Journal ArticleHum Mutat · June 2013
Alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins (ACD/MPV) is a rare and lethal developmental disorder of the lung defined by a constellation of characteristic histopathological features. Nonpulmonary anomalies involving organs of gastroin ...
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Journal ArticleMod Pathol · June 1997
Whipple's disease (WD) is an uncommonly diagnosed infection caused by the recently characterized bacillus, Tropheryma whippelii. The association of WD with pericarditis and endocarditis is widely recognized, although less attention has been paid to the myo ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Med · March 1993
Distinguishing constrictive pericarditis from restrictive cardiomyopathy, usually due to amyloidosis, is a relatively frequent and difficult diagnostic problem. This report describes, for the first time, a patient with constrictive pericarditis caused by d ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Clin Pathol · June 1992
This study reports the frequency of new clinical orders, diagnoses, or testing after initial abnormal results of selected serum chemistry tests in 122 hospitalized patients at a Veterans' Administration Hospital. This study also reports the frequency of ne ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · 1992
We present a hemorrhagic adrenal adenoma surrounding and encompassing adjacent retroperitoneal fat to simulate the appearance of a myelolipoma by CT. A well-defined fibrous capsule, punctate calcification, and several macroscopic foci of fat within the mas ...
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Journal ArticleUrology · December 1980
Simple renal retention cysts are the most common masses of the kidney, but rarely cause any clinical difficulty, are usually without attendant symptoms, generally posing only a differential diagnostic problem when discovered. However, renal cysts can predi ...
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Journal ArticleSouth Med J · May 1980
A 28-year-old man with a tracheostomy had two episodes of hemorrhage from an arteriotracheal fistula secondary to erosion of the cannula tip into the right subclavian and the right common carotid arteries. Arteriotracheal fistual formation is associated wi ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · October 1979
A patient who developed primary amyloidosis, pure red cell aplasia, and Kaposi's sarcoma is described. This is the second reported coincidence of Kaposi's sarcoma and pure red cell aplasia and the first coincidence of Kaposi's sarcoma and primary amyloid, ...
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Journal ArticleJ Nucl Med · April 1979
A case is described in which Tc-99m methylene diphosphonate concentrated in a hepatic metastasis from esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. We observed radiopharmaceutical concentration in the hepatic metastases, which was probably related to the presence of ...
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Journal ArticleGastrointest Radiol · October 25, 1977
The radiographic and pathologic findings of a Zenker's-type diverticulum containing multiple ulcers are described. This rare complication probably represented peptic ulceration of the diverticular mucosa resulting from reflux of the gastric content. ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · May 1977
Recognition of a pattern of elevations in commonly measured serum enzymes [creatine phosphokinase (CPK), lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), and glutamate oxalacetate transaminase (SGOT)] can facilitate the diagnosis of hypothyroidism, especially when muscle weakn ...
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