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E Boyd

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PubMed1971

Chromosome breakage and ultrasound.

Human lymphocyte cultures were examined for chromosome damage after exposure to ultrasound. Control and treated slides were scored "blind" and showed no evidence of damage due to ultrasound. Neither was there evidence of chromosome damage in blood cultures from six infants whose mothers had ultrasound during pregnancy when compared with that from six infants whose mothers had not. Our results suggest that if diagnostic ultrasound causes chromosome damage it does so with less frequency than acceptable levels of diagnostic x-irradiation.

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Cranial electrotherapy stimulation as a treatment for anxiety in chemically dependent persons.

Cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) is reported to be an effective treatment for anxiety, a major presenting symptom among chemically dependent patients. In this study, 40 inpatient alcohol and/or polydrug users were given CES or sham CES in a double blind design. An additional 20 patients served as normal hospital routine controls. Dependent measures of anxiety were the Profile of Mood States, the Institute for Personality and Ability Testing Anxiety Scale, and the State/Trait Anxiety Index. CES-treated patients showed significantly greater improvement on all anxiety measures than did either control group. There were no differences in response between older and younger patients, or between the primarily drug or alcohol abusers. No placebo effect was found on any of our measures. It is concluded tht CES is a clinically significant addition to the treatment regimen for this patient population.

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Diagnosis of ameloblastoma of the maxilla by fine needle aspiration. A case report.

Ameloblastoma is a tumor of odontogenic epithelium that occurs in the jaws. We describe a case of an ameloblastoma of the maxilla that was diagnosed by fine needle aspiration cytology. The patient presented with a mass in the left maxillary sinus. Cytologic examination of the aspirate material showed numerous sheets of tightly packed basaloid cells. Several sheets of cells were surrounded by a row of columnar cells, with the nuclei oriented away from the basement membrane (peripheral palisading). Histologic examination of the resection specimen confirmed the presence of an ameloblastoma of the maxilla.

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