Effects of injected deposteroid on posttonsillectomy morbidity: a double-blind study.

There are numerous studies using various agents to reduce posttonsillectomy morbidity. Due to lack of conclusive results a double-blind study using methylprednisolone acetate (Depo Medrol) was conducted. A total of 165 patients were randomly divided into two groups.

Diagnosis and management of tuberculous cervical adenitis.

In a series of 133 patients with a primary diagnosis of tuberculosis admitted to the Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego, Calif, during a four-year period from July 1967 to July 1971, 29 (16.7%) had extrapulmonary lymphadenitis. The cervical region was involved in 20 (68.

Contingency contracting with school problems.

Contingency contracting procedures used in managing problems with school-age children involved analyzing teacher and/or parental reports of behavior problem situations, isolating the most probable contingencies then in effect, the range of reinforcers presently available, and the ways in which they were obtained. The authors prepared written contracts delineating remediative changes in reinforcement contingencies. These contracts specified ways in which the child could obtain existing individualized reinforcers contingent upon approximations to desired appropriate behaviors chosen as incompatible with the referral problem behaviors.