Urachal signet-ring cell carcinoma.

A case of urachal signet-ring cell carcinoma is reported and compared with the 18 previously reported cases. This tumor appears aggressive, with a five-year survival rate of 27 percent. Only 1 patient achieved a five-year disease-free survival.

The Turnbull loop stoma.

The stoma is the weak link of external urinary diversion. Improper stomal position or configuration produces the unnecessary burden of leakage for the patient with diversion. Stomal bleeding, incrustation and peristomal dermatitis cause inconvenience and expense.

Validity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) to psychopathology in patients with epilepsy.

Information regarding the sensitivity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) to psychopathology and the meaning of MMPI elevations in neurological patients, particularly in those with epilepsy, is of both theoretical and clinical concern. Such information has a particular relevance to the temporal lobe epilepsy-psychopathology controversy. In order to investigate evidence for increased psychopathology as a function of complex partial seizures (temporal lobe epilepsy in the old nomenclature), three groups of epilepsy patients differing in seizure type were compared on the MMPI.

Pain complaint--exercise performance relationship in chronic pain.

Chronic pain patients typically display reduced activity level attributed to pain and implying a positive correlation between exercise or activity and pain complaints. This study correlated observed pain complaints with amount of prescribed exercise performed by chronic pain patients when exercising to tolerance. Patients were in evaluation of earliest stages of multi-modal treatment.

Simultaneous disappearances of both images during binocular rivalry of contours and effect on eye-blink rate.

Simultaneous disappearances of both rivalry images were reported by 28 women who reported on the rivalry 3.2 degree diagonal rivalry contours for 10 min. of continuous viewing.