Traumatic damage to the endometrium (corporeal adhesions) and/or to the cervical internal os (cervical stenosis or atresia) may cause hypomenorrhea-amenorrhea, the only sign of Asherman's syndrome. We demonstrated a close correlation between severity of menstrual insufficiency and extent of corporeal adhesions. Minor adhesions in the lower part of the uterine ...

The syndrome of "paucity" of intrahepatic bile ducts is characterized by a reduction of the ratio of interlobular bile ducts to portal areas. The present unidirectional study of liver biopsy specimens in cases of so-called intrahepatic biliary atresia, controlled essentially by age-matched autopsy control, showed that there is also a ...

A 21-month old infant with endemic syphilis who presented with nephrotic syndrome is described. Clinically, the features correlated well with those of renal disease associated with secondary syphilis. The onset of renal disease in association with syphilis after early infancy may be a valuable aid in drawing attention to the ...

Although Boerhaave's syndrome is usually a surgical emergency, we recently observed a 57-year-old man with a chronic Boerhaave's syndrome. Initially, he responded to conservative management. However, the spontaneous formation of an esophageal-bronchial fistula complicated his course. Pulmonary symptoms and weight loss prompted surgical intervention. We speculate that the patient's six-week ...

Spinal manifestations of syphilis are now uncommon. Three adults with presumptive nontabetic spinal syphilis are presented. This paper should serve as a reminder to physicians that cases of late syphilis continue to occur and may be manifested as obscure spinal syndromes and be misdiagnosed unless the possibility of syphilis is ...

We describe a 26-year-old man in whom the Laurence-Moon-Biedl-Bardet syndrome had been associated with congenital cystic dilations of both the intrahepatic and extrahepatic biliary tract. The fact of the simultaneous occurence of two rare diseases in a single patient suggests the congenital origin of cystic dilation of the biliary tract ...

Three cases of "the syndrome of bronchial atresia or stenosis with mucocele and focal hyperinflation of the lung" are added to 28 proven cases (26 with atresia and 2 with stenosis) previously reported in the English literature. One case is of particular interest since serial roentgenograms during the first week ...

Sulfobromophthalein (BSP) and its three major forms of conjugates were determined in bile or duodenal aspitate, plasma and urine following intravenous administration of free BSP and synthetic BSP-glutathione (BSP-GSH) in five patients with the Dubin-Johnson syndrome and two patients with the Rotor syndrome, using alumina column chromatography. It was found ...

Three cases of perforation of the pharynx in the newborn are presented. This condition resembles esophageal atresia, in that: (a) the symptoms are identical; (b) in both conditions there is failure to pass a nasogastric tube; (c) opacification of the esophagus through a nasogastric tube gives x-ray pictures confusingly similar. ...

Thesis (M.D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1974.