DISCUSSION ARTICLES Kawabata et al. Eosinophilia in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and architectural destruction are features of desquamative interstitial pneumonia. Histopathology 2008;52:194-202. Prasse et al. Phenotyping sarcoidosis from a pulmonary perspective. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2008;177:330-6 Sumikawa et al. Computed Tomography Findings in Pathological Usual Interstitial Pneumonia. ...

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Headache publishes original articles on all aspects of head and face pain including communications on clinical and basic research, diagnosis and management, epidemiology, genetics, and pathophysiology of primary and secondary headaches, cranial neuralgias, and pains referred to the head and face. Monthly issues feature case reports, short communications, review articles, letters to the editor, ...

In the last years Prof. Lenz has contributed a lot of work on Business Intelligence. This articles tries to give a short overview of selected papers. Since 1975 Hans-J. Lenz published more than 350 scientific books, papers and reports. A brief overview on the work on Business Intelligence is given in this article. Corresponding to the structure of this book the following articles are outlined.

The Rheumatology Journal Scan is the clinician's guide to the latest clinical research findings in Arthritis and Rheumatism, The Journal of Rheumatology, The New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, and other journals of interest in rheumatology. Short summaries of feature articles include links to the article abstracts when available. (Access to full-text articles usually ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the quality and comprehensiveness of the information on caesarean section provided in Brazilian women's magazines. DESIGN Review of articles published during 1988-2008 in top selling women's magazines. SETTING Brazil, one of the countries with the highest caesarean section rates in the world. DATA SOURCES Women's magazines with the largest distribution during the study...

We give a short overview of the accelerating Universe paradigm and brief description articles in this special collection.

PRACTITIONERS, MANUFACTURERS, AND REGULATORY AGENCIES have long regarded central venous catheters (CVCs) as relatively dangerous, problem-prone devices. Recent attention has been focused primarily on reduction of infectious complications of CVCs. Application of strict aseptic precautions (the so-called ‘‘central-line bundle’’) when placing CVCs effectively has reduced the incidence of catheter-...

Page 721 IgG4-related disease (RD) is a newly recognized systemic disease characterized by high serum IgG4 levels that affects multiple organs including salivary glands and the nasal and paranasal sinuses. Accordingly, many IgG4-RD patients complain about olfactory dysfunction. Yagi-Nakanishi et al have now investigated olfactory function in these patients. More than 50% of the patients suffere...

The use of a reduced verbal system as ELF English as a lingua franca in the sciences does not appear to be a perfectly adequate way of expressing cultural identities. A modern society should instead enforce, through instruction, the understanding of several national cultural scripts, one’s own and others, and the understanding of the way communication and languages works. Multilingualism and in...