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Mucocele/diagnóstico , Doenças da Língua/diagnóstico , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Feminino , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mucocele/diagnóstico por imagem , Intensificação de Imagem Radiográfica , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X , Doenças da Língua/diagnóstico por imagemRESUMO
OBJECTIVES: To explore the relationship between disability and physical dependence handicap, and the mediating effect of personal (demographic) and environmental factors as modeled by the International Classification of Impairments, Disability, and Handicaps. METHODS: Data on people with arthritis-associated disabilities were abstracted from a national population survey (n = 16,017). A hierarchical physical dependence variable was formulated. Nominal logistical regression was used to determine predictors of physical dependence related to specific disability, personal characteristics, and environmental adaptation variables. RESULTS: The risk of physical dependence only increased substantially at age > or = 75 years. Specific types of physical disability differentially predicted different levels of physical dependence. The major predictor of physical dependence was disability alone and in conjunction with environmental factors. CONCLUSIONS: There appears to be a specific and ordered relationship between the level of physical dependence and various types of physical disabilities. The findings could have implications for therapeutic intervention and health status measures.
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Atividades Cotidianas , Artrite/classificação , Artrite/fisiopatologia , Pessoas com Deficiência/classificação , Pessoas com Deficiência/estatística & dados numéricos , Meio Social , Adolescente , Adulto , Fatores Etários , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Artrite/psicologia , Canadá , Avaliação da Deficiência , Feminino , Nível de Saúde , Humanos , Modelos Logísticos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Fatores de Risco , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: A survey of clients seen by a community-based arthritis therapy service was conducted to investigate how characteristics of clients might provide information to assist in the development of guidelines for services delivered in the home versus in a community-based ambulatory setting. METHODS: Clients completed a self-administered questionnaire, which included the Health Assessment Questionnaire, and a mobility handicap measure. Two indicator variables selected as criteria for suitability for ambulatory therapy were the therapists' rating of client suitability and the clients' report of going out more than once weekly. RESULTS: Based on these indicator variables, 60-76% of clients currently receiving home therapy by this service could potentially receive services in a community-based ambulatory setting. CONCLUSION: The results demonstrate the usefulness of considering client characteristics when deciding whether clients need to be seen at home. This study emphasizes the need to determine the most efficient and effective methods of providing services to people in the community with chronic conditions.
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Assistência Ambulatorial , Artrite/terapia , Serviços de Assistência Domiciliar , Seleção de Pacientes , Atividades Cotidianas , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Pessoas com Deficiência , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Guias de Prática Clínica como Assunto , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
Ten refugee children from an extended family were diagnosed with active tuberculosis. The family had recently arrived in Scarborough from Somalia. Mantoux skin testing was organized by the local health department for students in the two schools the children attended. An eleventh active case was found on screening. The reactivity rate for children tested once was 1.2% for Canadian-born students, and 14.6% for foreign-born students. Reactivity rates of students tested once were not significantly higher than those in comparison schools. Repeat skin testing of non-reactors revealed a conversion rate of 4.4%. This rate may be an overestimate as a result of the booster phenomenon. Increased risk of testing positive was associated with a history of BCG and being foreign-born in all schools. As rates of tuberculin reactivity have greatly increased in Scarborough schools since the early 1980s, it is recommended that health departments screen foreign-born students for tuberculosis upon entrance to school.
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Vacina BCG , Busca de Comunicante/métodos , Programas de Rastreamento/métodos , Refugiados , Serviços de Saúde Escolar , Tuberculose Pulmonar/prevenção & controle , Criança , Estudos Transversais , Feminino , Humanos , Ontário/epidemiologia , Prevalência , Conglomerados Espaço-Temporais , Teste Tuberculínico , Tuberculose Pulmonar/diagnóstico , Tuberculose Pulmonar/epidemiologiaRESUMO
We studied four cases in which the differentiation between a noncalcified suprasellar aneurysm and tuberculum meningioma, and a calcified suprasellar aneurysm and craniopharyngioma, could not be established by computed tomography scan alone. Cerebral angiography clearly showed both aneurysms.
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Neoplasias Encefálicas/diagnóstico , Angiografia Cerebral , Aneurisma Intracraniano/diagnóstico , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X , Idoso , Neoplasias Encefálicas/cirurgia , Calcinose/diagnóstico , Craniofaringioma/diagnóstico , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Feminino , Humanos , Aneurisma Intracraniano/cirurgia , Neoplasias Meníngeas/diagnóstico , Meningioma/diagnóstico , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Sela TúrcicaRESUMO
Jugular venography done to evaluate abnormalities at the base of the skull demonstrated three distinctly different patterns depending on whether there is occlusion, invasion, or growth with in the internal jugular vein. Improper technique results in a lack of intracranial dural sinus filling which may masquerade as venous occlusion. This problem is avoided by adequate neck compression along with proper volume and rate of delivery of contrast. Radiographically, an abnormal jugular vein at the base of the skull will show a concave defect in true occlusion, constriction or invasion of the vein by tumor, or tumor growth within the vein.
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Veias Jugulares/diagnóstico por imagem , Fraturas Cranianas/diagnóstico por imagem , Neoplasias Cranianas/diagnóstico por imagem , Crânio/diagnóstico por imagem , Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Métodos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Radiografia , Ferimentos por Arma de Fogo/diagnóstico por imagemRESUMO
Three patients with cystic tumors of the cervical spinal cord were evaluated with percutaneous cord puncture and myelocystography. This procedure gives relief of symptoms and permits delineation of the extent and character of the cystic mass.
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Astrocitoma/diagnóstico por imagem , Ependimoma/diagnóstico por imagem , Glioma/diagnóstico por imagem , Mielografia , Neoplasias da Medula Espinal/diagnóstico por imagem , Punção Espinal , Adulto , Ar , Astrocitoma/líquido cefalorraquidiano , Criança , Cistos/diagnóstico por imagem , Ependimoma/líquido cefalorraquidiano , Feminino , Glioma/líquido cefalorraquidiano , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Doenças da Medula Espinal/diagnóstico por imagem , Neoplasias da Medula Espinal/líquido cefalorraquidiano , Neoplasias da Medula Espinal/terapia , Punção Espinal/métodosRESUMO
The authors report a unique case of ectopic intracranial pituitary adenoma, associated clinically with generalized seizures and aggressive behavior. The lesion presumably arose from cells in the pars tuberalis and did not involve the sella turcica.