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A retrospective study was done on 49 patients who underwent removal of an intrauterine device (IUD) and laparoscopic sterilization as a combined procedure during a 13-year period at Booth Memorial Medical Center, Flushing, New York. Five patients were given prophylactic antibiotic therapy, one was treated with postoperative antibiotic therapy for an asymptomatic actinomycosis infection of the endometrium, diagnosed on the curettings, and two patients developed postoperative infections requiring antibiotic therapy. Twenty-one patients had endometritis of various degrees diagnosed on the endometrial curettings, but only two developed clinical infections postoperatively. Elimination of those patients receiving prophylactic antibiotics from the study group left 43, of whom 41 (95%) had an uncomplicated postoperative course and did not develop clinical pelvic inflammatory disease even though 15 of them had endometritis diagnosed on curettage. It appears that removal of an IUD at the time of laparoscopic sterilization does not significantly affect the safety or postoperative morbidity of the sterilization procedure.
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PMID:Laparoscopic tubal sterilization combined with removal of an intrauterine contraceptive device. A report of 49 cases. 374 84

"Lumpy jaw" of artiodactyls and macropods, although often considered a manifestation of actinomycosis, is actually an osteomyelitis, perhaps commencing with a dental root abscess or trauma to the jaw. Anaerobes may be cultured from the lesions, and vegetable matter may be impacted in them. It is a chronic disease and difficult to treat. Successful treatment may include draining the abscess, cleaning the cavity with saline and antibiotics, flushing with a combination of hydrogen peroxide-sodium hypochlorite and Betadine, and apicoectomy and endodontic filling when active inflammation has subsided.
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PMID:"Lumpy jaw" in exotic hoof stock: a histopathologic interpretation with a treatment proposal. 1731 55