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J Waller

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PubMed1975

The assessment and progress of long-stay and elderly psychiatric patients: the predictive validity of a ward behaviour questionnaire.

This paper describes an attempt to validate a behaviour rating scale used to predict the likelihood of discharge among elderly and long-stay patients in a psychiatric hospital. The scale measured behaviour on the ward as rated by nursing staff. The scale was a sensitive predictor of discharge among those with a low score (indicating least disability), except for patients with organic psychoses. However, many patients with low scores were not discharged. In order to improve the scale's use as a screening technique additional information was considered. The significance of the findings is discussed.

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[Detection of cancer of the fallopian tube by intra-uterine cytology. Apropos of a case].

The authors present a case of cancer of the Fallopian tube and the finding of malignant cells obtained from the cavity of the uterus. There was little in the clinical findings and the only positive sign was free post-menopausal bleeding on account of which a full assessment was undertaken. By using the Gravlee sound passed through the cervical canal the uterine cavity was washed out and this gave the opportunity of finding malignant cells when curettage had only shown benign polyps. At operation a cancer of the left ampulla which was encircling the ovary on the same side was removed.

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Post-traumatic intracranial epidural Aspergillus fumigatus abscess.

We report an intracranial epidural abscess caused by Aspergillus fumigatus in an immunocompetent patient. Infection occurred in a 20-year-old man 2 months after a frontal craniotomy following trauma. The abscess was encapsulated by a thickened dura and although the fungus did not invade the brain, frontal bone was infected and the patient presented with a subcutaneous frontal cellulitis. Initial management combined surgical drainage, resection of necrotic bone and liposomal amphotericin B (1 mg kg-1 per day). After 3 weeks of antifungal treatment a second evaluation surgery was performed. A clinically and radiologically unsuspected new abscess was found and evacuated. Treatment was completed with instillation into the cavity of amphotericin B at a concentration of 5 mg ml-1 and prolonged oral itraconazole (400-600 mg day-1). Treatment was successful and the patient is free of infection after 3 years.

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