Nonmalignant hematology

Nonmalignant Tumors of the Orbit

Most orbital tumors are nonmalignant. Nonmalignant orbital tumors can arise from any of the structures within the orbit, including blood vessels, fat, nerves, lacrimal gland, and connective tissue. Nonmalignant orbital tumors can be grouped into cystic lesions, vascular tumors, lymphoproliferative lesions, inflammatory lesions, mesenchymal tumors, neurogenic tumors, and lacrimal gland tumors. A...

Nuclear Hematology

(p. 97) in which sodium-depleted rats no longer corrected their negative sodium balance by drinking hypertonic saline after ventromedial nucleus lesions. However, the reader is frustrated by lack of any citation of this work in the bibliography. A valuable and critical review of sodium "appetite" studies is presented in this chapter. The section dealing with peptides from the diencephalon or ki...

Characteristics of Minor Hematology

This article has summarized parts of certain publica­tions about changes of hematopoietic elements, specially erythroid, during embryonic and fetal to the third postnatal life. The main purpose of this article is to familiarize medical students with the physiological characteristics of the blood system, chiefly in the first trimenon of postnatal life.  It is also aimed to prevent many incorrec...

Radiotherapy of nonmalignant diseases of the eye.

Marijuana and chronic nonmalignant pain in adolescents.

From the Department of Anesthesiology (T.E.H.) and Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (B.K.B., K.E.W., T.A.R., J.M.B.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. C hronic nonmalignant pain in children and adolescents occurs worldwide and can be associated with a lower selfreported quality of life. Headache, abdominal pain, or musculoskeletal pain is the most common complaint. Comorbid symptoms such as f...