Joseph Ziskind

Rhabdomyosarcoma involving the left mandible

Abstract A case of rhabdomyosarcoma involving the left mandible is reported. This is a very unusual site for this tumor. Unfortunately, the patient died of a myocardial infarction eleven days following surgery. No evidence of metastasis was found.

Emphysema Studied by Microradioloqy1

This paper concerns a disease which may destroy more lung tissue than tuberculosis and cancer combined. If our findings to date are representative, a high percentage of male patients have the disease to an appreciable degree. We refer to “chronic pulmonary emphysema” as revealed by postmortem radiographic findings. The series upon which our study is based consists of 65 nearly consecutive autopsies on male veterans, ranging in age from twenty-nine to seventy-nine years. About one-third of the subjects were in the age bracket below sixty, with two-thirds sixty or over. Statistical data will be forthcoming when the series has reached larger proportions. Technic Lungs which can be removed intact from the thorax, and the bronchus severed near the carina, are perfused at normal inflation pressure (usually 15 to 20 cm. of water) until dry. After two or three days, when the lung is thoroughly dry, it is radiographed as a whole and then cut with an electric meat-slicing machine into slices of varying thicknesses....

Plasma-cell tumor of the stomach; with report of a case.

Plasma-cell tumors of the stomach are of extremely rare occurrence. As recently as 1943, Hellwig (1) reviewed the literature of the preceding thirty-seven years and found only 127 cases of extramedullary plasmacytoma; of these, 5 involved the gastro-intestinal tract and in only 1 (2) were lesions present in the stomach. Since Hellwigs (1) review, we have found reported 2 cases of plasma-cell tumor of the stomach, and recently we encountered a case of our own. Vasiliu and Popas case (2), cited by Hellwig, occurred in a female, aged 32, who had a five-year history of dyspepsia and anorexia with abdominal discomfort following meals. X-ray examination revealed stasis of barium at the pylorus. At autopsy a tumor was found involving the stomach, intestine, and lymph nodes locally and in the mediastinum. No mention was made of bone marrow involvement. Due to the widespread lesions, the location of the primary tumor in the stomach has to be considered only as a possibility. The two more recent cases were defini...

Mucoepidermoid tumor of palate.

Abstract A mucoepidermoid tumor of the palate has been described. This tumor, which is of a low grade of malignancy, will probably cause no difficulty if it has been completely removed. If not removed entirely, it may tend to recur locally. These tumors, because of their variable behavior pattern, should be considered as being of either a low or high grade of malignancy.

The spatial vectorcardiogram of patients with malignant neoplasms

Abstract This paper is a correlative study of the electrocardiogram and spatial vectorcardiogram with the heart at autopsy in 89 patients with carcinoma. Analysis of the QRSsE loops revealed an increased frequency of narrowed Type-1 loops in the patients with bronchogenic carcinoma. Distortion of the QRSsE loop, such as reported previously for normal aging people, was present in nearly every patient in this series. There was a significant number of patients who demonstrated pathologic evidence of right or left ventricular hypertrophy, but in whom the ventricular hypertrophy was not definitely recognizable from the electrocardiogram or the spatial vectorcardiogram. A number of patients showed a greater influence upon the heart of the stimulus for ventricular hypertrophy, than the stimulus for ventricular atrophy associted with the extreme cachexia of prolonged illness with ultimate death from carcinoma, when both stimuli were existent simultaneously.