Koro syndrome is a psychiatric disorder characterised, in its typical form, by acute and intense anxiety, with complaints in men of a shrinking penis or fear of its retraction into the abdomen and resultant death. Initially, this syndrome was described as a culture specific disorder. Sporadic cases referred to as ...

Fibromyalgia is an idiopathic chronic pain syndrome defined by widespread nonarticular musculoskeletal pain and generalized tender points. The syndrome is associated with a constellation of symptoms, including fatigue, nonrefreshing sleep, irritable bowel, and more. Central nervous system sensitization is a major pathophysiologic aspect of fibromyalgia; in addition, various external stimuli ...

Carpal tunnel syndrome has a prevalence of 1% to 10%, and while acute carpal tunnel syndrome makes up the minority of cases of this compression neuropathy, it is important to recognize as a distinct entity because prompt surgical treatment can decrease long-term morbidity. The most common causes of acute carpal ...

Cavernous hemangiomas are the most common benign tumors of the liver. They can reach enormous sizes and cause various complications. Kasabach-Merritt syndrome is a rare but serious complication characterized by consumptive coagulopathy caused by the hemangioma; mortality rate ranges between 10 and 37%. More than 80% of cases occur within ...

Gastric adenocarcinoma developing concomitantly with a lymphoma is rare. Furthermore, B-cell lymphoma, originating from lymph nodes, with eosinophilia is extremely rare. We report here a case with a synchronous diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and an early adenocarcinoma of the stomach. In addition, this case seemed to be associated with ...

BACKGROUND: This article documents an objective review ofthe neuro-anatomical, diagnostic and clinical implications of the auriculotemporal syndrome (Frey's syndrome). The incidence of Frey's syndrome after parotidectomy as cited in the literature varies. It may also be a sequela to a variety of inflammatory, infective and traumatic aetiologies. METHOD: An electronic ...

The historical background leading to the current use of buprenorphine as an analgesic and its role in the management of opioid dependence is summarized. The popular description of buprenorphine as a "partial agonist" is discussed in relation to efficacy in animal models of antinociception and clinical analgesia. The latest information ...

Children and adolescents with Down syndrome show an emerging profile of speech and language characteristics that is typical of the syndrome (Chapman & Hesketh, 2000; Chapman, 2003; Abbeduto & Chapman, 2005) and different from typically developing children matched for nonverbal mental age, including expressive language deficits relative to comprehension that ...

OBJECTIVE: The auriculotemporal syndrome is known worldwide as Frey's syndrome. However, the Jewish physician Lucja Frey, after whom it was named, has fallen into obscurity. The little information about her is fragmentary, contradictory, and often incorrect. STUDY DESIGN: To reconstruct the life of Lucja Frey, who was murdered by the ...

OBJECTIVE: To provide information on the history of maternal phenylketonuria. METHODS: A review of the literature and personal observations were conducted. RESULTS: Compilation of sequential information about the development of our understanding of maternal PKU was produced. CONCLUSIONS: The history of maternal PKU reflects continuous additions to our understanding of ...

An arrest in egg laying associated with a polycystic ovarian follicle syndrome (PCOF) has been recently reported early in the egg production period in turkey hens photostimulated at 30 wk of age (WOA) with continuous light. When autopsied 2 to 3 wk after laying ceased, the ovaries of PCOF hens ...

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is an uncommon but potentially serious idiosyncratic response to neuroleptic antipsychotics. It usually affects young males, but the risk has been seen to increase with certain factors including the administration practices of antipsychotic neuroleptics in these individuals. Even though no predictors for NMS are yet known, ...

Most of the six million Americans with fibromyalgia have at least one associated syndrome which mandates specialized attention in addition to traditional therapeutic approaches. These include localized procedures, regional blocks, antiinflammatory or antimicrobial regimens, attention to non soft tissue sources of psychosocial distress, and classes of medicines not usually prescribed ...

