Transactions Of The American Pediatric Society

List of members in each vol.

List of members in each volume.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A CASE OF RHACHISCHISIS. BY T. M. ROTCH, M.D., Boston, Mass. Rhachischisis is one of the principal forms of congenital defects of the spine. It is characterized by a def1ciency of the vertebral arches either complete or partial. The cord is rudimentary and is split open so that the endothelial lining of the central canal is exposed. This may occur in the whole of the cord or in part of it. The condition is of interest pathologically rather than clinically. The following cases of rhachischisis came under my notice at the Infants' Hospital. A girl three days old was admitted to the hospital on February 14, 1900, in the service of Dr. John Dane. The history of the case was that the delivery had been with forceps, that the infant was viable, and that it had taken no food since birth. A physical examination showed the head to be of normal size. The anterior fontanelle was widely open. There was a caput succedaneum on both sides. The face was flattened, the chin was retracted and was held in forced position with the occiput resting on the upper dorsal spine as represented in Fig. I. The front of the neck was bulging. The chest and abdomen were apparently normal. On examining the posterior surface of the infant a cleft was found in the posterior vertebral arches extending from the first dorsal to the third lumbar vertebra, measuring one and a half inches in the middle and narrowing evenly on both sides. The intervening space in its lower part was covered with good skin. Above this in place of the skin there was a parchment like membrane, and an area in the upper part of the cleft one and a half inches long and covered with granulations. No bulging or sense of fluctuation was detected in this cleft. Fig. II. shows this posterior aspect of the infant just described. The ex...

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This book is a centennial volume celebrating the enormous progress made in hematology in the 20th century. It is edited by Marshall Lichtman, a distinguished senior hematologist, past president of the American Society of Hematology, and co-editor of the leading text in the field. Hematology is a compendium, with commentaries, of the most important papers published in the field from 1900-1999. The book will be useful for reference--many of the older papers can no longer be found in most libraries, yet are still referred to in current publications, especially review articles--as well as teaching. The Editor and a team of associate editors have included the most important papers covering eight categories: anemia; phagocytic cells; platelets; coagulation and thrombosis; lymphocytes and immune disorders; transfusion medicine; hematologic malignancies and therapeutics; and laboratory developments. Each paper is accompanied by a 1-2 page commentary explaining its impact, and references to the developments that resulted. Key Features * Contains 86 landmark articles from the last 100 years of research in clinical hematology * Includes expert commentaries discussing the impact of each article * Cites approximately 1000 preceding or subsequent articles of consequence in the commentaries * Includes the English translations of nine articles originally published in other languages * Provides easy access to several papers that may no longer be found in libraries