Acute non-specific pericarditis. A description of nineteen cases.

Acute non-specific pericarditis. A description of nineteen cases.

Bwmm 277 tissue does not normally occur (Davis et al., 1955). This stipulation is necessary, since benign tumours have a multifocal origin in approximately 10% of cases, but in such cases tumour cells are confined to tissues which normally contain chromaffin elements. Case 1 was regarded as malignant because phaeo-chromocytoma cells were found in a lymph node, a site which would not normally co...

Acute non-specific pericarditis.

Acute non-specific pericarditis.

Incidence Acute non-specific pericarditis (acute benign pericarditis; acute idiopathic pericarditis) has been recognized for over 100 years (Christian, 1951). In 1942 Barnes & Burchell described fourteen cases of the condition and since then several series of cases have been published (Krook, 1954; Scherl, 1956; Swan, 1960; Martin, 1966; Logue & Wendkos, 1948). Until recently Swan's (1960) seri...

Semantic dementia Brazilian study of nineteen cases

The term semantic dementia was devised by Snowden et al. in 1989 and nowadays, the semantic dementia syndrome is recognized as one of the clinical forms of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and is characterized by a language semantic disturbance associated to non-verbal semantic memory impairment. Objectives The aim of this study was to describe a Brazilian sample of 19 semantic dement...

Surgical experience in necrotising enterocolitis: a report of nineteen cases

The results of operative intervention in 19 neonates with necrotising enterocolitis are reported. There were four deaths (21%) in the series. Intestinal perforation was the indication for surgery in 10 cases (55%), three of which did not survive. Timing of operative intervention can be optimised only by close liaison between experienced physicians and surgeons in order to avoid intestinal perfo...