Zweite Antwort an Hrn. Kayser

Manfred Kayser

restaurants. Japan consumes about 80 per cent of Pacific and Atlantic bluefin tuna. The country has been accused of stifling efforts to enhance protection of the tuna stocks. In negotiations last year, a bid by Monaco, backed by several other European countries, to introduce a ban on commercial fishing of Atlantic bluefin tuna failed because of perceived support from several smaller nations for...

Unilateral Kayser-Fleischer ring.

A patient is presented who had unrecognised Wilson's disease. He had developed a clinically obvious Kayser-Fleischer ring in only one eye. The eye without the corneal ring had been injured in childhood and had a low intraocular pressure. Possible mechanisms for formation of a Kayser-Fleischer ring are reviewed and the lack of Kayser-Fleischer ring in this case is discussed.

Medizin, Naturwissenschaft, Technik und das Zweite Kaiserreich

GERALD LEMAINE, ROY MACLEOD, MICHAEL MULKAY and PETER WEINGART (editors), Perspectives on the emergence of scientific disciplines, The Hague and Paris, Mouton, (West Berlin, W. de Gruyter), 1976, 8vo, pp. xi, 281, DM.50.00. The disciplines represented in the twelve essays which comprise this book include agricultural chemistry, thermodynamics, physical chemistry, biophysics, x-ray protein cryst...

Jürgen Kayser & Gisela Erdmann Report

Kayser-Fleischer ring. A pathological study.

Although the brownish area at the corneal periphery in the region ofDescemet's membrane was first described by Kayser (I902), and Fleischer (I9I2) recognized it as a part of Wilson's disease (hepato-lenticular degeneration), there have been no previous reports in the ophthalmic literature of the United Kingdom of a pathological study of the lesion which is now recognized as a pathognomonic find...