Annals of Internal Medicine

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15 August 1992, Vol. 117. No. 4

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Conferences

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research: Definition and Medical Outcome Assessment FREE

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Ann Schluederberg, ScD; Stephen E. Straus, MD; Phillip Peterson, MD; Susan Blumenthal, MD; Anthony L. Komaroff, MD; Susan B. Spring, PhD; Alan Landay, MD; and Dedra Buchwald, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):325-331. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-325

Medicine and Public Policy

Variable Mortality Rates among Dialysis Treatment Centers

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William M. McClellan, MD, MPH; W. Dana Flanders, MD, DSc; and Robert A. Gutman, MD

Topics: hemodialysis, dialysis procedure, mortality

Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):332-336. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-332

Editorials

Retinoid Therapy for Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia: A Coming of Age for the Differentiation Therapy of Malignancy

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David R. Parkinson, MD; and Malcolm A. Smith, MD, PhD

Topics: cancer, acute promyelocytic leukemia, retinoids

Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):338-340. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-338

A New Commission Report on Medical Education

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Robert Q. Marston, MD; and Suzanne W. Fletcher, MD

Topics: education, medical

Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):340-341. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-340

On Being a Doctor

Ode to Joy

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Mark S. Litwin, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):337. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-337

Letters

The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Controversy

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William C. Reeves, MD, MSPH; Philip E. Pellett, PhD; and Howard Gary Jr., PhD

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Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):343-344. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-343

Serum Cytokines and the Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome

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Daniel J. Clauw, MD; Leila H. Zackrison, MD; and Paul Katz, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):344-345. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-344

Yogurt for Candidal Vaginitis

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Scott Podolsky; and Alfred I. Tauber, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):345-346. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-345

Diagnostic Workup of AIDS-associated Diarrhea

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Gabor P. Kandel, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):346-347. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-346

AIDS in Africa

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Omoigui Nowa, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):347-348. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-347

The Ethos of Doctors and Corporations

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Steven D. Pearson, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):348. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-348_1

AIDS in Belle Glade

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H. J. Roberts, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):348-349. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-348_2

Correction: SI Units

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Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):349. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-349

Ad Libitum

Not Indigestion

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Eric L. Dyer, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):342. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-342

Brief Reports

An Outbreak of Tuberculosis among Hospital Personnel Caring for a Patient with a Skin Ulcer

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Mark W. Frampton, MD

Topics: disease outbreaks, personnel, hospital, skin ulcer, tuberculosis

Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):312-313. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-312

Articles

Comparison of Cefuroxime Axetil and Doxycycline in the Treatment of Early Lyme Disease

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Robert B. Nadelman, MD; Steven W. Luger, MD; Elliot Frank, MD; Michael Wisniewski, PhD; Jeffrey J. Collins, PhD; and Gary P. Wormser, MD

Topics: lyme disease, doxycycline, cefuroxime axetil

Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):273-280. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-273

Lyme Disease Associated with Fibromyalgia

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Hal Dinerman, MD; and Allen C. Steere, MD

Topics: lyme disease, fibromyalgia

Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):281-285. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-281

Long-Term Bone Loss in Men: Effects of Genetic and Environmental Factors

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Charles W. Slemenda, DrPH; Joe C. Christian, MD; Terry Reed, PhD; Teresa K. Reister, MS; Christopher J. Williams, PhD; and C. Conrad Johnston Jr., MD

Topics: environmental factors, genetics, osteopenia

Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):286-291. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-286

The "Retinoic Acid Syndrome" in Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

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Stanley R. Frankel, MD; Anna Eardley, BS; Gregory Lauwers, MD; Mark Weiss, MD; and Raymond P. Warrell Jr., MD

Topics: acute promyelocytic leukemia, retinoic acid syndrome

Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):292-296. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-292

Treatment of Asymptomatic Clostridium difficile Carriers (Fecal Excretors) with Vancomycin or Metronidazole: A Randomized, Placebo-controlled Trial

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Stuart Johnson, MD; Scott R. Homann, MD; Kristine M. Bettin, BS; Judith N. Quick, BA; Connie R. Clabots, MT; Lance R. Peterson, MD; and Dale N. Gerding, MD

Topics: vancomycin, feces, metronidazole, clostridium difficile (bacteria)

Ann Intern Med. 1992;117(4):297-302. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-297

Antiphospholipid Thrombosis: Clinical Course after the First Thrombotic Event in 70 Patients