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T F Scott

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Handcuff neuropathy revisited.

Peripheral nerve injury due to handcuff placement has been reported in the past, always involving the superficial radial nerve, and sometimes involving other peripheral nerves at the wrist. We present two unusual cases in which the ulnar nerves were affected, but the radial nerves were normal or only minimally affected. This serves to emphasize a broader clinical spectrum of handcuff injury. Significant disability may result. These cases also involve alcohol intoxication, which may predispose patients to this type of injury because of overly aggressive application of restraints motivated by the patients' bellicose behavior.

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Pattern and concentration of IgG in cerebrospinal fluid in neurosarcoidosis.

Reports have suggested that the pattern of CSF IgG differentiates neurosarcoidosis from multiple sclerosis. We examined CSF and serum of 7 patients with neurosarcoidosis to determine concentrations of IgG and albumin and the presence of oligoclonal bands. Our results showed that neurosarcoidosis may have associated abnormalities of IgG synthesis and oligoclonal bands present in CSF, but without a consistent pattern.

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The dysmature infant. Associated factors and outcome at 7 years of age.

Dysmaturity, diagnosed according to the Clifford criteria, was studied for the first time in a black population. The infants and matched control subjects were participants in the Collaborative Perinatal Study in Philadelphia from birth to 7 years of age. The incidence of dysmaturity was 25/1,000 live births; more boys than girls were born dysmature, reversing the normal male/female ratio found among black infants in the Collaborative Study as a whole. The condition was more common among post-term infants but did occur in earlier gestational weeks. The overall characteristics of the condition among this black population did not differ from those previously reported among white populations of various races. Surviving infants developed mentally and physically as well as control subjects. No prenatal or environmental characteristics were found that distinguished mothers of dysmature infants from those of nondysmature infants.

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