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PubMed1993

Intracranial xanthogranuloma of the dura in Hand-Schüller-Christian disease. Case report.

The authors describe a 37-year-old man with the classic clinical features of Hand-Schüller-Christian disease. He presented with symptoms of increased intracranial pressure due to obstructive hydrocephalus secondary to a huge xanthogranuloma involving falx cerebri and tentorium cerebelli. Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural studies failed to demonstrate Langerhans histiocytes, however. The implication of this finding is discussed in light of the recent relevant literature.

Adult↗
PubMed1995

Huge Langerhans cell histiocytosis granuloma of choroid plexus in a child with Hand-Schüller-Christian disease. Case report.

In the literature, only two previous cases of presumed Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) granuloma involving choroid plexus have been reported in patients with Hand-Schüller-Christian (HSC) disease, but those cases were not verified by immunohistochemistry or electron microscopy. The authors report a case of LCH granuloma of the choroid plexuses of bilateral lateral ventricles and the fourth ventricle in a child affected by HSC disease. This disease was confirmed by the presence of Birbeck granules on electron microscopy and positive reactivity to S-100 protein. Clinical, radiographic, and histological features are discussed. This case illustrates that LCH granuloma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of intraventricular masses.

Biopsy↗
PubMed2000

Weber-Christian disease presenting with proptosis: a case report.

Weber-Christian disease (WCD) is a rare inflammatory disease of adipose tissue, which is characterized by painful cutaneous nodules and constitutional symptoms. Although any area of the body containing fat can be affected by WCD, the involvement of retrobulbar fat is uncommon and proptosis is a rare presenting manifestation. We report a case who presented with proptosis of the right eye which is accompanied by painful subcutaneous nodules, high fever and myalgia. Biopsies of retrobulbar tissue and suprapubic nodule showed lobular panniculitis with mixed cellular infiltration, mainly composed of histiocytes and lymphocytes. He responded well to high-dose glucocorticoid.

Adult↗
PubMed2005

[Orbital involvement as the first manifestation of Hand-Schuller-Christian disease. A case report].

UNLABELLED: PURPOSE/MATERIAL AND METHOD: To describe the clinical case of a 20-month-old boy with Hand-Schuller-Christian disease. Exophthalmos was the only systemic manifestation evident over a period of at least 6 weeks, but later the triad of exophthalmos with multiple lytic lesions of the skull and diabetes insipidus were present. RESULTS/CONCLUSION: Histiocytosis X should be considered in the differential diagnosis of orbital tumors in children.

Age Factors↗
PubMed1984

Theology links Christian ministry with God's call.

Catholic health care ministry originates in and is shaped by the theme of call in the Old and New Testaments. To be specifically Catholic, health professionals and facilities must define their ministries according to the values expressed in this theological tradition. Sponsorship. The opportunity to provide health care enables religious communities to contribute to God's ongoing creation process and to reiterate Christ's call to minister to others. Although health care facility sponsorship thrusts religious communities into the arena of big business, the abandonment of the health care mission could be considered a betrayal of evangelical values. Quality of life. The implicit concern for human dignity that distinguishes Catholic health care facilities should be evident in personalized patient care, just working conditions, and a commitment to healing in the civic community. Stewardship in ethics. The development of business policies and procedures and institutional responses to social change should be carefully considered in light of the Catholic understanding of loving covenant and the Christian way of life. Shared ministry. Health care facilities have played a leading role in implementing the Second Vatican Council's vision of ministry. Sponsoring communities' continued willingness to share responsibilities with laity will be imperative in meeting the health care demands of the future.

Career Choice↗
PubMed2000

[Professional cooperation and overview of the health status. Two important initiatives from Christian August Egeberg in 1838 and 1855].

Christian August Egeberg (1809-74) was a Norwegian military surgeon who practised surgery and family medicine in the capital city of Christiania and in neighbouring rural Baerum. He saw the medical profession's need for establishing a scientific community, for information-seeking and knowledge updates. He was among the founders of the Norwegian Medical Society in 1833 and in 1838 initiated a series of Scandinavian scientific conferences which lasted until 1929. In 1855 he established a notification system for contagious diseases with reports submitted every month from practising physician. The system was intended to provide a basis for surveillance of the so-called epidemic constitution, so that appropriate measures might be taken against prevailing diseases.

Communicable Disease Control↗
PubMed2000

[Andreas Christian Bull (1840-1920) and his survey of poliomyelitis].

Andreas Christian Bull was a Norwegian district physician who started his medical career in 1867. Contemporary physicians' interests were focused upon the cause of the diseases they encountered. Infectious diseases were dominating. The official opinion was that the cause could be a coincidence, relating to natural phenomena and bad sanitation, though some held the view that epidemic diseases were developing from contagious substances. Bull was an acute observer. In a medical report from 1868, he describes a peculiar epidemic disease diagnosed as meningitis cerebrospinalis acuta. He treated 14 patients, 12 of them children. His report is a comprehensive description of a poliomyelitis epidemic and the different states of the disease. At the time, physicians had no knowledge of an infectious disease localised in the spinal marrow. Bull's report was the first description of a poliomyelitis epidemic in Europe. In 1882 he published a report about trichina poisoning, the first diagnosis of trichinosis in human beings in Norway.

