Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to J Graber.
The present study examines some of the beliefs about trichotillomania such as those concerning the sex and age of afflicted individuals. Information was gathered from an exhaustive literature review and surveys of the general public and college students. Data on such factors as prevalence, sex, age distribution, onset, codiagnosis, and details of the hair-pulling act are presented, and reviews of explanations and treatment are provided.
The x-rays of 110 patients with erosive Heberden-Bouchard arthrosis and the x-rays of 104 patients with non-erosive Heberden-Bouchard arthrosis were compared in order to determine the frequency and the severity of arthrotic changes in the thumb-saddle and the multangulum-navicular joints. In erosive Heberden-Bouchard arthrosis we found more characteristic arthrotic changes than in the non-erosive form. The more characteristic the erosive changes of the finger joints, the more extended the changes were in the thumb-saddle and the multangulum-navicular joints. Erosions of the carpal joints do occur during an erosive Heberdandan-Bouchard arthrosis, but seem to be very rare.