C ontributions to science by medical undergraduates are legion. In the pulmonary and cardiovascular fields there were more than a dozen outstanding contributors, and this paper will discuss them briefly. Naturally, one thinks first of Laennec in the pulmonary field. His first published paper was on mitral valvular disease. Contrary to popular belief he was a pathologist at heart, and in fact be...

Ahmokee, a Hindoo toy, aged 12, was admitted into the Mitford Hospital on the 23rd May, 1866. Four days previously he had fallen from the branch of a mangoe tree, about twelve feet from the ground, and fractured the radius and ulna of the right forearm at the junction of the lower and middle thirds. On admission there was an extensive transverse laceration of muscles, through which the four fra...

In 2008 he was diagnosed with a rectal adenocarcinoma (pT3N0M0) and villous adenoma at 11 and 4 cm from the anal margin, respectively. Short-course radiotherapy (25 Gy in 5 Gy daily fractions) was administered and the patient underwent anterior rectal resection plus perianal adenoma resection. During follow-up a positron emission tomograph was performed (2011), which identified two nodules; one...

In modern dentistry, temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are the third most common dental disease after caries, its complications and periodontal pathology. Despite fact that a significant amount of research has been devoted to this problem, etiology pathogenesis have still not fully derermined.
 The aim is carry out an integrated assessment anamnestic data in differential diagnosis diseases...

BACKGROUND Bronchiolitis is considered one of the earliest and most common causes of hospitalisation in young children. Development of molecular technologies allowed a better understanding of bronchiolitis aetiology. Results from cohort studies evaluating the association between single, multiple viral infections and clinical outcomes are conflicting. Data on viral bronchiolitis in children were...

Blood was drawn, with anaerobic precautions, from subjects in the post-absorptive state. Ultrafiltrate was obtained from the serum by an anaerobic technique, by means of the capsule of Lavietes (3), modified in that the diameter of the effective membrane surface was increased to 3 cm., the cellophane membranes were dried immediately before using by pressing between smooth filter papers, and the...

A 39-year-old male with a history of cocaine abuse presents to the emergency room with pain in the right leg and fever (39oC) 6 days after injecting himself in the thigh with midazolam pills diluted in tap water to control symptoms of withdrawal. Physical examination revealed rubor, swelling and tenderness of the thigh without crepitation, suggestive of cellulitis. Laboratory findings consisted...

Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) sounds were recorded in 98 orthodontic retention patients, mean age 19 +/- 8.6 (s.d.) years, by interview, auscultation and electronic recording. Sounds were found by auscultation in 41% and by interview in 32% of the subjects, more often in females than in males (P < 0.05). A new method for time-frequency analysis, the reduced interference distribution (RID), was ...

A 16-year-old adolescent male presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of left-sided hip pain of 3 weeks’ duration. The frequency of pain was intermittent and tended to be worst since the last 3 days, with the complaints of left knee pain and limping added on top of the pain. He had neither a history of trauma nor a previously known disease. His physical examination revealed...

OBJECTIVES The main purpose of this study was to determine the prognosis and outcomes of the patients with bilateral temporomandibular disorder which underwent bilateral temporomandibular joint surgery in a consecutive number of patients in a retrospective study. STUDY DESIGN Sixty five patients with 130 bilateral TMJ were included the study with the selection from consecutive 256 TMJ patient...