Cerebral palsy, Allego pontine degeneration? sm
Posted By: Sheila on 2008-03-20
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Subject: Cerebral palsy, Allego pontine degeneration? sm
Here is the sentence regarding a dx for a patient with cerebral palsy:
She went through a fairly extensive evaluation there and they have now given her a diagnosis of olligo pontine degeneration with proprioceptive loss and impaired balance.
Any ideas? Thanks!
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Subject: Wallerian degeneration
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http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/12/4718
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21287
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I will now use a lower case. Thanks for bringing this up. I emailed Stedman's and here is their reply.
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Response (Eric Branger) 01/11/2006 11:25 AM
Kim,
Thank you for contacting Stedman's. Please see below the response from one of our researchers, and please let me know if you have any additional questions.
Sincerely,
Eric Branger
Senior Product Manager
Stedman's
The correct spelling would be lowercase. Please see below (I used underscoring for emphasis).
AAMT Book of Style, 2nd edition, page 140, states: "Lowercase disease names except for eponyms forming part of the name. Examples: sickle cell disease, diabetes mellitus, pelvic inflammatory disease, Graves disease, Lyme disease, Parkinson disease, parkinsonism."
AAMT BOS 2e, page 161, states: "Capitalize eponyms but not the common nouns, adjectives, and prefixes that accompany them. Do not capitalize words derived from eponyms. Examples: ligament of Treitz, red Robinson catheter, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Parkinson disease but parkinsonism, Cushing syndrome but cushingoid."
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Page 233, "Most words derived from proper nouns are not capitalized. Follow the first boldface entries in the most recent edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary for nonmedical terms; follow the current edition of Stedman's or Dorland's medical dictionaries for terms used in a medical context. Examples: Addison, addisonian, Mendel, mendelian, Parkinson, parkinsonian."
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