Medical Memoranda BaLURNT in the legs. The pathological process was confined to vessels supplying the leg muscles and the skin in two cases and to the leg muscles alone in one case. In each case the subsequent course of the disease was benign, in that there has been no evidence of visceral involvement and no clinical deterioration has appeared during the period of follow-up. .t sRj6r ~~* = 4 A ...

A 50-year-old woman was referred from dental clinic to be evaluated for hypersensitivity for articaine. Previously 3 years ago she had urticaria in 10-15 min after administration of a local anaesthetic agent for a dental procedure. She did not know the name of the local anaesthetic agent. For the last 6 years she had been followed with diagnoses of chronic urticaria and angioedema in dermatolog...

17a-hydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one (17aP) hormone is a precursor of other steroid hormones and radioimmunoassay has already been used to measure it, but a simple and rapid "Enzyme Linked Immunosorbant Assay" (ELISA) is described and validated here. A general procedure for prepara-tion of the acetylcholinesterase labelled steroid is described, which is applicable to any steroid. Use of acetyl...