Neurological disease accounts for 20% of all admissions to medical wards, but the number of inpatients with neurological disability is unknown. The notes of all adult inpatient in a district general hospital were reviewed to identify all those with a neurological disorder. Over 40% of inpatients on medical wards and 4% on surgical wards had a neurological disorder.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To define the natural history, and prognostic factors of patients with histologically unverified presumed gliomas diagnosed on CT or MR imaging, and treated with external beam radiotherapy.
Methods And Materials: Retrospective review of 111 adults with histologically unverified presumed cerebral glioma treated with radiotherapy between 1974 and 1990. Using CT or MRI criteria alone 41 were presumed low grade, 63 high grade gliomas and 7 were unclassified.
A sterile oral rehydration solution can be produced by immersing in water a semi-permeable cellulose tube containing glucose and salts. Osmotically-driven ultrafiltration excludes all microbes and particulate matter even when the immersion water contains 45 x 10(6) cfu/ml of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 25 x 10(7) cfu/ml of Staphylococcus aureus or 20 x 10(7) cfu/ml of Escherichia coli. Solutions of consistent composition can be obtained by having a standard amount of glucose-electrolytes in a cellulose tube of appropriate dimensions and immersing this in a fixed volume of water for a minimum period of time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA brother and sister developed epilepsy at the age of 28 and 30 years respectively, and were subsequently found to have neuroacanthocytosis. The brother developed tics, and a tendency to self-mutilate a year later, but his sister had not developed any movement disorder in the 5 years since the onset of epilepsy. In families with epilepsy, the diagnosis of neuroacanthocytosis should be considered, particularly when one family member has tics or other involuntary movements.
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