Tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking as risk factors for stomach cancer: a case-control study in Uruguay.

Objectives: To estimate the risk of stomach cancer associated with alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking in Uruguayan men.

Methods: A case-control including 331 cases and 622 controls was conducted in Montevideo, Uruguay, during the period 1992-96. The study was restricted to men, and both cases and controls were patients admitted to the major four hospitals in Montevideo.

Prolonged and monosymptomatic dysphasic status epilepticus.

Dysphasic seizures are an infrequent form of epilepsy, and their serial appearance as a partial status epilepticus is quite exceptional. The young patient reported here had a partial dysphasic status epilepticus of 3 weeks' duration without other temporal lobe seizures. Simultaneous serial electroencephalograms, tape recordings of the seizures, and repeated neuropsychologic ictal examinations permitted studies of increased impairment of neuropsychologic function on testing and the appearance of new irritative discharges on encephalography.