Narratives of the wordless picture story, Frog, Where Are You?, by 33 individuals with Down syndrome and typically developing children (33 matched for mental age, 33 for syntax comprehension, 33 for mean length of utterance) were analyzed for expression of plot line, story theme, and the protagonists' misadventures in the ...

Adults with Down syndrome and adults with developmental delays not related to Down syndrome were asked to read, repeat, and formulate speech from a picture following the presentation of 2- and 4-word and picture sequences. The speech sequences were produced either immediately after stimulus presentation or following a 5-sec response ...

Cowden syndrome is a rare dominantly inherited condition with predisposition to benign hamartomatous polyposis of the intestine, as well as malignant tumors of the breast and thyroid, and possibly some other cancer types. Other features include macrocephaly and dysplastic cerebellar gangliocytomatosis with ataxia, as well as predisposition to formation of ...

A young male schizophrenic presented with neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS). Risperidone was the probable precipitating agent. Rigidity and elevated CPK levels poorly responded to bromocriptine, but showed good response to dantrolene. The role of specific treatment and the differential response of the symptom clusters are discussed.

Botulinum toxin has been successfully used to treat Frey's syndrome occurring in a 31-year-old patient following superficial parotidectomy for pleomorphic adenoma. An initial injection of 7.5 U (0.3 ml over 6 cm2 of cheek) resulted in 3 months' resolution of gustatory sweating and flushing and a second injection 12 months' ...

Frey's syndrome after carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is due to iatrogenic injury to the auriculotemporal nerve and has not been previously reported. One month after uncomplicated CEA, our patient noted an erythematous flush and copious drainage of clear fluid from the superior portion of his neck wound whenever he ate, or ...

The aims of the present study were to inquire into the prevalence of fibromyalgia syndrome, to assess nonarticular tenderness, to measure fibromyalgia syndrome-related symptoms, quality of life, and functional impairment among posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients as compared with control subjects. Furthermore, the differences between the PTSD patients with and ...

The term fibromyalgia describes a complex syndrome characterized by pain amplification, musculoskeletal discomfort, and systemic symptoms. Although its existence has been controversial, nearly all rheumatologists now accept fibromyalgia as a distinct diagnostic entity. In fact, in the United States it is the third or fourth most common reason for rheumatology ...

We present a case of a patient with scleritis and the fibromyalgia syndrome. Scleritis and the fibromyalgia syndrome are both thought to be caused by an immunological process. This is the first report of a possible association of scleritis and the fibromyalgia syndrome. Additional cases might suggest that the fibromyalgia ...

The oral opiate antagonist naltrexone is in regular use in clinical practice with abstinent opiate-dependent individuals. Acute opioid withdrawal is a well-recognised consequence of consuming naltrexone while opiate dependent. Two cases of naltrexone-induced opiate withdrawal are reported. The compressed nature of the withdrawal syndrome in both of these cases and ...

Pursuit of a possible metabolic basis for an unrecognized pattern of multiple congenital anomalies in a newborn girl led to the detection of a huge elevation of plasma 7-dehydrocholesterol at age 8 months. The biochemical findings and the evolving clinical picture led to the diagnosis of Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome at age ...

Gastroesophageal reflux is a common occurrence in infancy. The most severe complications of reflux include torticollis, opisthotonus, and paroxysmal dystonic posture (known as the Sandifer complex). We examined 17 patients now ranging in age from 9 months to 19 years (mean age 11 years) with the Brachmann-de Lange syndrome for ...

Brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) studies were repeatedly carried out on a boy with infantile opsoclonus-polymyoclonia syndrome, from 15 months to 39 months of age, the following being revealed: the I-III interpeak latency (I-III IPL) was more or less in the upper normal range until 24 months and then remained ...

An infant girl with Aicardi syndrome, scalp lipomas, and angiosarcoma of a limb is reported. The cavernous hemangioma of the leg was benign when biopsied at age 5 months but became malignant at 11 months. Angiosarcoma caused multiple distant metastases which were evident at autopsy at age 19 months. This ...

