Handedness and Its Impact on a Career in Medicine.

Left-handedness in a world of right lateral bias can be an invisible barrier both in everyday life as well as in medical career development, and throughout a medical career. Common everyday life actions, including screwing in lightbulbs, inserting a screw, or any action that requires a clockwise rotation, is designed for "righties," making life for "lefties" a challenge. Other examples include writing without a slant or without smudging.

Monitoring of antifibrinolytic therapy following subarachnoid hemorrhage. The importance of CSF fibrin/fibrinogen degradation products.

Ten cases of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) from ruptured cerebral aneurysm are reported. Fibrin/fibrinogen degradation product (FDP) levels were determined simultaneously in blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) at an average frequency of 1.7 days, extended over periods of 8 to 63 days.

Combined isotope ventriculography and lumbar myelocisternography in the diagnosis of communicating syringomyelia. Case report.

Several investigative procedures are currently used to diagnose communicating syringomyelia. The combination of isotope ventriculography and lumbar myelocisternography has never proposed nor carried out to verify this condition. We feel that this is a safe and valuable procedure to identify a patent central canal communicating with the fourth ventricle and is worth considering when diagnosing communicating syringomyelia.