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B Forster

Publications and source records attributed to B Forster.

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PubMed1979

Calcitonin in nonthyroidal cancer.

A blind prospective study was undertaken to determine the use of calcitonin (CT) as a tumor marker. After final diagnosis, results revealed elevated plasma CT (greater than 150 pg/ml) in common cancers as follows: lung, 38%; colon, 24%; breast, 38%; pancreas, 42%; and gastric, 30%. Fifty-eight percent of oat cell carcinomas were associated with elevated plasma CT. CT immunoreactivity was detected in 14% of tumor extracts and was not detectable in normal tissue other than thyroid. Hypercalcemia was not the cause of hypercalcitonemia. Incubation studies of [125I]human CT in cancer plasma and tumor extracts demonstrated that measurements were not an artifact of label degradation. In a survey of control patients with nonneoplastic disease, elevated CT was noted in renal failure, acute gastrointestinal bleeding, and in some patients with chronic obstructive lung disease. In conclusion, plasma CT is elevated in a substantial proportion of common neoplasms and is useful as a tumor marker.

Breast Neoplasms↗
PubMed1977

[Multiple carcinomas (author's transl)].

Of the patients at the Chirurgische Universitätsklinik Würzburg, 29 were treated for multiple carcinomas in the period from 1970 to 1976. Reports in the literature confirm this relatively high figure. The generally greater life expectancy and increasing survival rate in treated first carcinomas suggest a further increase in this figure for the future. This possibility should therefore be borne in mind for every carcinoma patient, particularly since a second carcinoma has the same prognosis as the first and not the unfavorable prognosis of a metastasis or a recurrence.

Age Factors↗
PubMed1977

[A new formula for the measurement of rigor mortis: the determination of the FRR-index (author's transl)].

The manual examination of rigor mortis as currently used and its often subjective evaluation frequently produced highly incorrect deductions. It is therefore desirable that such inaccuracies should be replaced by the objective measuring of rigor mortis at the extremities. To that purpose a method is described which can also be applied in on-the-spot investigations and a new formula for the determination of rigor mortis--indices (FRR) is introduced.

Arm↗
PubMed1977

[Acute respiratory distress syndrome after near-drowning (author's transl)].

After successful rescue from drowning there may develop a situation which is called secondary drowning, resulting in acute respiratory distress characterized by interstitial pulmonary oedema, hypoxaemia, hypercapnia and acidosis during drowning, direct alteration of the alveolar membrane by aspirated water and particulate matters and a volume overloading by adsorption and--not seldom--inept therapy. This situation requires mechanical ventilation and forced diuresis, combined with high doses of steroids, antibiotics and digitalis. We present the case of an eleven year old patient whose clinical course demonstrate the necessity of exact clinical observation after rescue from drowning. After development of acute respiratory distress only the immediate utilization of the therapeutic modalities of an intensive care may result in a satisfactory outcome. Four months later our patient had normal pulmonary function except for a moderate reduction of compliance.

Anti-Bacterial Agents↗