Dupuytren's disease may present with well-defined subcutaneous cords or as more diffuse disease with involvement of the skin. Fasciectomy is the procedure commonly carried out for the full range of disease, but is associated with rates of recurrence of up to 66%. We reviewed 143 rays in 103 patients undergoing dermofasciectomy for diffuse disease with involvement of the skin. We found recurrenc...

PURPOSE The aim of the study is to evaluate common knowledge shared by leukemia patients aged 12-18 yrs. and to determine their attitude to the diagnosed disease. MATERIAL AND METHOD The study group consisted 30 of youth aged 12-18 yrs with diagnosed leukemia, which expressed agreement on participation in investigation. The study employed an own questionnaire entitled: "Common Knowledge of Le...

The main ocular complication of epidemic dropsy is glaucoma of the primary non-inflammatory type, and the eye remains quite white even in cases in which the tension is extremely high. Formerly it was thought that the increased intraocular tension was a late manifestation of the general disease, but in the outbreaks in 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1935 many cases of this type of glaucoma were seen with ...

CMAJ | JANUARY 9, 2017 | VOLUME 189 | ISSUE 1 E11 T uberculosis (TB) is uncommon in children and adolescents in Canada, and diagnosis is often delayed because of a lack of diagnostic suspicion.1 Social determinants of health, including poverty, underscore its incidence and prevalence in countries with high TB burden but also among indigenous peoples in Canada in whom endemic TB remains a seriou...

In the last of the group of papers from the conference on inatrogenic disease which we are publishing is this issue Katharine Whitehorn told the audience mainly of doctors and doctors in training and tells many more through this Journal what the patient expects from them. She envisages a generation of doctors who are coming to see their role rather differently from that of their fathers, and pe...