J. DEQUEKER, C. HAWKEY,* A. KAHAN,† K. STEINBRÜCK,‡ C. ALEGRE,§ E. BAUMELOU,¶ B. BÉGAUD,d H. ISOMÄKI,** G. LITTLEJOHN,†† J. MAU‡‡ and S. PAPAZOGLOU§§ ON BEHALF OF THE SELECT STUDY GROUP Division of Rheumatology, University Hospitals, K.U. Leuven, Belgium, *University Hospital Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, †Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France, ‡Sportklinik Stuttgart, Germany, §Hospital de Enferm...

wise healthy and beautiful towns and villages dreadfully unhealthy. As an observer from the West Coast in South India, I may mention Mangalore in South Canara, Ponnani in Malabar, Mattancheri in Cochin and Sherthali in Travancore, as a few examples of such places where people with ' big legs' or ' indecently hung' may be seen in disgusting proportions not to speak of the sufferers who go down w...

Agnès Lillo-Le Louët1; Martine Wolf2; Lilia Soufir3; Arnaud Galbois4,5,6; Anne-Sylvie Dumenil2; Georges Offenstadt4,5,7; Meyer-Michel Samama8, 9 1AP-HP, European Hospital Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; 2AP-HP, Antoine Béclère Hospital, Clamart, France; 3Saint-Joseph Hospital, Paris, France; 4 AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Service de Réanimation Médicale, Paris, France; 5UPMC, Univ Paris 06, S...

1Theodor Kocher Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; 2Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR 8104), Paris, France; 3Inserm (U567), Paris, France; 4Division of Immunogenetics, Department of Immunobiology and Neuroscience, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; 5Japan Science and Technology, CREST...

Compiled by Manoj Prathapan, Amrita institute of Medical Sciences. Cochin Cataract surgery in its simplest form is at least 4000 years old. Couching for cataract was the earliest method at about 2000 BC, and even then was evidently practiced in the Tigris / Euphrates area, India and Japan. The earliest records are from the early Hindu records of Susruta’s time and from Bible and Red Sea Scrolls...

1 Department of Dermatology, Charité – University Medical Centre Berlin, Charité Platz 1, Berlin, D-10117, Germany 2 Department of Dermatology, Monklands Hospital, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, ML6 0JS, UK 3 Department of Dermatology, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio Coppito 2, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy 4 Service de Dermatologie Allergologie, Hôpital Cochin, 89 rue d’Assas, 75006 Paris, France and Univer...

Ditte K. Klein, Henriette Pilegaard, Jonas T. Treebak, Thomas E. Jensen, Benoit Viollet, Peter Schjerling, and Jørgen F. P. Wojtaszewski Section of Human Physiology, Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, and Department of Molecular Biology, Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, University of Copenhagen; Department of Molecular Muscle Biology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, and Department of Biom...

130 Indian Journal of Gastroenterology 2005 Vol 24 May June nodes outside the traditional drainage area and resection line is another potential use of sentinel node mapping.4 However this did not occur in any of our patients. In summary, sentinel node mapping may be of use in colorectal malignancy to increase the yield of positive lymph nodes. Upstaging probably occurs but is relatively infrequ...

1STD Clinic, Hôpital Saint-Louis AP-HP and Hôpital Saint-Joseph, Paris, France; 2Department of Pediatric Dermatovenereology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; 3Syphilis National Reference Center, Hôpital Tarnier-Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, France; WHO Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and other Sexually Transmitted Infections, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology, Örebro ...