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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Surgical Treatment For Renal Cell Carcinoma, Robert Di Loreto, Joseph C. Cerny

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Despite recent advances in chemotherapy, radiation therapy and immunology, renal cell carcinoma can best be treated by early detection and radical surgery. Today, radical nephrectomy is the standard surgery of choice for removing malignant renal tumors. Of the surgical procedures that have been used in the past, the transabdominal incision offers the best exposure of retroperitoneal structures at the diaphragmatic level and the contralateral renal vasculature. Occasionally, supraradical procedures are recommended if tumor size and location require this approach.

Bilateral Renal Cell Carcinoma: Two Case Reports, Riad N. Farah

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Henry Ford Hospital Clinicopathological Conference

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Letters To The Editor

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Management Of Renal Cell Carcinoma: Evaluation Of Renal Masses By Modem Radiological Techniques, W. R. Eyler, M. A. Sandler, S. C. Cross, B. L. Madrazo

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

The utilty of ultrasound and computed tomography is compared to angiography and that of nephrotomography in the study of renal masses. Ultrasound and computed tomography, noninvasive methods, are replacing nephrotomography and, in some cases, angiography

The Role Of Radiation Therapy In Renal Carcinoma, Joel Elliot White

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

In the treatment of renal adenocarcinoma, radiation therapy alone is insufficient. Preoperative radiation increases the resectability rate and delays metastasis, but overall improvement in survival is tentative. Postoperative radiation has not been of proven benefit. While palliation may be achieved, relatively high doses of radiation are required.

Diagnostic And Therapeutic Immunology Of Renal Cell Cancer, Richard C. Klugo

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

There is evidence that renal cell carcinoma can alter the host immunologic system in several modalities. Diagnostic immunologic monitoring techniques reviewed in this report include delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity reaction (DCHR), absolute peripheral lymphocyte count (APLC), lymphocyte mitogen response (LMR), T-lymphocyte population (erythrocyte rosette), microcytotoxicity assay, in vitro monocyte chemotaxis, and serum blocking factors. Therapeutic immunologic modalities include xenogeneic immune ribonucleic acid (RNA), intradermal BCG, preoperative transcatheter renal artery embolization, immune plasma transfusion, transfer factor, and polymerized autologous tumor.

Chemotherapy Of Metastatic Renal Adenocarcinoma With A Five- Drug Regimen*, Robert W. Talley, N. A. Oberhauser, Robert W. Brownlee, Robert M. O'Bryan

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

In the past, chemotherapy of renal adenocarcinoma has been relatively unsuccessful. The progestational agent, medroxy progesterone acetate (MPA), has been the most effective single agent, even though the response rate probably does not exceed 12%. This report describes the results of a program of combination therapy with MPA, cyclophosphamide, hydroxyurea, vinblastine and prednisone that was used on 42 patients, ten of whom had received prior MPA therapy. One complete remission and seven partial remissions were observed, oniyone of whom had received prior MPA therapy. Treatment of metastatic renal adenocarcinoma with combination chemotherapy should probably include MPA and adriamycin. The role …

Evaluation Of A Simplified Measurement For Low Glomerular Filtration Rates With Lndium-111 Dtpa, L. E. Preuss, R. S. Michaels, F. P. Bolin, N. W. Levin, C. Artman

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A rapid new method for measuring glomerular filtration rates using 111In diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (111In- DTPA) was evaluated with 39 patients who showed marked impairment of renal function (creatinine clearance less than 20 ml/min). A simple, single compartment system was assumed. For comparison, parallel inulin and creatinine clearances were performed. High linear correlations (r = 0.96-0.97) were demonstrated when 111In- DTPA clearances were compared with the standard nonisotopic tests. Initial data indicate that reliable isotopic clearance values could be obtained for low clearances by withdrawing only two blood samples for assay at 6 and 48 hours after isotope injection (without …

Isolation Of An Acid-Fast Organism From The Aqueous Humor In A Case Of Sarcoidosis, C. L. Barth, M. S. Judge, L. H. Mattman, P. C. Hessburg

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

The anterior chamber fluid from the eye of this patient with sarcoidosis was found to contain microcolonies of a cellwall-deficient organism that was propagated and identified as acid-fast by the Intensified Acid-Fast stain. The colonies were inoculated into mice and retrieved from the dead or sacrificed animals. This report suggests that the acid-fast microbe in the aqueous humor of this case of uveitis-sarcoidosis may be the same organism as that found in the blood in sarcoidosis. Thus, it may be associated not only with the primary disease, but also with the complications of Boeck's sarcoidosis.

Portal Hypertension In Children: Three Case Reports And Review Of Recent Progress In Treatment, Philip J. Howard

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

The diagnosis and surgical management of extrahepatic portal hypertension in infants and children have improved dramatically in the last 50 years, as evidenced by the reported mortalities of 46% in 1928-1935 and only 12% in 1974. The diagnosis Is often evident from the first sudden gastrointestinal bleeding Incident and can be verified quickly with fiberoptic esophagoscopy and x-rays. The surgeon has a choice of multiple shunt procedures to control portal pressure.

Notices

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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1978 Publications Of The Staff Of Henry Ford Hospital

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Commencement Program 1979, Loma Linda University

Commencement Programs

CONTENTS

2 | 1979 Events of Commencement

3 | Conferring of Degrees

7 | Candidates for Degrees

26 | Awards

27 | Academic Costume

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Biochemical Discovery Of Homogentisic Acid Pigment In An Ochronotic Egyptian Mummy, Frederick F. Stenn, James W. Milgram, Sandra L. Lee, Raymond J. Weigand, Arthur Veis, Frank Rogers

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Rheumatoid Arthritis, Jeanne M. Riddle

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Osteoarthritis In Prehistoric Turkey And Medieval Byzantium, J. Lawrence Angel

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Hunter-Gatherer/Agriculturalist Arthritic Patterns: A Preliminary Investigation, Robert B. Pickering

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Vertebral Osteophytosis In Dickson Mound Populations: A Biomechanical Interpretation, George A. Clark, Jack A. Delmond

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Degenerative Joint Disease Of The Long Bones In Dickson Mounds, Debra L. Martin, George J. Armelagos, Jack R. King

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The Impact Of Rheumatic Disease On Society, James C. Leisen, Howard Duncan

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Arthritis, Ancient And Modern: Guidelines For Field Workers, Aidan Cockburn, Howard Duncan, Jeanne M. Riddle

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A Survey Of Joint Disease At The Libben Site, Ottawa County, Ohio, Marc A. Kelley

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Osteoarthritis, Howard Duncan

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Ankylosing Spondylitis, Carlina V. Jimenea

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Gout And Pseudogout, Gilbert B. Bluhm

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