Relaxin and the radiolucent fissure in the symphysis pubis during pregnancy: the gas phenomenon.

A vertical radiolucent fissure is frequently seen in the symphysis pubis on x-ray pelvimetry studies. This phenomenon is illustrated and discussed. It appears to be a parameter of targeted relaxin softening and stretching of the symphysis.

Pulmonary blebs and bullae in alcoholics: a possible alcoholic-specific lung phenomenon.

Chest x-ray films of 200 unselected severely alcoholic patients were studied in a search for a possible alcohol-lung syndrome. Fourteen instances of pulmonary blebs and bullae were encountered, an incidence substantially higher than usual. Functional airway obstruction has been previously identified in the lungs of alcoholics, and the present findings might be a radiologic manifestation of the same process. While the pathogenesis of blebs and bullae is uncertain, the phenomena should be included in the spectrum of respiratory pathology encountered on chest films of alcoholic patients.

Mondor's disease in the breast.

Mondor's disease is thrombophlebitis of a vein on the anterolateral thoracoabdominal wall. When it involves the breast it may cause undue apprehension. The characteristic appearance is described and illustrated. A mammogram is shown.

Inoperable gastric lymphosarcoma mistaken for carcinoma: response to radiation with twenty-year survival to date.

With suitable treatment, the potential for long survival with gastric lymphoma is well-documented. However, since these tumors constitute only about 1-3% of gastric malignancies, they may occur only rarely in a particular radiologist's experience. The present report of a remarkable therapeutic response is a reminder that the possibility of lymphosarcoma should be included in the differential diagnosis of every gastric neoplasm.

[Breast cancer in men]. / Carcinoma de la mama en el hombre.

Carcinoma of the breast is relatively uncommon in men. Represents somewhere between 0.9 to 1.5 of all tumors of the breast. Most patients are within the 7th to 8th decade of life. The most common symptoms at the time of presentation are a tumor mass in either breast, ulceration of the nipple or nipple retraction or fixation of the skin. Extension to the axiliar nodes takes place early in the course of the disease. The presence of nipple discharge should be considered expression of carcinoma of the breast unless otherwise proven. The final diagnosis is established by biopsy. The most common form of carcinoma of the breast is the ductal carcinoma. The surgical management takes basically that followed in carcinoma of the breast in the female patient. Also orquiectomy has been used which is equivalent to ovariectomy in woman. In the presence of metastasis both estrogens and androgens have been used. Hypophysectomy and post-op radiation therapy has been used. Most recently chemotherapy has been widely used in those cases with widespread metastasis. However, in spite of all these efforts carcinoma of the breast in the male still carries a very serious prognosis. We present our experience in 16 cases.

Mammary malignancy in the male.

Mammary carcinoma in the male, a relatively uncommon disease, represents about 0.9 to 1.5 percent of all breast cancers. (1,2) The authors reviewed 16 cases of male breast cancer seen in a 30-year period at the State University of New York, Kings County Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn, and the North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset. Epidemiology, etiology, demography, signs and symptoms, management, and prognosis are discussed. A review of pertinent literature is presented.