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H S Myers

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Contraction pattern variations in oesophagography.

In recent literature a pattern of transient transverse folds seen in oesophagography has been described as a new variant. It is suggested, however, that the pattern is part of a spectrum of oesophageal contractions that occurs with or without specific lesions, and that it is created by contraction of the transverse oblique muscles of the oesophagus.

Esophagus

Chronic Gaucher's disease: radiological findings in 17 South African cases.

This paper reports radiological findings in a series of 17 South African patients with chronic (adult or non-neuronopathic) Gaucher's disease. Osteoarticular signs are briefly analysed on the basis of their pathogenesis. The visceral findings included an enormous calcified spleen and three cases with pulmonary lesions. Important advances have been made recently in diagnosing. Gaucher's disease and detecting carriers by demonstration of deficiency of beta-glucosidase. Radiographs are not diagnostic, but they may provide valuable clues to the nature and extent of lesions in bone, and they are essential in orthopaedic management of Gaucher's disease.

Adolescent