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B Strickland

Publications and source records attributed to B Strickland.

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PubMed1984

Computed tomography in the assessment of bullous lung disease.

The assessment of bullous lung disease with respect to possible surgical treatment requires anatomical and functional information about the extent of disease and the mechanism of symptom production. It is also important to measure the function of non-bullous lung and to make some prediction of the behaviour of non-bullous lung after resection of bullae. We have used computed tomography during inspiration and expiration together with bronchoscopic single-breath inert gas techniques of regional lung function to assess such patients. Computed tomography clearly demonstrates the extent and distribution of bullous disease while both the computed tomography and the bronchoscopic argon/freon test give functional information about bullous and non-bullous lung. In our experience computed tomography improves the assessment of bullous lung disease.

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PubMed1977

Orientation on understanding interpersonal influence.

Everyone influences and is influenced by others. Are you satisfied with the impact your influence has on others? If not, it can be changed by examining and working on the dimensions of your "style of influence," such as activity, visibility, involvement, and productivity. The author analyzes some of the opposites on a spectrum or "wheel of influence," showing how they may be melded by moderation to achieve the kind of impact you may wish. For instance, there is the analyzer vs. the performer, the leader vs. the follower, the experimenter vs. the organizer, and the asserter vs. the listener. As modes of influence, extremes in any dimension are self-defeating, but by balancing aspects of both sides, desirable "compromises" can be developed. Should you wish to change your style of influence, helfpful procedures to follow are suggested, which, hopefully, will result in satisfying interpersonal relationships and understanding.

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PubMed1976

"Sentinel lines"--an unusual sign of lower lobe contraction.

Of the various densities occurring in the lower zones of the standard postero-anterior chest radiograph, one sign has been ignored. Coarse linear densities at the bases may be due to adjacent lower lobe contraction. The cause is related to bending or kinking of the lower zone bronchi, usually the superior and inferior branches of the lingular bronchi. The densities are probably due to mucus-filled bronchi or alveolar atelectasis distal to the kink. resulting from poor bronchial drinage, and may indicate more extensive disease. The left lower lobe collapse may not be visible on the chest radiograph but the presence of these densities should alert the observer to the more important associated abnormality.

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PubMed1976

Group dynamics--a point of view. People, interaction, and change.

Group dynamics is analyzed both as a science and as an art. Three major elements--people, their interaction, and the change emanating from that interaction--are discussed. People come together as a group with basic needs, such as the need to feel important. Ideally, they will feel some cooperative sense of unity; inevitably, they will interact. Passive, verbal, or restless--as the case may be--they will influence one another toward a positive or a negative goal. For a successful, total group experience, good leadership is essential, with planning to insure a climate of discovery, properly budgeted time, and realistic goals, with allowances for limitations. Group participants help each other learn, and spectators become doers who achieve goals. Guidelines, techniques, and recommended reading accompany the article.

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