Abbreviations usually being a useful and precious help for understanding achieve yet the reverse as increasing misuse takes place, especially in medical journals. Often understood only by experts in a special field they promote neither the communications between the disciplines nor the cooperation between clinic and practice. Editors of (medical) journals, therefore, are advised to start each contribution with a tabulated glossary and an explanation of the applied abbreviations.

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PubMed1981

[Sense and nonsense of abbreviations (SNoA)].

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PubMed1980

[Coincidence of a thalidomide-induced malformation and a lymphoma of high malignancy (author's transl)].

The case history of a fifteen year old patient with Thalidomide induced malformation who developed a lymphoma of high malignancy is presented.

Abnormalities, Drug-Induced↗

PubMed1977

[Symmetrical cortical calcification of the cerebrum following pre-natal encephalitis (author's transl)].

Purely cortical cerebral calcification without involvement of the cerebellum was observed radiologically in a 3-month old girl; the calcification was extensive and symmetrical. During a three year period of observation, she showed severe psychomotor retardation, spasticity, microcephaly, a secondary scoliosis, subluxation of the hips and fits. These changes have only been observed so far following pre-natal herpes encephalitis. Following this condition there may also be periventricular calcification. Therefore it is assumed that the extensive cortical calcification is due to a virus, but not necessarily a specific one and that it depends on the age of the foetus at the time of the infection.

Brain Diseases↗

PubMed1976

[The phenotype of the trisomy of the short arm of chromosome no. 4. (a new case with t (4p; 11q) (author's transl)].

Report on a 5 year old girl with the caracteristic features of the partial trisomy of the short arm of a chromosome no.4: short stature, microcephaly, hydrocephaly, enophthalmus, bulbous nose, deep set malformed ears, hypertrichosis, brachydactyly, hypoplastic ribs, abnormal EEG, imbecility. Trisomy originated from a reciprocal translocation in the father (46, XY, rcp (4;11) (p 13; q23)). q23)).

Abnormalities, Multiple↗