BACKGROUND/AIMS Although normal endoscopic findings are, as a rule, part of the diagnosis of microscopic colitis, sev-eral cases of macroscopic lesions (MLs) have been reported in collagenous colitis, but hardly in lymphocytic colitis (LC). The aim of this study was to investigate the endoscopic, clini-cal, and histopathologic features of LC with MLs. METHODS A total of 14 patients with LC wh...

An authoritative and well researched report from two of the UK's most influential national bodies, the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) and the Audit Commission, has already been influential in setting the agenda for cancer care in England and Wales [1]. This service review, entitled NHS Cancer Care in England and Wales, is aimed at the general public as well as those with a specialist i...

cemento-ossifying fibroma (cof) is a rare benign fibro-osseous tumor. the radiographic and clini cal features of this lesion are unpredictable and variable. in this report, the patient was a 12-year old girl with a painless swelling which demon strated an opaque lesion with radiolucent zone to involve left posterior portion of the mandible on panoramic radiography. the radiographic manife stati...

This issue of Pain Medicine is devoted to examining ethical challenges posed by the practice and research of pain. We are indebted to our colleagues from New York University Medical Center—Dr. Allen Lebovits, who so capably guided the papers in this issue, and Dr. Michel Dubois, Editor of the Ethics Forum, for their leadership in bringing these matters before us. Ethics affect our daily clinica...

Editorial Honestly, who among us was properly academically trained to conduct qualitative research? Who can spontaneously cite a qualitative study of autism, or would say his or her favorite study of autism is a qualitative one? Who thinks qualitative research is as valuable as quantitative research? Without either qualitative or quantitative evidence for it, only an n = 1 personal experience, ...

P SY CHOSTIMU LANTS, par ticu larly ampheta mine, be came avail able in Amer ica for clini cal use in 1937, and since then have been widely prescribed. More re cently, their bene fi cial ef fects have been over shad owed by the rec og ni tion of a sig nifi cant abuse po ten tial. Nev er the less, the mili tary serv ices, par ticu larly the Air Force, have rec og nized the value of psy chostimu ...

Following the demonstration of the effective ness of triethyleneimino-s-triazine (TEM) in the treatment of experimental tumors and of its clini cal value in the management of certain types of malignant disease, a series of ethyleneimino deriv atives was synthesized. An evaluation of their carcinostatic effects revealed that triethylenephosphoramide (TEPA), an ethyleneimine-substituted phosphori...

Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy is a neuro-ophthalmological entity characterized by acute or subacute bilateral, not simultaneous visual loss with centro cekal scotoma and occasional further visual improvement. This rare ophthalmological disease can be accompanied with dyschromatopsia. It is associated with a matrilineal inheritance pattern. Its diagnosis used to be solely clini¬cal, aided ...

Current records of marine myxozoans from the coast of Africa are limited to the descriptions of 52 species from mostly Senegal, with a few from Tunisia and southern Africa. Between 1998 and 2000 several intertidal fishes from the southern Cape coast of South Africa were examined for the presence of myxozoan infections. Three new species, Ceratomyxa dehoopi sp. n., C. cottoidii sp. n. and C. hon...