OBJECTIVES To determine the disease course of Dutch patients with mycosis fungoides and to define factors related to disease progression and survival. DESIGN A multicenter, 13-year, retrospective cohort analysis. SETTING Eight dermatology departments collaborating in the Dutch Cutaneous Lymphoma Group. PATIENTS Three hundred nine patients with mycosis fungoides registered between October ...

BACKGROUND Many patients with chronic obstructive lung disease show increased airways responsiveness to histamine. We investigated the hypothesis that increased airways responsiveness predicts the development and remission of chronic respiratory symptoms. METHODS We used data from 24-year follow-up (1965-90) of 2684 participants in a cohort study in Vlagtwedde and Vlaardingen, Netherlands. In...

This study assesses the validity, reliability, and responsiveness of the Dutch version of the London Chest Activity of Daily Living scale (LCADL).The English LCADL version was translated into Dutch and then back-translated to English to check if the translation was conceptually equivalent to the original LCADL.Measurement properties were evaluated in191 patients with chronic obstructive pulmona...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to examine the measurement properties of the Dutch SF-36 version 2 (SF-36v2) health survey in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS Scaling assumptions, internal reliability, and internal construct validity were examined using available data from 1884 RA patients included in the Dutch Rheumatoid Arthritis Monitoring (DREAM) registry. External co...

this article is devoted to two theorems on tangent circles, which were discovered by the iranian geometer abu sah?l kuhi (fourth century h.). the two theorems were inspired by the book of lemmas (makhudhat) attributed to archimedes. kuh?'s original treatise is lost, but the two theorems are found in nas??r al-d? ntu?s?'s edition of the lemmas of archimedes. they then appeared in latin...

In the Netherlands, Turkish-Dutch children constitute a substantial group of children who learn to speak Dutch at the age of four after they learned to speak Turkish. These children are generally academically less successful. Academic success appears to be affected by both language proficiency and working memory skill. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between language ...

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This contribution presents the results of comparison of Dutch texts written by bilinguals I) (speaking French and Dutch), with Dutch texts regarded as STANDARD WRITTEN DUTCH. The attention was focussed on French loan-words appearing in both types of texts and the differences in their use. Certain generalizations as to the mechanisms of interference are suggested. The materials used for the pres...

BACKGROUND Over 60 Asian and European families with cortical myoclonic tremor and epilepsy have been reported under various names. Cerebellar changes may be part of the syndrome. In this study, we report the neuropathology findings in a new Dutch familial cortical myoclonic tremor with epilepsy case and review the literature on this syndrome. METHODS Neuropathological investigations were perf...

BACKGROUND Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) ranks among the most common causes of death worldwide. Because SCA is most often lethal, yet mostly occurs in individuals without previously known cardiac disease, the identification of patients at risk for SCA could save many lives. In unselected SCA victims from the community, common genetic variants (which are not disease-causing per se, but may increas...