Letter: functional dyspepsia is associated with duodenal eosinophilia in an Australian paediatric cohort-methodological issues to avoid misinterpretation. Authors’ reply

The Gastric and Duodenal Eosinophilia in Functional Dyspepsia

Received: June 13, 2016 Revised: None Accepted: June 13, 2016 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. *Correspondence: Hyun Jin Kim...

Implications of eosinophilia in the normal duodenal biopsy - an association with allergy and functional dyspepsia.

BACKGROUND Allergy and functional gastrointestinal disorders have been associated with eosinophilia in duodenal mucosa. AIM To assess the prevalence of eosinophilia in duodenal biopsies of patients attending for oesophogastroduodenoscopy and delineate associated clinical conditions. METHODS A total of 155 patients (mean age 55 years, 59% women) with normal duodenal biopsies were randomly se...

Authors' Reply to the Letter to the Editor “Validity of an Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test: Methodological Issues”

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Authors’ Reply to the Letter to the Editor “Validity of an Alcohol Use Disorder Identificatio...

Letter to the editor: Authors' reply

To the Editor: We welcome the interest and enthusiasm of Halber et aL (1997) in the nonparametric randomization test that we described (Holmes et aL, 1996) not least because they called their program 'Sherlock', However, as the great detective would surely have pointed out, there are a num­ ber of flaws in the article that led the authors to an incorrect primary conclusion, that our test "is a ...

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