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L Brandt

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Feasibility of brief intermention in the workplace for the detection and treatment of excessive alcohol consumption.

The aim of this study was to see whether brief intervention, a method used in the health care services, can be useful in the workplace. At routine health check-ups carried out by the occupational health service (OHS), employees were offered the opportunity to check their alcohol-use habits. Of the 333 employees who were offered alcohol-use screening, only six (2%) failed to participate. Of the remaining 327, 21% (n=68) screened positive for excessive alcohol consumption and were contacted by the OHS. The majority of these, 43 (62%), accepted a further check-up of their alcohol consumption. A much higher percentage of those who were contacted by telephone (80%) than those who were contacted by letter (17%) subsequently came to the OHS. One probable spin-off effect of the project was that 23 persons outside the screened group contacted the OHS about their alcohol abuse problems. The results indicate that it is feasible to use screening and secondary preventive methods at the workplace to discover alcohol abuse.

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Southern travelling habits with special reference to tumour site in Swedish melanoma patients.

Southern travelling habits were recorded for 127 melanoma patients from southern parts of Sweden (the 56th latitude), 55 thyroid cancer patients, 100 non-Hodgkin's patients and 794 healthy controls from the same region. Melanoma patients were found to travel significantly more often south of the 45th latitude, as compared with patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma or thyroid carcinoma (RR = 2.2 for a difference of + 10 trips), and with the healthy controls (RR = 1.4 for a difference of + 10 trips). Considering men and women separately, the difference was significant only for men. Patients with melanoma had a higher educational level than the tumour controls and the healthy controls (p < 0.001 and p < 0.001 respectively). There was a significant correlation between high travelling frequency and high education. An increased risk related to southern travelling was present for patients with melanoma on the extremities and head and neck, as well as for patients with truncal melanoma. These findings support the concept that acute exposure to sunburn may be a risk factor for malignant melanoma.

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Comparison of myelography, CT myelography and magnetic resonance imaging in cervical spondylosis and disk herniation. Pre- and postoperative findings.

Twenty-six patients with cervical radiculopathy and/or myelopathy caused by spondylosis or disk herniation were examined with myelography, CT myelography and MR. Fourteen of the patients were operated upon and 11 of them underwent postoperative MR and CT. The three radiologic methods provided comparable information about narrowing of the subarachnoid space and compression of the spinal cord. It was more difficult to distinguish bone from soft tissue with MR only, but the combination of MR and conventional radiography gave sufficient information for this differentiation. When radiologic nerve root sheath deformity was compared with clinical radiculopathy, myelography, CT myelography and MR had similar sensitivity and accuracy. Postoperative MR could reveal remaining indentation on the thecal sac and the cord but CT without contrast medium was useful as a complement to determine the aetiology of the indentation. Because MR has several practical advantages, it is well suited as the primary imaging modality, together with conventional radiography, for the preoperative radiologic evaluation of patients with cervical radiculopathy and/or myelopathy. Postoperative MR is useful in patients with persistent or new symptoms.

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Persisting intraventricular fat-fluid levels following surgery on a ruptured dermoid cyst of the posterior fossa.

Intracranial dermoid cysts occasionally rupture spontaneously into the ventricles or into the subarachnoid space. In such cases, intraventricular fat-fluid levels are invariably evident at computed tomography and may even be visible on a conventional radiograph of the skull. A case is described in which fat was observed to remain in the ventricles long after surgical removal of a dermoid cyst. We think that this fat, by causing obstruction of the cerebrospinal fluid pathways, should be regarded as a potential cause of intermittent elevation of intracranial pressure.

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