OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to compare efficacy, early postoperative morbidity and patient comfort of two laser wavelengths and fibre types in treatment of great saphenous vein (GSV) incompetence resulting in varicosities of the lower limb. DESIGN Prospective randomised clinical trial. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty patients (106 limbs) were randomised into two groups. They were treate...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis poses a great challenge, especially in children. The response of BCG Test may be different in previously vaccinated children and needs to be considered before interpreting positivity for TB. This study has been carried out to determine the pattern of BCG reaction comparing previously vaccinated with non-vaccinated children. METHODS The study was conducted in the health...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the efficacy and safety of recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis ESAT-6 protein for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). MATERIAL AND METHODS A phase II trial was performed in 158 patients with pulmonary TB (145 initially-treated and 13 re-treated) and 133 healthy subjects. Skin testing was carried out by injecting purified protein derivative (PP...

In the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital for December, 1898, there appeared an article by B. R. Schenck " On Refractory Subcutaneous Abscesses caused by a Fungns possibly related to the Sporotrieha." "The primary point of infection was on the index finger, whence it extended up the radial side of the arm, following the lymph channels, and giving rise to several circumscribed indurations, w...

The above is not difficult to understand when it is remembered how frequent and progressive tubercle of the lungs is in Rangoon, and how futile any treatment (including the open air treatment) is in its arrest. Excluding the evidently tubercular cases, a majority of other enlarged chronically inflamed lymphatic glands remains. They appear to be of syphilitic origin. While plenty of stress is la...

In our country, there have been many reports on the skin test of whooping cough by agglutinogenl and its reliability was discussed by Matsumura3 and the present authors2,4. In this report, the reliability of this skin test and the relationship between the skin reaction and the susceptibility to whooping cough are examined from the results of the 3 years field study. The agglutinogen was, as des...

decisions. Because severity scorings differed mainly in diverse estimations of the involved area and induration of the lesions, one may speculate that the divergence might have resulted from the inability of the teledermatologists to see the entire body and to palpate the lesions, or it might have resulted from some flaws of the PASI scoring system for which an interrater variability of up to 8...