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Diffuse peritoneal leiomyomatosis: An exceptional entity in a male patient.
J Cancer Res Ther
December 2020
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Fez, Hassan II University Hospital, University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah, Fez, Morocco.
Diffuse peritoneal leiomyomatosis is a benign peritoneal tumor which develops from smoother muscular fibers. It is a rare entity in females undergoing hormonal effects. This pathological entity is exceptional in male patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJules Tinel (1879-1952): Beyond the eponym, the man and his forgotten neurological contributions.
Rev Neurol (Paris)
June 2017
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The trauma of World War I had a lasting impact on clinician and physiologist Jules Tinel (1879-1952). His treatment of peripheral nervous system injuries led him, in 1917, to describe the eponymous sign that he linked to activity of the sympathetic nervous system. Among the sequelae of nerve injuries, he was confronted with causalgia that he attributed, here again, to the autonomic nervous system, the main focus of his laboratory research throughout his career.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNerve Growth Factor Gene Therapy: Activation of Neuronal Responses in Alzheimer Disease.
JAMA Neurol
October 2015
Department of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
Importance: Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder and lacks effective disease-modifying therapies. In 2001, we initiated a clinical trial of nerve growth factor (NGF) gene therapy in AD, the first effort at gene delivery in an adult neurodegenerative disorder. This program aimed to determine whether a nervous system growth factor prevents or reduces cholinergic neuronal degeneration in patients with AD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFScience, humanism, judgement, ethics: person-centered medicine as an emergent model of modern clinical practice.
Folia Med (Plovdiv)
September 2013
University of Milan, Italy.
The Medical University of Plovdiv (MUP) has as its motto 'Committed to humanity". But what does humanity in modern medicine mean? Is it possible to practise a form of medicine that is without humanity? In the current article, it is argued that modern medicine is increasingly being practised in a de-personalised fashion, where the patient is understood not as a unique human individual, a person, but rather as a subject or an object and more in the manner of a complex biological machine. Medicine has, it is contended, become distracted from its duty to care, comfort and console as well as to ameliorate, attenuate and cure and that the rapid development of medicine's scientific knowledge is, paradoxically, principally causative.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe system of anatomicopathological facilities was created in 30s of XX century and first years of the Great Patriotic War. The goal of this system was to increase the effectiveness of Sanitary Corps of the Red Army. These anatomicopathological facilities analyzed causes of death of injured soldiers during all stages of the system of treatment-evacuative support of troops and mistakes made by medical specialists during first aid treatment.
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