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Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat
August 2018
Department of Psychosomatic Dentistry, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
Objective: Oral cenesthopathy is characterized by foreign body sensations without medical and dental evidence for them. It is thought to be a rare disease in psychiatry, but many patients are visiting dental clinics seeking treatment to remove a foreign body. Even though the features of oral cenesthopathy might be different between a psychiatric clinic and a dental clinic, there has been no clinic-statistical study from dentists.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe article reviews the defects of a statistical classification of urolithiasis in ICD-10. The main defect is the discrepancy of clinical diagnoses in case histories with statistical codes of ICD-10. A new coded classification of urolithiasis reflecting basic clinical characteristics of urolithiasis (a type and size of the stones, function of the kidneys, x-ray positivity and infection of the stones, chemical structure of the stones) is proposed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors present a clinico-statistical analysis of results of endoscopic polypectomy and dynamic observation of 258 patients with gastric polyps. The aim of the investigation was to determine a true histological diagnosis of gastric polyps using excisional biopsy. An endoscopic investigation has revealed 475 polyps in the stomach of 258 patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKurume Med J
February 2001
Department of Oral Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume 830-0011, Japan.
As society ages, the composition of the diseases that occur within it changes accordingly. With that in mind, we examined the characteristics and trends in the recent inpatients and compared these recent inpatients with those of a previous report to identify the changes that accompany the aging of society. Subjects were 1,534 cases (men 56.
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