Postgraduate medical journal
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Letter Case Reports
Serial neopterin concentrations in disseminated T-cell lymphoma.
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Case Reports
Influenza A infection with rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure--a potentially fatal complication.
This paper describes a case of influenza A infection complicated by rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure. This very rare complication is particularly important as symptoms may be non-specific and therefore ascribed to the underlying influenzal illness.
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The well established use of oral morphine in the treatment of chronic cancer pain has developed empirically and a knowledge of its pharmacokinetics is not necessary in order to use the drug effectively. However recent information about the pharmacokinetics of morphine may help resolve the controversy about oral to parenteral relative potency ratios, and may also in the future shed some light on the problem of patients whose pain does not respond to morphine.
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Pain about the bridge of the nose is often a diagnostic dilemma. There is an important recognizable subgroup who may, as a consequence of involvement of the external nasal nerve in nasal injury, exhibit neuralgic pain after a latent interval. Temporary relief by anaesthesia can be achieved and cure is possible by division of the anterior ethmoidal nerve. This rare cause of facial pain is presented using two illustrative cases.