Showing papers by "Northampton Community College published in 1968"

Untreated Solitary Osteochondroma

Abstract: Two large solitary osteochondromas have been followed without surgical intervention for twenty-six and forty years, respectively. No increase in the size of the tumor and no change in symptoms were noted. The roentgenograms have shown only increased calcification and ossification within the tumors. Conservative care has been justified thus far by the benign clinical course in each patient.

Pseudo-achondroplastic type of spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia (type Maroteaux-Lamy).

Abstract: At the end of the first week the infant had a febrile illness with vomiting, unresponsive to antibiotics. Despite exhaustive investigations, no evidence of infection was found. Dramatic clinical improvement followed the reintroduction of steroids. Circulating anti-adrenal antibodies, derived transplacentally from the mother, were demonstrated. This may have been an infantile Addisonian crisis on the 8th day.

Who are paranoid schizophrenics: a brief comment

Abstract: The importance of the paranoid-nonparanoid dichotomy in research with schizophrenic Ss was discussed and the question raised as to the equivalence of the various procedures of differential diagnosis reported in the literature. For 65 schizophrenic Ss, classification into paranoid and nonparanoid subgroups was made on the basis of both ward-record diagnosis and a current assessment. There was agreement between the two on 41 cases (63%) but disagreement on 37% of the sample. Further work is necessary to evaluate the various ways of operationally defining “paranoid” schizophrenia.