fond of statements such as "buffer action is ultimately dependent on a spacetime frame of reference." The main fault of this book, however, is that so much of it is outdated. It seems surprising that a text concerned with rational drug design should lack a discussion of protein structure and does not list deoxyribonucleic and ribonucleic acids in its index. Sulfonamide action is discussed witho...

Age assessment is an integral and important aspect of forensic odontology. The use of long bones and teeth has been documented since decades. The aim of this study was to use both radiographic and histologic methods of age estimation and to determine which method gives a near actual age. Orthopantomograph (OPG) was used to study the radiographic changes and ground sections were made for histolo...

Although talc slurry pleurodesis is effective for control of malignant pleural effusions and recurrent pneumothorax, the mechanisms of pleurodesis remain incompletely defined. We instilled 70 mg/kg of sterile asbestos-free talc slurry into the pleural space of New Zealand white rabbits and studied the inflammatory response at 1, 2, 3, 7, 15, 30, 60, 90, and 120 days by observing pleural fluid a...

Just as mycosis fungoides is a disease with many different clinical and histologic manifestations, so too are there many inflammatory conditions that mimic this cutaneous lymphoma. Sometimes the best way to “rule out” a diagnosis of mycosis fungoides is to make a firm diagnosis of another condition. The following entities may be confused with mycosis fungoides on histologic grounds, and represe...