In the course of 6 years a group of patients was isolated who were characterized by a curious discrepancy. On the one hand they showed a robust personality and a practically infinite capacity for work, but on the other hand they presented two unfavourable features, viz. substantial subcutaneous nodules (often the reason for referral) and a high titre in the Rose test. This type of reaction to r...

A sixty-one years old man presented with multiple nodules and plaques of different sizes, distributed on the face, trunk, buttocks and lower extremities. He had a history of prior treatment with dapsone monotherapy for Lepromatous leprosy (LL) thirty years ago. The patient was diagnosed with Histoid Borderline-Lepromatous Leprosy after clinical examination and the results of slit skin smears an...

Some respiratory symptoms in mushroom growers such as mushroom worker's lung develop by inhalation of certain agents arising from the environment of mushroom cultivation. Recently we observed mushroom workers who had respiratory symptoms which might be type III hypersensitivity reaction to the antigen of Pleurotus floridae. We gave questionnaires to all the mushroom growers at one of the bigges...

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A 65-year-old woman with stage IIIA lung adenocarcinoma had received a right middleand lowerbilobectomy followed by six cycles of chemotherapy with gemcitabine and cisplatin. Docetaxel was administered because of poor response to the previous therapy. The treatment schedule for each cycle was intravenous infusion of docetaxel for 30 min on days 1, 8 and 15. The dosage was 36 mg/m weekly for eac...

The oxidation of n-pentanol by tetramethylammonium fluorochromate in acidic solution wasstudied using spectrophotometric technique. The reaction was arranged to be under pseudo firstorderconditions respect to the oxidant. A Michaelis-Menten type kinetic was observed respect tothe substrate. The reaction is catalyzed by hydrogen ions. Dependences of the reaction rates ontemperature and different...