20.500.12592/2kdsvz
Journal of the Indian Medical Association December 1953
1953
Summary
(3) The severance of the sympathetic connection to the suprarenal reduces the formation and maintenance of its sudanophilic granules which help the formation of hypertensin. [...] It will be evident on analysis of these data that the tubules of the seriously disorganised kidneys of this patient tried to maintain the constancy of the electrolyte coposition of the body fluids by eliminating larger amounts of salt and water and by actively secreting potassium when the plasma concentration of this cation reached a dangerously high level. [...] Puffiness of the face oedema of legs and feet and ascites (abdominal girth 36) were present and the neck veins were distended up to the angle of the jaw. [...] They have reported II cases of erythroplasia all in Jews not only affecting the mucous membrane of the glans penis but also the glabrous skin of the scrotum lower part of the abdomen and umbilical region. [...] They have reported II cases of erythroplasia all in Jews not only affecting the mucous membrane of the glans penis but also the glabrous skin of the scrotum lower part of the abdomen and umbilical region.
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