Cushing′s ulcer: Further reflections

Further reflections on TREC

The paper reviews the TREC Programme up to TREC-6 (1997), considering the test results, the substantive ®ndings for IR that follow and the lessons TREC o€ers for IR evaluation. The paper focuses on the ad hoc retrieval task, with discussion of other test tracks as appropriate. The paper summarises the structure of the TREC work and analyses the experimental data in some detail. The analysis of ...

Further Reflections on the Guillotine

Mortality in Cushings Disease

The causes of premature death in untreated Cushing’s syndrome are vascular disease (myocardial infarction/stroke), uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and complications and infections. Long-term mortality outcome studies on pituitary-dependent Cushing’s disease (CD) are limited to six studies in the English language literature. This paper reviews these studies on CD, other causes of Cushing’s syndro...

Mortality in Cushings Disease

The causes of premature death in untreated Cushing’s syndrome are vascular disease (myocardial infarction/stroke), uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and complications and infections. Long-term mortality outcome studies on pituitary-dependent Cushing’s disease (CD) are limited to six studies in the English language literature. This paper reviews these studies on CD, other causes of Cushing’s syndro...

Mortality in Cushings Disease

The causes of premature death in untreated Cushing’s syndrome are vascular disease (myocardial infarction/stroke), uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and complications and infections. Long-term mortality outcome studies on pituitary-dependent Cushing’s disease (CD) are limited to six studies in the English language literature. This paper reviews these studies on CD, other causes of Cushing’s syndro...