https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38295 2026-04-14T22:13:49Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20216 Title: The unconscious patient : a practical approach Abstract: Coma is an emergency situation representing either a primary insult to the brain tissues or announcing an underlying systemic disorder. 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20215 Title: Leucoderma Acquisitun Centrifugum (Sutton's Halo Naevus) : a case report Abstract: P.e. (SLH. No.: 240480), a 17-year old youth from Qormi, presented in October 1984 with a pigmented papule on the chest wall, which developed an area of depigmentation around it (Fig. 1). 1986-03-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20214 Title: Septicaemia Abstract: The presence of bacteria in the blood causes bacteraemia, septicaemia and pyaemia. In bacteraemia, bacteria are present in the blood in relatively small numbers, but do not multiply significantly, while in septicaemia and pyaemia bacteria of high pathogenicity are present and also multiply in the blood. Bacteraemia subsides by itself when the resistance of the patient is more powerful than the causative organism. But sometimes the bacteria may settle in the various parts of the body and produce lesions e.g.: suppurative meningitis, suppurative arthritis and osteomyelitis. Septicaemia is the presence and multiplication of bacteria, in the blood, of high pathogenicity causing symptoms e.g. pyogenic cocci, with profound toxaemia in which the bacteria have overwhelmed the host defence. 1986-03-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20213 Title: Effects of certain diseases and drugs on dental-oral tissues Abstract: The mouth and teeth are the first functioning part of the gastro-intestinal tract. Oral tissues are sensitive to various conditions, diseases and drugs and liable to various symptoms. The hallmark among other symptoms of pernicious anaemia, leukaemias, allergy, acute infection, vitamin deficiences, syphilis, tuberculosis, metallic and other poisonings may be seen here. The sharp jerky movements of the tongue in chorea are among its symptoms. Drug sensitivity and poisoning may also bring characteristic lesions and changes in colour in oral tissues - factors sometimes taken into consideration in forensic medicine. 1986-03-01T00:00:00Z