introduction : although oral cancer is amenable for early detection, it often presents as advanced disease in many of patients. long-lasting ulcer or mucosal discoloration has been described as the key to an early diagnosis; however other symptoms may also exist. the present study aims to describe the frequency of the early symptoms in oral cancer patients, with a special focus on pain. materia...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine early symptom and diagnostic-seeking experiences of women newly diagnosed with ovarian cancer. DESIGN Longitudinal descriptive. SETTING Homes of families. SAMPLE Purposive; 19 families were obtained by referrals. METHODS Interviews and questionnaires; descriptive analysis. MAIN RESEARCH VARIABLES Early symptoms and delays in diagnosis. FINDINGS Families...

THE clinical diagnosis of chronic intussusception in adults is notoriously difficult. Unless a mass is palpable in the abdomen, or the intussusception reveals itself on rectal examination, there may be little more to go on than vague abdominal pain and indefinite signs. Preoperative diagnosis is rarely made; out of 28 cases of spontaneous sloughing and healing collected by Robb and Souter (1962...

AMONG the many signs of hypothyroidism, puffiness of the eye-lids is a familiar feature of the facial appearance, but watering of the eyes is not usually reported as a prominent symptom. Recently we have seen five patients who presented to an oculist complaining of watering of the eyes in whom there was found evidence of hypothyroidism and whose symptoms were relieved by the administration of t...