Alfred Hurwitz

Mycotic aneurysm of the brachial artery after cure of bacterial endocarditis; successful treatment by surgical excision.

THE occurrence of mycotic aneurysm secondary to bacterial endocarditis is comparatively rare. In 1923 Stengel and Wolferth1 reviewed 217 cases, 187 of which had associated bacterial endocarditis. T...

Cervical osteomyelitis and urinary-tract infection caused by Escherichia coli.

CERVICAL osteomyelitis secondary to urinary-tract infection with Escherichia coli is rare. Kusunoki1 was able to find reports of only 6 cases of osteomyelitis as a complication of urinary-tract inf...

Ureteroileostomy, an efficacious method of urinary diversion; report of six cases.

THE multiplicity of surgical procedures proposed1 to divert the urinary stream after total cystectomy shows that there has been no satisfactory solution to the major problems of obstruction, infect...