Widespread posttraumatic spinal subdural hematoma--imaging findings with spontaneous resolution: case report.

A 63-year-old man developed paraparesis and signs of meningeal irritation 4 days after a fall which caused a minor contusion of the cervical spine. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed an extensive spinal subdural hematoma. The usefulness of MRI for diagnosis and successful conservative treatment is discussed.

Intake of alcohol and benzodiazepines and reliability of drug history in patients admitted to hospital.

Withdrawal syndromes of both alcohol and benzodiazepines have been recognized increasingly as modifying symptoms of diseases in acute medicine. In 198 consecutive patients admitted for medical or surgical reasons to Oulu University Hospital blood alcohol and urine metabolites of benzodiazepines were measured in samples taken on admission. Based on these measurements out of 198 patients 48 (24.

Isoniazid, quinidine, and sulphafurazole absorption in patients with jejunum transposition 15 years earlier.

Gastric surgery has formerly been shown to affect drug absorption. The absorption of oral isoniazid (INH), quinidine, and sulphafurazole (sulfisoxazole) was therefore studied in 19 ulcer patients operated on some 15 years earlier with resection of the ventricle combined with jejunum transposition. Twelve medical inpatients served as controls.

Recurrent wound sinuses after cholecystectomy for salmonella paratyphi.

Several cases in which Salmonella, spread by the haematogenous route, produced localised inflammation have previously been described in the literature. The infecting of an operation wound through direct contamination by Salmonella has earlier been reported only once, in connection with appendectomy. The present case report describes a case in which recurrent sinuses infected by Salmonella were formed in the operative wound.