Biomedical subjects

C L Carpenter

Publications and source records attributed to C L Carpenter.

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PubMed1980

Melanoma in the dermatologist's office.

Data about melanomas seen in a private dermatologist's office during a fifteen year period were evaluated as to size, location, stage, and histologic level of the lesions, and sex and survival of the patients. Forty-three melanomas were seen in forty-one patients. Only four patients (9 percent) died as a result of their melanomas. All patients were at clinical stage 1 of the disease. Thirty-two lesions were smaller than 1.6 cm. Twenty-four (56 percent) of the lesions were of the superficial spreading type. Apparently, patients with melanomas seek advice at a dermatologist's office when their disease is at an earlier stage of development than do patients generally seen in other types of medical settings. A plea is made to examine patients yearly for pigmented lesions. The number of melanomas seen per 10,000 patient-visits rose during the fifteen year period.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1979

Periumbilical perforating pseudoxanthoma elasticum.

Periumbilical pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) with transepidermal elimination of altered elastica presented a distinctive clinical pattern in six middle-aged, multiparous women. Other sites usually affected in PXE were spared. The possible genetic predisposition to PXE of these patients found its expression in the periumbilical skin, a site exposed to the trauma of multiple pregnancies. The extruded elastica had tinctorial properties that were characteristic of PXE. The clinical picture in our cases differs from clasic PXE. A peculiar acquired cutaneous PXE is not excluded.

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PubMed1978

Fixed drug eruptions to tetracyclines.

We observed 11 cases of fixed drug eruption to tetracyclines. Two cases were in a mother and her adult son, and two patients experienced fading of their lesions while continuing to take 1 g of the drug per day. Several patients were cross-reactive to different salts.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1976

Another view of schizophrenia subtypes. A report from the international pilot study of schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia subtypes are defined predominantly my manifest symptoms and behavior. This report, based on sign and symptom data from the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia, addresses three questions: (1) Are traditional subtype diagnoses applied similarly across cultures? (2) Are the various traditional subtypes symptomatically distinguishable from one another? (3) Can cluster analytic techniques define a more distinctive set of schizophrenic subgroups? Present State Examination data were reduced to 27 psychopathologic signs and symptoms. Profile analysis of variance results indicate that each subtype appears similar, regardless of center of origin. However, this is based on a lack of distinguishing features between different subtypes. On the other hand, when a cluster analytic technique was used, it showed one large and three small subgroups, each readilty distinguishable from the others. These subgroups, labeled "usual," "flagrant," "insightful," and "hypochondriacal," are described clinically. If replicated or validated, such subgroups may prove meaningful in future considerations of subdivisions of the schizophrenia syndrome.

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PubMed1974