Paterson: Poem as Rhizome

The Paterson-kelly Syndrome.

Dysphagia localized to the post-cricoid region occurring mainly in middle-aged women was first fully described in the papers of Paterson (1919) and Kelly (1919). Kelly noted an association with anaemia, superficial glossitis, and angular stomatitis, while Paterson remarked on " the not infrequent supervention of malignant disease at the mouth of the gullet." Vinson (1922) observed the developme...

)on Paterson and Poetic Autonomy

ntifying Poets Rohert Crawford speculates that 'the poet who constructs an identity I allows that poet to identify with a particular territory is the paradigmatic modern , adding that 'the position of poets in Scotland is typical of this situation' (Crawford 3: 142). One purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the limits of a Scottish literary ism preoccupied by the search for 'poetic selves t...

Life: A Poem

Plummer-Vinson syndrome, PVS Paterson-Kelly syndrome Paterson-Brown Kelly syndrome Sideropenic dysphagia

Plummer-Vinson or Paterson-Kelly syndrome presents as a classical triad of dysphagia, irondeficiency anemia and esophageal webs. Exact data about epidemiology of the syndrome are not available; the syndrome is extremely rare. Most of the patients are white middle-aged women, in the fourth to seventh decade of life but the syndrome has also been described in children and adolescents. The dysphag...

A critical care holiday poem.