Pharyngeal spasticity due to dantrolene.

What Is Known And Objective: Dantrolene can be combined with baclofen to better treat spasticity, but may cause muscular weakness and dysphagia. We instead describe a pharyngeal spasm due to dantrolene.

Case Summary: A 12-year-old male received dantrolene 3 mg/kg/day in adjunct to baclofen 2 mg/kg/day, to improve spasticity.

[Mammography changes associated with hormone replacement therapy in post-menopausal patients].

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in post-menopausal or ovariectomized women reduces mortality due to cardiovascular diseases, lowers morbidity due to osteoporosis and improves vasovagal symptoms. Long-term therapy, however, increase the risk of side-effects. HRT may decrease mammographic sensitivity, markedly increasing glandular density.

[Imaging of the breast treated with quadrantectomy and radiotherapy. Interpretative difficulties in diagnosing asymptomatic recurrences].

This study was aimed at evaluating the incidence of breast carcinoma recurrences in a group of female patients treated with QU.A.RT.

[A comparative evaluation of the centering precision performed with 2 different stereotaxic instruments in nonpalpable breast lesions].

Two different instruments for nonpalpable breast lesion localization, with different patient position (prone and sitting), were evaluated in precision performances by measuring the mean needle deviation on X and Y axes in 150 and 100 examinations, respectively. Both instruments yielded precise information: some drawbacks were observed with the stereotaxic instrument fitted to the plain mammographic unit, due to imperfect fixation in the sitting position of the patient. The development of special seats could obviate the problem, thus allowing a further improvement in the performance of this kind of instruments.

[The role of color Doppler echography in the diagnosis of breast tumors].

The authors discuss the results from a series of 45 patients with breast lumps. All patients were studied by means of mammography, sonography, color Doppler US, and biopsy. Abnormal Doppler signal was observed in 94% of the patients with breast cancer.