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INTRODUCTION The Psoriasis Area Severity Index (PASI) is the most widely used scale for assessing the severity of psoriasis and for therapeutic decision making. On the basis of the PASI score, patients have been stratified into 2 groups: mild disease and moderate-to-severe disease. OBJECTIVE To draft a proposal for the definition and characterization of moderate psoriasis based on PASI and De...

Background Cardiac dimensions and volumes are widely used throughout cardiac imaging. Body mass index (BMI) and body surface area (BSA) can both be used but BSA is most validated. There are many formulae for calculating BSA but the Mosteller calculation is the easiest, can be performed on a basic calculator and has gained in popularity. BSA = ((height cm*weight kg)<-2>/3600)). Many centers use ...

SIR,-We refer to the article by Dr. I. K. Crombie (1981) on the distribution of malignant melanoma on the body surface. Unfortunately, the author's calculations of the proportional distribution by site of total body melanocytes may be erroneous. In his Table III, the proportions of body surface area at different sites appear to have been transposed, such that the surface area of the upper limb ...

Methods Ten patients with adult-onset GHD and ageand sexmatched controls (n=10) underwent CMR. Patients underwent scans before disease treatment and at twelve months after treatment. Cardiac parameters were calculated and indexed to body surface area (BSA). The comparison between groups was done using Mann-UWhitney test and within the group using Wilcoxon test. The data are presented as median ...

In a recent review, Mathijssen et al. [1] proposed using flatfixed dosing regimens rather than body surface area (BSA)based dosing for anticancer drugs because “it does not seem worse than using BSA-based dosing” with regard to pharmacokinetic variability. We feel that this statement, together with other recent publications arguing against BSAbased dosing, requires a counterpart. Most cytotoxic...

The aim of this study was to find out whether the charging costs (calculated using interventional burn score) increased as mortality decreased. During the last 2 decades, mortality has declined significantly in the Linköping Burn Centre. The burn score that we use has been validated as a measure of workload and is used to calculate the charging costs of each burned patient. We compared the char...

The authors report on the variability in the integrated quantity of free (unbound) plasma cisplatin (area under curve of plasma concentration versus time, AUC). The AUC was measured in 19 patients receiving cisplatin doses proportional to body surface areas (BSA), 30 mg/m2 over 1 hour. The relative standard deviation (RSD, population standard deviation divided by mean value) for the maximum fre...