Cysticercosis—rare but important

Not significant but important.

Armstrong and colleagues report the result of a large Phase IIb randomized trial evaluating the effectiveness of a preparation of the Bowman Birk Inhibitor compared with an oral placebo in reversing the extent of oral leukoplakia as measured visually by pathology or a battery of intermediate end points. In this editorial, we review the report of this negative clinical trials result to highlight...

Blind loop: rare but important surgical complication

BACKGROUND Surgical complications worldwide are dreaded by both patients and physicians alike. They represent significant and serious morbidity and mortality, and contribute substantially to increased costs of healthcare. CASE PRESENTATION Our Case Report describes a 65yo Caucasian man with an extensive operative history for Crohn's disease, including 4 laparotomies with small bowel resection...

Abdominal incision closure: small but important bites.

www.thelancet.com Published online July 16, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60687-0 1 In The Lancet, Eva Deerenberg and colleagues’ prospective, multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled STITCH trial shows that the rate of incisional hernia is lower with small tissue bites than with large bites. This fi nding contradicts what surgeons have thought and been taught for many de...

Drug induced chest pain-rare but important.

Pericarditis, usually viral in origin, is an infrequent cause of chest pain. Pericarditis due to drug allergy is even less frequent and is thus rarely considered in the differential diagnosis. A case is reported of a woman who presented with severe chest pain, caused by minocycline induced pericarditis. Such allergy may be more common than reported. It is suggested that drug induced pericarditi...

GUEST COMMENTARIES Prokaryotic Glycoproteins: Unexplored but Important