Homans? *no apostrophe* per BOS 2nd edition

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      • named after John Homans..... - small message
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I'm getting way too confused on this as I find all three when I look them up.  I have a transcription work book that says "Homans."  Can someone please post which is correct or the most correct?

Thank you so very much!

Just thought I would pass on some information recently sent to me.

AAMT BOS  (Book of Style), 2nd edition

periods
Do not use periods within or at the end of most abbreviations, including acronyms, abbreviated units of measure, and brief forms. Use a period at the end of abbreviated English units of measure if they may be misread without the period. Better still, write out most English units of measure, thereby avoiding this use of a period at the end of an abbreviation.

wbc
WBC
mg
exam
prep
inch preferred to in. (Do not use in meaning inch without a period.)

However, use periods in lowercase drug-related abbreviations.
b.i.d.
q.4 h. = note it is "q.4" and then a space before the "h."
p.o.
p.r.n.

If a sentence terminates with an abbreviation that requires a period, do not add another period.
He takes Valium 5 mg q.a.m.
not He takes Valium 5 mg q.a.m..

plurals
Use a lowercase s without an apostrophe to form the plural of capitalized abbreviations, acronyms, and brief forms.
EEGs
PVCs
CABGs
exams

Use 's to form the plural of lowercase abbreviations.
rbc's
Use 's to form the plural of single-letter abbreviations.
X's

Hyphens and adjectives

15-year-old boy
The patient is a 33-year-old.
2-year 5-month-old child (note no comma in this)
5-1/2-year-old girl
1-month course
.38-caliber pistol - note no leading zero here - see below
two-thirds full
one-half normal saline
half-normal saline
She was panic-stricken
20-pack-year history
self-medicated
shell-like
 
For quantities less than 1, place a zero before the decimal point, except when the number could never equal 1 (e.g., in bullet calibers and in certain statistical expressions such as correlation coefficients and statistical probability).
0.75 mg
.22-caliber rifle

I'd stick with the national standard for clarity's sake unless instructed to stringently follow BOS.  There is staging that is very involved and would look convoluted without spacing in my opinion; i.e, pT2a pN3 MX, etc.

... scored in the low average range. Non-verbal problem solving was low average.

Anyone know?

Also known as:
Crohn's colitis
Crohn-Lesniowsky disease
Crohn-Lesniowsky syndrome
Enteritis regionalis Crohn
Morbus Crohn

Synonyms:
Enteritis regionalis, ileitis terminalis, regional enteritis, regional ileitis, chronic granulomatous enterocolitis, segmental enteritis, segmental ileitis, terminal ileitis.

Associated persons:
Burrill Bernard Crohn

Antoni Lesniowski


Description:
A subacute and chronic inflammatory disease with symptoms variable according to anatomic location and amount of involvement. It was originally believed to be limited to the terminal ileum, but subsequently recognized as involving other parts of the intestine, especially the distal ileum, colon, and anorectal region. Abdominal pain and cramps may indicate narrowing of the lumen and partial obstruction of the intestine. Associated with abscesses and fistulas. Etiology unknown. Slight prevalence in males, Jewish people most frequently affected. Onset at any age; average 25 years.

The first reported case of granulomatous enterocolitis is ascribed to Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), who discussed the clinical course in a 20 year old man with a protracted, sometimes bloody diarrhoea and colic pains. The patient died from a perforation of the terminal ileum.

Another case was described in Sweden by John Berg at the Serafimerlasarettet in Stockholm in 1898 (John Wilhelm Berg, 1851-1916?) and yet another by Antoni Lesniowsky from Warsaw in 1904. At the 1913 meeting of the British Medical Association, the Scottish physician T. Kennedy Dalziel in a lecture reported nine cases of disseminated thickening of, in most cases, the distal small intestine but in some cases also of the right colon.

The American clinician and pathologist Eli Moschowitz (1879-1964) and A. O. Wilensky of the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in 1923 published a work titled "Non-specific granulomata of the intestine". They described a case with non-specific intestinal granulomas, thickening of the distal ileum, as well as an intestine to skin fistula.

At a meeting of the American Medical Association in New Orleans on May 13, 1932, Burrill Bernard Crohn, Leon Ginzburg, and Gordon Oppenheimer delivered a lecture titled "Terminal ileitis: A new clinical entity". They reported 14 cases of a granulomatous inflammation of the distal ileum. J. A. Bargen, in a contribution protested the designation "terminal" ileitis. He maintained that, as most of the patients had survived, the term "terminal" was inappropriate. He suggested that the disease instead be termed "regional ileitis". Crohn and his associates accepted this view and, when the work was published later that year, the article was titled “Regional ileitis; a pathologic and clinical entity". Of the three original authors Ginsburg and Oppenheimer were the most experienced, but Crohn's name, for "alphabetic reasons", appeared the first on the publication.

This was the first time this condition was reported i a larger, widespread journal, and the article thus received a lot of attention. During the following years a multitude of descriptions, of single cases or series of cases, were published. It was soon obvious that the disease did not only affect the distal ileum, but also other parts of the gastro-intestinal tract.

Bibliography:

• A. Lesniowski.
  Przyczynek do chirurgii kiszek.
  Medycyna, Warsaw, 1903, 31: 460-464, 483-489, 514-518.
  
  
  
• B. B. Crohn, L. Ginzburg, G. D. Oppenheimer:
  Regional ileitis; a pathologic and clinical entity.
  Journal of the American Medical Association; Chicago, 1932, 99: 1323-1329.

I'm confused regarding using an apostrophe for abbreviations that are plural like cc's or MI's.  I thought the apostrophe was used to show posession, but abbreviations just don't seem to look right without the apostrophe.  Anyone know which is correct? (ccs/cc's or MIs/MI's).

Thanks!