Southern medical journal
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Patients with chronic snuff-induced keratosis associated with mucosal ulcerations were treated with topically applied vitamin A acid. In each case, after a marked, local inflammatory response initially, topical vitamin A acid showed a definite beneficial effect in promoting healing and involution of the precancerous snuff-induced leukoplakic keratosis. In one patient there was distinct involution of the oral lesions with complete healing and restoration of a normal-appearing mucosa within five weeks after beginning of treatment. In four patients there was healing of superficial ulcerations and regression in the size of the luekoplakic lesions.
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Mineral oil scrapings from an infant with a persistent, puzzling, generalized eruption revealed the mite, Sarcoptes scabiei. Various diagnostic technics and treatment for scabies are discussed.
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Southern medical journal · May 1975
Flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy with general anesthesia in the poor-risk patient.
A study is presented of seven poor-risk patients who had bronchoscopy with a flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope and balanced general anesthesia. The cardiorespiratory status, as evidenced by arterial blood gas determinations, electrocardiographic findings, and blood pressure measurements, was improved and stabilized in all patients. Flexible fibeoptic bronchoscopy, combined with general anesthesia, has proved to be a reliable and safe procedure useful for both diagnosis and treatment in poor-risk patients.