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B S Epstein

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Symptomatic lumbar scoliosis with degenerative changes in the elderly.

Lumbar scoliosis with degenerative changes in the elderly presents with spondylosis, variable apophyseal joint arthrosis, laminar hypertrophy, and marginal osteophytos most prominent within the scoliotic apex. Resultant lumbar stenosis, alone or with ventral spurs and herniated discs as isolated or associated lesions, can produce disabling low-back and lower extremity pain, weakness, and neurogenic claudication relievable by appropriate decompressive surgery. Myelography is essential as a preoperative measure. Whether such scoliosis is superimposed on adolescent thoracolumbar scoliosis or arises anew in later life remains an open question.

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Antiemetic effectiveness of intraoperatively administered droperidol in pediatric strabismus outpatient surgery--preliminary report of a controlled study.

Low doses (0.05 mg/kg) of intravenously administered droperidol were given intraoperatively to randomly assigned pediatric strabismus patients in a controlled double-masked paradigm. No difference between control and treatment groups in the severity of vomiting was noted in the postanesthesia recovery room, but such a difference was probably present in the hospital rooms during the interval between room arrival and the meeting of hospital discharge criteria. Administration of the drug did not appear to produce somnolence sufficient to delay postoperative recovery.

Adolescent↗