LONDON HOSPITAL. Cases of Exostosis

[Brompton Hospital, London].

Kveim tests were done in forty-eight patients with Crohn's disease. Of forty-five with definite or probable Crohn's disease, twenty-three had a positive Kveim test. This finding could be explained: (1) By cross-reactivity between sarcoidosis and Crohn's disease antigens; (2) By an aetiological agent common to the two diseases, or (3) By a property of the Kveim test material used in testing.

Brompton Hospital, London

Kveim tests were done in forty-eight patients with Crohn's disease. Of forty-five with definite or probable Crohn's disease, twenty-three had a positive Kveim test. This finding could be explained: (1) By cross-reactivity between sarcoidosis and Crohn's disease antigens; (2) By an aetiological agent common to the two diseases, or (3) By a property of the Kveim test material used in testing.

Royal Brompton Hospital, London.

Royal Brompton Hospital locally known as The Brompton, can trace its origins back to the 1840s. As a tuberculosis and respiratory hospital, it pioneered treatment in the field but it was only in the late 1940s that cardiac care was explored. Today, from its West London site in Chelsea, it is still renowned for its respiratory work but throughout the second part of the 20th century, and into the...

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