Disease Outbreaks↗
PubMed2001

[With forceps all over the world--Christian Kielland and his forceps].

The history of the obstetric forceps is a colourful chapter in the history of medicine. Several hundred obstetric forceps have been described in detail, but most of them were minor modifications of the prototypes. However, the forceps invented by the Norwegian gynaecologist Christian Kielland (1871-1941) had a considerable impact upon the obstetric world during most of the 20th century. This ingenious instrument was demonstrated in Munich in 1915 and was gradually quite extensively used nearly all over the world. However, a great deal of controversy has surrounded his forceps, also in Norway.

History, 19th Century↗
PubMed1975

[Involvement of nonhypothalamic encephalic structures in the Hand-Schüller-Christian disease. Report of a case and review of the literature].

A case of Hand-Schüller-Christian disease which presented a pyramidal syndrome besides elements of the classical triad and concentric retraction of the visual field is reported. The rare involvement of non-hypothalamic encephalic structures in that disease is emphasized together with the favourable effect of corticotherapy and radiotherapy.

Adolescent↗
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[Medical science at the time of the Ummayad Califs of Cordoba: Al-Zahrâwî and Ibn Wâfid, knowledgeable Andalusian phamacologists translated for the Christian West].

The Latin translations of major Arabian texts have largely contributed to the rise of medical sciences in christian Western during the middle age. Among the pharmacologist Andalusian erudites who have been translated into Latin language, for example by Gerard de Crémone, Al-Zahrâwî (Albucasis) and Ibn Wâfid are references. Al-Zahrâwî has written about materia medica in several books included in his thirty volume's encyclopaedia: "al-Tasriîf", Ibn Wâfid has given to the medical world two remarkable treatises; a really formulary "kitâb al-wisâd fi l-tibb" though a book of the simple drugs, "al-kitâb fî al-adwiya al-mufrada".

Arab World↗
PubMed2001

[The study of 18 cases of aspirin urticaria at dermatology of Yodogawa Christian Hospital--on the difference between aspirin asthma and aspirin urticaria].

Aspirin intolerance manifests itself as two clinical symptoms, urticaria/angioedema and asthma. However, there is seldom patient of aspirin intolerance who has the both symptoms, urticaria and asthma. So we suspect that the pathogenic mechanism for aspirin urticaria differs from that for aspirin asthma. We examined 18 patients of aspirin urticaria at dermatology of Yodogawa Christian Hospital, especially as to oral aspirin challenge test. All patients had no symptom of asthma. Threshold dose evoke urticaria/angioedema after ingesting 100 to 500 mg of aspirin (average, 311 mg). Urticaria/angioedema occurred within 50 minutes to 14 hours (average, 3 hours 16 minutes) after ingesting aspirin. The dose and the time of oral aspirin challenge test for these 18 patients were more spent than those for reported patients of aspirin asthma. These results support the opinion that aspirin urticaria has the different pathogenic mechanism from aspirin asthma. In addition, we experienced one patient of aspirin intolerance which caused hyperemia and edema of the bulbar conjunctiva. She had no symptom of urticaria and asthma, and had the both character of aspirin urticaria and asthma as to aspirin challenge test. We propose that aspirin intolerance is classified in reaction of the skin (urticaria/angioedema) and reaction of the mucosa (asthma), and it has an intermediate type.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2001

[Adam Christian Thebesius (1686-1732) and the discovery of the Vasa Cordis Minima].

In first years of the 18th century, Raymond Vieussens (1635-1713) and Adam Christian Thebesius (1686-1732) discovered the Vasa cordis minima, today known as Vasa Thebesii; in 1868, Odilon Marc Lannelongue (1840-1911) described the so-called crypts of Lannelongue in the right atrium. The present study gives a historical survey over the research on the cardiac vascularization before 1700 and presents these three authors and their works on the Thebesian vessels with a biographical introduction and a commented translation. As for the biography of the Silesian anatomist Thebesius large, mostly inedited materials from Polish archives and from family archives were studied, among them, poems, a handwritten biography and a pedigree of the family. A schedule tables the studies and articles on the Thebesian vessels and the Thebesian valve published since 1708. As a commentary to the bibliography, the present stage of knowledge on the Thebesian vessels is shortly summarized. Although a compensatory function of the Thebesian vessels in coronary sclerosis and other pathological conditions has been discussed repeatedly, methodical difficulties still do not allow a reliable judgement on the role of the Thebesian vessels in physiological and pathological conditions. This study shows the contradictory results and summarizes all statements which have been published on the embryology, comparative anatomy, macroscopical and (electron-)microscopical anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and cardio-surgery. The aim is to encourage an interdiscplinary discussion on the base of the thorough literature study.

