the right upper arm, lower back, left thigh, and both Pyoderma gangrenosum is an uncommon nonankles. Five days earlier rHuEpo has been administered contagious condition of unknown aetiology resembling by s.c. injection on the lateral aspect of the right upper a Shwartzman-like hypersensitivity reaction. It typicarm. One day after injection, high fever and multiple ally begins as a pustule and p...

Dear Editor-in-Chief, Many techniques have been described for the treatment of cranial cruciate ligament rupture in dogs. The most commonly used of the corrective osteotomies are: tibial plateau levelling osteotomy, tibial tuberosity advancement (TTA), and more recently the Maquet technique has been described (1). Complications from TTA can be divided into major and minor complications. Major c...

B reast cancer is the most common invasive cancer diagnosed in women. Of every 8 women, 1 woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. In 2013, more than 230 000 women were diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States alone, resulting in nearly 40 000 deaths. Breast cancer can also occur in men, although the incidence is much lower, with a total of 2240 men diagnosed in 2013 (acc...

tomy in infancy and the low expiratory flows which persist after lobectomy for congenital lobar emphysema, 15 subjects with this history were studied at age 8-30 yr. Total lung capacity was normal in all, but higher values (P < 0.05) were observed in nine subjects with upper lobectomy than in five subjects with right middle lobectomy. Ratio of residual volume to total lung capacity was correlat...

the cavity was illuminated with a 652-nm laser light and a fluence of 10 J/cm 2 , except for the shielded zone. The large quantity of fluid drained postoperatively gave an indication of the effect of phototherapy on the pleural cavity walls. Slowing of esophageal motor activity was observed in all three cases. Postoperative electrotherapy was performed in the first two patients on the thoracoto...

A 43-year-old champion New Zealand athlete presented acutely with the onset of right flank pain. He gave a previous history of ‘exercise-induced’ arrhythmia and vertebral degeneration, which were attributed to a lifetime of sporting activity. Only the day before, he had competed in a gruelling triathlon race consisting of a 11.5 km swim, a 25 km cycle and a 10 km run in summer temperatures reac...

Correspondence It would appear that four bodies are concerned , the driver, the public, the insurance companies, and the doctors. The first three might be taken together, for I understand that the insurance companies are no more concerned with the elderly driver as an insurance risk than with anyone else; in fact if the amount of premium required is a criterion he is considered to be less of a ...

Letters to the Editor will be published, if suitable, as space permits. They should not exceed 1,000 words (typed double-spaced) in length and may be subject to editing or abridgment. Since Owren's first description in 1947, 1 there have been several studies of congenital factor V deficiency associated with hemor-rhagic tendencies. This deficiency has also been associated six times with thrombo...

Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (PTENs) are a heterogeneous group of tumours that develop from neuroendocrine cells of the pancreas [1]. Pancreatic neu-roendocrine tumours comprise a rare group of pancre-atic tumours and represent about 1–2% of all tumours developing within this organ [2]. The potential of neu-roendocrine cells to produce and secrete peptides and/ or biogenic amines affecting...

two cases of recurrent ulcer within a few months of H.S.V. in a small series, and 22% of Kronborg and Madsen's (1975) 50 patients developed recurrent ulceration within four years of H.S.V. The early postoperative insulin test, however, showed that 58% of Kronborg and Madsen's patients and 28% of those of Wastell et al., had incomplete vagotomy. Since there is a good correlation between insulin ...