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H Becker

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PubMed1982

[Diagnostic problems in monoclonal gammopathies].

This is a report on 123 patients with monoclonal gammopathies at Graz University Medical School. Approximately 75 percent of them were malignant, the rest benign or unclassified. In view of the considerable interest for differential diagnosis benign versus malignant, the criteria for both are given.

Antibodies, Monoclonal↗
PubMed1981

[Clinical pathological analysis of peripartum maternal mortality (author's transl)].

All maternal deaths which occurred in relation to labour at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital, Graz, between 1963 and 1978 were reviewed and analysed. 24 mothers died over this 15-year period. The maternal death rate was 0.34 per thousand. In all cases a post mortem examination was performed. The youngest woman was 19, the oldest 42 years old. Most of the decreased mothers were primiparae. The main cause of maternal death was post-partum haemorrhage, followed by infection of the uterus especially after Caesarean section. Three mothers died of liver distrophy. The remaining causes were eclampsia (2 cases); pulmonary artery embolism after Caesarean section (2 cases); irreversible shock from amniotic fluid and air embolism (one case each); uraemia due to glomerulo- or pyelonephritis (one case each); malignant melanoma (one case). It is demonstrated that special risk factors are advanced maternal age, low social status and lack of antenatal care.

Adult↗
PubMed1981

[A 5-year review of prenatal diagnosis in Graz (author's transl)].

Between 1/7/1974 and 30/6/1979 we analysed 532 amniotic fluid cell cultures. In 402 cases a genetic indication for amniocentesis was given; 57 prenatal diagnoses were carried out for gynaecological and other medical indications. We also analysed 73 amniotic fluid test samples. Altogether 19 pathological results (3.6%) were found. We observed 16 abnormal findings in 459 diagnostic amniocenteses and 3 pathological results in the test cultures. The transmission of parental chromosomal polymorphisms to the fetus is discussed here. The importance of prenatal diagnosis in genetic counselling, along with cost-benefit reflections, are stressed in this paper.

Adult↗
PubMed1981

[Spices].

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PubMed1981

[Lung resections in bronchial carcinoma of patients older than 70 years (author's transl)].

In a retrospective study (1969--1979) of 530 resections performed because of bronchial carcinoma, there were 70 patients older than 70 years (13.2%). Two-thirds of their resections were carried out on T 1--2 N0M0 and one-third on T 1--2-N1M0. For 22 central and 48 peripheral carcinomas, 25 pneumonectomies, 40 lobectomies, and 5 bilobectomies were performed. The mortality was 14.2% (lung embolism, pneumonia, apoplexia, and one insufficiency of the bronchial resection stump). Postoperative complications were atelectasis (28.5%), pneumonia (4%), lung embolism (6%), and two pleura empyemas. Of the patients operated on from 1976 to 1978, 40% (T1N0M0) and 30% (T2N0M0) and 30% (T2N0M0) are alive after 2.5 years.

Adenocarcinoma↗
PubMed1981

Intrinsic tendon cell proliferation in tissue culture.

This study examines the potential of tendon cells to participate in tendon repair. Explants were prepared from chicken sublimis tendons and studied in tissue culture. Under defined culture conditions, in the absence of tendon sheath, tendon cells were observed to migrate in a limited concentric fashion around the margin of a 2 mm window in the explant. When a plasma clot was present in the window, tendon cell migration and proliferation were accelerated and continued until the window was confluent with cells. Electron micrographs demonstrated that these tendon cells were fibroblasts associated with extracellular collagen fibrils. Specific biochemical analyses confirmed that these tendon fibroblasts were synthesizing collagen. This in vitro study demonstrates that tendons contain active fibroblasts capable of proliferation, migration, and collagen synthesis. These findings support the hypothesis that tendons can heal by intrinsic processes.

Animals↗
PubMed1981

[CT of the base of the skull in bacterial meningitis (author's transl)].

CT examinations of 42 cases of bacterial meningitis revealed in 38, 1% of the cases relevant inflammatory processes at the base of the skull which were of significant importance for a transmitted infection. Such infections were: Sinusitis frontalis, ethmoidalis, maxillaris and sphenoidalis, mastoiditis or petrositis, suppurating mucocele, impression fracture, and an intracranially penetrated foreign body. Excepting the identification of fine fractures, conventional x-ray films were diagnostically superior. Hence, especially in the acute stages, special projections can be omitted, if CT is effected in the region of the osseous base of the skull. CT performed in inflammatory diseases of the brain must include the base of the skull, since this will yield reliable pointers to an original focus of the inflammation requiring appropriate treatment and elimination.

Foreign Bodies↗
PubMed1981

[Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome in Austria. Four cases with one fatal outcome. 2. Pathological findings].

First pathoanatomic case report of mucocutaneous lymph-node syndrome (MCLS) from Austria: A 3 1/2 year old boy was admitted to the Pediatric Department with a six day history of fever and bilateral conjunctivitis. He showed a maculous exanthema, red and fissuring lips, reddened tonsils and a coated tongue. Submandibular lymph nodes were swollen (1 cm diameter); ESR 128/138; peripheral leukocytosis 17 x 10(9)/l. On the tenth day of illness membranous desquamation from the fingertips and a strawberry tongue was observed. The ECG showed a myocardial infarction in the apical portion of the left ventricle. The boy died on the 25th day of illness. Pathological findings were found predominantly in the heart: Coronary arteries showed fibrous thickening of intimal layer, focal destruction of elastic membrane and aneurysms in both arteries. The aneurysm in the descending branch of the left coronary artery was 15 mm long and had a maximum diameter of 8 mm. It was completely occluded by a thrombus. Recurring anteroseptal myocardial infarction. Other investigated arteries were not affected. Tonsils as well as (paratracheal and parapancreatic) lymph-nodes showed a few ceroid pigment containing histiocytes.

Aneurysm↗