Spondylolisthesis: introduction and illustrative cases

Systemic amyloidosis--three illustrative cases.

Amyloidosis is characterised by the extracellular deposition of abnormal protein fibrils. Recent advances in the study of amyloidosis have been based on the chemical analysis of these protein fibrils.1,2 This has also led to a more rational classification of the condition (Fig 1). Further discussion of localised forms of amyloidosis is outside the scope of this article, which will be confined t...

Bloodless Operations with Illustrative Cases

a matter under observation liovv far this system can be safely used in all cases of disease and injury to which it is applicable. While, on the one hand, in most cases, the loss of a few ounces of blood may be of little eonsequence, there may be danger from septic matter being forced into the circulation, and it has also been remarked that there is a greater tendency to sloughing of flaps after...

Traumatic spondylolisthesis of the axis: 42 cases.

Fourty-two patients (34 males and 8 female) with traumatic spondylolisthesis of the axis were studied in a retrospective review There were 20 stable and 22 unstable fractures. The 22 unstable fractures were treated surgically: 16 anterior interbody fusion (10 non-plated and 6 plated), 4 pedicle screw fixation for osteosynthesis of the fractured pedicles, and 2 posterior wire fixation for flexio...

Toxæmia in Pregnancy, with Illustrative Cases

By toxaemia in pregnancy is generally understood that condition occurring in the pregnant state as the result of the presence in excess of toxic material. Its origin has not been elucidated, but as far as is known the character of the poison or poisons produced in the body of mother and foetus is of the nature of alkaloids. The excretion of the excess of waste material being in large part effec...

The Heterogeneity Model and its Special Cases - an Illustrative Comparison