This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (6)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

COLONEL GEORGE H. DONNELLY; MAJOR ROY E. CAMPBELL

AMA Arch Surg. 1954;69(4):533-539.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

WITH REPORTS of possible cures or prolonged remission of periarteritis nodosa with cortisone or corticotropin therapy, the early diagnosis of the disease becomes of greater significance. Either there is an increase in the frequency of the disease, or the increased awareness of the disease is resulting in more frequent diagnoses. Although the collagen diseases remain poorly understood, some progress is being made as the clinically benign forms of the disease are being separated from the severer forms.² This progress may be enhanced by additional case reports of clinical and pathological findings.

The surgeon is interested in this disease from several standpoints. The gastrointestinal tract is involved by this disease in 50 to 56% of the cases.* Hematemesis or melena occur in 18% of the cases. It should, therefore, be considered in the differential diagnosis of other surgical diseases of the abdomen. It is frequently the surgeon who is initially . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MEDICAL CORPS, UNITED STATES ARMY

From the Surgical Service, United States Army Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?