Anatomy↗
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[Study of the biological activity of direct ferments of the Christian Hansen company used in the production of lactic acid milk products].

Lactic acids being the components of ferments of Christian Hansen company (10(7)-10(11) CFU/g of the lactic-acid product) have been studied as affected by antibiotics. All seven species of concentrates have manifested resistance to 14 tested antibiotics, including, oxycillin, canamycin and cyprobay which are most frequently used in treatment for bacterioses of the digestive tract. Antagonistic activity of the polystrain cultures has been established with respect to the broad range of conditionally pathogenic microorganisms on the MRS medium with glucose and without it; this is obviously connected not only with formation of lactic acid, but also with synthesis of other biologically active substances.

Anti-Bacterial Agents↗
PubMed2001

Missionary positions: Christian, modernist, postmodernist.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s "the missionary position" became widespread as a technical expression for face-to-face man-on-top sexual intercourse. It was accompanied by standard (and undocumented) stories as to the origin of the expression, stories featuring missionaries and either Polynesians, Africans, Chinese, Native Americans, or Melanesians. By the late 1980s and 1990s the expression had become a core symbol in modernist and postmodernist moral discourses. This paper examines accounts of the origin of the expression, provides evidence that it originated in Kinsey's (mis)reading of Malinowski, analyzes the symbolic elements of the missionary-position narrative as synthesizing modernist objections to Christian morality, analyzes the "missionary position" in postmodernist narratives as synthesizing postmodernist objections to modernist morality, and explores some of the functions of this myth within the academy.

Anthropology↗
PubMed2004

[The Tabulae anatomicae (1794-1803) of Justus Christian Loder: anatomical illustration between science, art and commerce].

With the publication of his Tabulae anatomicae in 1803, the Jena anatomist Justus Christian Loder (1753-1832) fulfilled the desideratum of a complete collection of anatomical illustrations of the entire human body. His "Tables" were one of the largest and most ambitious anatomical atlases in the German-speaking countries around 1800. The work reflects Loder's scientific concepts, the quality of his artists and the economic conditions of his publisher. Intended for a wide use in academic instruction, Loder's Tabulae popularised a style of illustration that focused on anatomical facts as basic statements and avoided artistic additions or culturally normative symbolism. Loder opposed theoretical transcendence and standardisation in the representation of human anatomy.

Anatomy↗
PubMed2004

[Successful treatment of Weber-Christian panniculitis with cyclosporin-A].

The inflammatory disease of the subcutaneous fatty tissue are called panniculitis. The panniculitis has got a septal and a lobular histopathologic type. In the opinion of the etiologic classification occurs idiopathic (primary) or secondary entity. The secondary illnesses develop as the result of physical, chemical, biochemical, immunological, degenerative and proliferative reactions. In a part of panniculitis the etiologic factor is unknown. The authors demonstrate a rare type of the panniculitis, the Weber-Christian syndrome. This disease is an acute relapsing panniculitis with unknown etiology, fever, general symptoms and typical subcutaneous nodes. In their case the histological examination of the subcutaneous node resulted in non-suppurative, lobular panniculitis. The oral metilprednisolon and the occurring twice parenteral cyclophosphamide treatment had been proved to be unsuccessful, for this reason they started cyclosporin A therapy. Because of the cyclosporin A treatment the subcutaneous nodes regressed, the general symptoms ceased and the pathological laboratory findings became normal. The patient is asymptomatic under permanent therapy now. The authors discuss the differential diagnostic of this illness and the ways of treatments.

Aged↗
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[Christian Ehrenfried Eschenbach (1712-1788)--a pioneer of legal medicine in German universities].

Christian Ehrenfried Eschenbach (1712-1788) belongs to the forerunners of the embossed natural science scholars of legal medicine in Germany. As a principal re-elected 11 times and dean of the medical faculty at Rostock University he defended academic positions in difficult times. His bibliography comprises numerous text books, e.g. on surgery, anatomy, pathology and obstetrics as well as various fields of mathematics. His Medicina legalis (1746 and 1775) belongs to the first systematic editions of forensic medicine in the German-speaking community. Thanks to his extensive practical experience as a physician and public health officer he took a very progressive position on questions of forensic medicine, issues of professional ethics in medicine and the assessment of injuries. He has wrongly been forgotten.

Forensic Medicine↗
PubMed1992

[Christian Gottlieb Selle (1748-1800), the last private physician of Friedrich the Great].

Among the physicians in ordinary to Frederick the Great Christian Gottlieb Selle ranks chronologically in the last place. In the course of his professional life the physician who graduated in Halle in 1770 was promoted to head positions in the Prussian public health organization and medical care of Berlin. His expertise for a new Halle education model inaugurated the era of the Halle Schola clinica in 1787.

Famous Persons↗