Initial experience with the Boyle uterine elevator.

Since 1990, our institution has used the Boyle uterine elevator in 57 abdominal hysterectomies. The device aids in retraction of the uterus and minimizes the use of self-retaining retractors and bowel packing. The uterine elevator also aids in dissection of the bladder and incision of the cardinal and uterosacral ligaments. The mean hospital stay has been reduced to 2.6 days. Postoperative complications are rare. We conclude that this device is a useful adjunct in the performance of abdominal hysterectomy.

Using the Bender-Gestalt test to predict graphomotor dimensions of the Draw-A-Person test.

The investigators examined four correlated aspects of the Bender-Gestalt and the Draw-A-Person tests. Subjects were 41 boys and 14 girls classified as seriously emotionally disturbed or seriously behavior disordered by their school system in southwest Georgia. Each subject's Bender-Gestalt and human figure drawings were placed on a digitizing pad and encoded to provide information relative to the width, height, average point of location on the fourth quadrant abscissa and ordinate of each drawing. The widths of Bender Figures 2 and 8 correlated significantly with the widths of human drawings; the heights of Figures A, 5, and 7 were significantly correlated with the heights of the human drawings. Bender Figure 1 was significantly correlated with average points of location on the abscissa of human figure drawings (distance from the left margin of the page), but correlations between the average points of location from the top of the page were nonsignificant. Comparison of these results with data from other samples might refine diagnosis.