Twenty-three cases of laryngeal papilloma have been treated and followed for four years utilizing laser excision and laser excision/immunotherapy. Fourteen cases responded well to laser excision alone, nine did not and immunotherapy was instituted as adjunctive treatment. To date, immunotherapy has contributed little to the relief in this group of ...

A case of a 14-year-old girl with both foot and hip sequelae secondary to the use of Bryant's traction at the age of 2 years, 8 months, is presented. It serves as a reminder of the dangers of Bryant's traction, which should be used with discretion, if at all.

Otologists have attempted to close tympanic membrane perforations for 300 years. It has been in the past 25 years that closure with autograft materials has been consistently successful. Homografts have been successful for the past 10 years. One of the autograft materials, ear lobe fat, has been in use for ...

A case of lithopedion (lythokelyphopedion) is reported in a 69 year old woman who had carried a nearly full term dead fetus for at least 20 years. The fine structure of the skeletal muscle was in an astonishingly good state of preservation with contractile elements and myosin molecules identifiable. The ...

Two cases of lymphocutaneous sporotrichosis are reported from Sudan in a boy aged four and a half years and a girl aged 16 years respectively. Diagnosis was based mainly on the clinical findings and the dramatic response to treatment with oral potassium iodine, as well as the histological finding of ...

During a ten-year period, four cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis have been found in a sparsely populated county (population 4,000) in west-central South Dakota. The patients were unrelated male farmer-ranchers between 57 and 66 years of age, living within a 15-km radius of each other. The cases occurred in a ...

A patient with twenty years of persistent bacteriuria secondary to unilateral medullary sponge kidney, and in whom no antibiotic would sterilize the urine, was cured of her infection by nephrectomy in the presence of contralateral hydronephrosis. A review of the literature shows 23 cases of unilateral medullary sponge kidney in ...

Artificial insemination is today an accepted procedure in circumventing sterility. In recent years this procedure gained much popularity as the number of infants available for adoption steadily decreased due to the liberal abortion laws. A review of 15 years of practiced experience (senior author) is presented. In all described cases ...

A case of a unilateral, non-virilizing pregnancy luteoma in a 28 year old Caucasian female resulted in good health more than six years after removal of the lesion. Theories on the histogenesis of the lesion are briefly recounted and the literature is reviewed. This case appears to be number 62 ...

The authors studied the frequency of neurofibrillary tangles in the basal ganglia and brain-stem of two cases with Alzheimer's disease (average 55 years of age), six cases with senile dementia (average 82 years) and ten cases with cerebral softening and arteriosclerosis in old age (average 79 years). The distribution pattern ...

The Czechoslovak Influenza Centre, which was set up in 1956, is attached to the Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology at Prague and is supported in its activity by 15 virological laboratories situated in various parts of Czechoslovakia, which perform serological investigations of influenza and virus isolations.The first isolations of A2 ...