We describe the cytopathological picture of a cutaneous rhabdomyosarcoma located in the left nasal furrow of a 4-mo-old girl, some of whose close relatives have died or suffered from different types of neoplasias (Li-Fraumeni syndrome). We believe that the cytological picture is highly characteristic and rules out other round cell ...

The surface dysmorphology of the head in Apert syndrome has been known for a century. Recent advances in computer-assisted medical imaging technology allows in vivo nondestructive "dissection." The authors have used this technology to study the subsurface craniofacial dysmorphology of 14 patients with Apert syndrome ranging in age from infancy ...

A patient given bismuth nitrate in the recommended dose range over 16 months developed panic attacks and a major depressive syndrome and, after 15 months, a myoclonic encephalopathy resembling Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. He recovered four months after bismuth had been discontinued. Bismuth preparations are becoming popular in the treatment of gastritis; ...

Helen Irlen identified a syndrome defined as 'scotopic sensitivity' which it was claimed could be responsible for the inability of some people to read fluently and the symptoms of which could be ameliorated by the wearing of prescribed coloured lenses. The literature to date presents a confused and inconsistent picture ...

Margaret Herd met Vladimir Nikitin on a BDJ study tour in the Soviet Union in March 1988. As a result of their meeting Margaret moved heaven and earth to help Vladimir come for a taste of the West. He spent a month in Britain last Christmas, encountering with awe and ...

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a potentially fatal and frequently undiagnosed consequence of the use of neuroleptics. We present a case report of the syndrome in an octogenarian, the second such to appear in the literature. This syndrome is reviewed and its importance in diagnosis and treatment of the elderly is ...

Child Behavior Checklists completed by parents of 1848 clinically referred American and Dutch girls aged 6-11 and 12-16 were subjected to principal components analyses with varimax rotations. For the 6-11 yr age group, seven of the nine empirically derived syndromes showed cross-national correlations ranging from 0.80 to 0.98. For 12-16-yr-old ...

The neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is a potentially fatal syndrome characterized by diffuse muscular rigidity, pyrexia, sweating, cardiovascular instability, and elevated serum creatinine phosphokinase. NMS occurs in 2% of all patients exposed to neuroleptics (antipsychotic drugs). A case of successfully treated NMS is presented, and the typical symptomatic presentation, etiology, ...

A double blind controlled trial was carried out on four commercial dairy herds, to investigate the effect of one 50 mg injection of selenium, 10 days before parturition, on the incidence of weak calves. Although the treatment marginally increased the selenium status of treated calves it did not decrease the ...

An experiment, involving 1200 broiler chickens, was conducted to evaluate the effects of stocking density (providing either 840, 720, 585, or 454 cm2 of floor space per bird) on the incidence of scabby hip syndrome at slaughter (42 days). The incidence of scabby hip syndrome was higher at the higher ...

The distribution of picture-naming errors for Broca's aphasics (n = 9), Wernicke's aphasics (n = 9), conduction aphasics (n = 9), frontal anomics (n = 7), and posterior anomics (n = 9) was examined to determine the diagnostic power of error types in picture-naming. Negated responses were associated with Broca's ...

Quite by chance, when reading an old manuscript dealing with fistulae of the parotid duct, the author came across a clear description of what is now well known as gustatory sweating (Frey's syndrome). The incident which gave rise to this observation is recalled and the account is reproduced in the ...

Among mice of strain SB/Le, homozygous for the mutant genes beige (bg), satin (sa), and white-bellied agouti (A(w)), 70% developed progressive pneumonitis by 6 months of age. Among backcross offspring from an outcross to C57BL/6J-A(w-J), 49% of homozygous beige and 11% of nonbeige genotypes developed pneumonitis by 6 months of ...

This is a report on a survey of 1126 deaf children in three schools for the deaf in the Province of Ontario. One case of the surdo-cardiac syndrome previously reported is included. There were four other children who had a history of syncope but no prolongation of the Q-T interval ...

Fibromyalgia (fibrositis) is one of the most common rheumatologic conditions. This paper reviews the clinical presentation and pathophysiology of the syndrome and presents a global approach to the management of the disease.