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S Nightingale

Publications and source records attributed to S Nightingale.

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PubMed1982

Somatoparaphrenia: a case report.

A patient with a severe organic schizophreniform illness is described in whom the bizarre psychotic features were related to a non-dominant parietal lobe lesion. This case is a severe and unusual form of the neuro-psychiatric disorder, somatoparaphrenia. The relationship of this condition to other disorders of parietal lobe function is discussed.

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PubMed1982

Early-delayed radiation rhombencephalopathy.

A 37-year-old woman developed an early-delayed rhombencephalopathy 7 weeks after completing a course of radiotherapy to a glomus jugulare tumour. The clinical features, comprising nystagmus, skew strabismus, unilateral facial weakness, dysarthria and ataxia, are compared with four previously reported patients with this syndrome.

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PubMed1982

Polymyalgia rheumatica with diffuse cerebral disease responding rapidly to steroid therapy.

A 58-year-old woman presented with the classical features of polymyalgia rheumatica. She also had a global dementia; CT scan and EEG showed diffuse cerebral disease. After steroid treatment, the polymyalgia rheumatica and dementia rapidly resolved and the CT scan and EEG became normal. The inter-relationships of the giant cell arteritides are discussed in the light of this report of the association of polymyalgia rheumatica and steroid-responsive diffuse cerebral disease.

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PubMed1981

Anorexia nervosa, liquorice and hypokalaemic myopathy.

A patient with a past history of anorexia nervosa developed a hypokalaemic myopathy following a 'flu-like illness. Although she was apparently in remission from anorexia nervosa, the diet was found to be markedly abnormal with an excessive ingestion of liquorice and a low potassium salt intake. The clinical features and investigations, including muscle biopsy, are described. The patient is compared, with 2 reported cases of liquorice-induced myopathy, and the relationship between anorexia nervosa, liquorice and hypokalaemic myopathy is discussed.

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PubMed1978

The haematology of hyperthyroidism.

In an unselected series of 239 patients with uncomplicated hyperthyroidism the haemoglobin concentration was less than 12.0 g/dl in 37 of 207 women and below 13.0 g/dl in 9 of 32 men. Although some of these patients with a low level of haemoglobin were iron deficient, with a transferrin saturation less than 16 per cent, many were not. On treatment of hyperthyroidism the haemoglobin rose by an average of 0.5 g/dl in patients who had not been anaemic on diagnosis. A small fall in haemoglobin is therefore usual in hyperthyroidism and it may sometimes be sufficient to cause a mild degree of anaemia. The mean corpuscular volume (MCV) was decreased in hyperthyroid patients who had neither anaemia nor a reduced transferrin saturation. After treatment of hyperthyroidism the MCV rose in these patients by an average of 6 fl. A dimunition in MCV, even within the normal range, is an invariable concomitant of hyperthyroidism. The administration of thyroxine to excess does not, however, cause the same change in the MCV. On diagnosis of hyperthyroidism the prevalence of pernicious anaemia in this series of patients was 1.9 per cent. Gastric parietal cell antibodies were present in 15.4 per cent and thyroid microsomal antibodies in 49.5 per cent.

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