Immunoglobulin-containing plasma cell densities in the jejunal mucosa and serum and jejunal fluid immunoglobulins have been measured in patients with adult coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis with and without jejunal mucosal abnormality. Studies were performed in patients before and after treatment of the jejunal lesion.Total immunofluorescent plasma cells were increased in untreated a...

flat foot without eversion and who would have been lost under the old regulations. He had thousands of the otitis cases treated by mopping out the ear and dropping in daily equal parts of spirit and carbolic lotion (1-15)Hardly any of them developed a general infection in three years. He points out that with reasonable care in selection and treatment the vast majority of these patients do perfe...

The boundary value problem (BVP) for a class of nonlinear ordinary differential equations is examined. It can be used to describe the eversion problem for a spherical shell composed of a class of transversely isotropic incompressible Mooney-Rivlin materials. The solutions of the nonlinear equation describing the relation among deformed thickness, initial thickness and material parameters of the...

We consider properties of the total absolute geodesic curvature functional on circle immersions into a Riemann surface. In particular, we study its behavior under regular homotopies, its infima in regular homotopy classes, and the homotopy types of spaces of its local minima. We also consider the total curvature functional on the space of 2-sphere immersions into 3-space in a similar spirit. We...

BACKGROUND Jejunal fluid culture is the gold standard for assessing jejunal microflora. Aspiration of jejunal fluid is sometime difficult. As the microorganisms rests on the mucosal surface, culture of the mucosal biopsy may be a possible alternative method. AIM To study the role of jejunal mucosal biopsy culture to assess jejunal microflora and to compare it with jejunal fluid culture. MET...

ALTHOUGH a very rare condition, a case of congenital eversion of the upper eyelids has recently been ieported from America by Ostriker and Lasky (1954) and Hopen (1955). I have not been able to find any case report in the British literature over the last 20 years. Mann (1937) mentions that congenital entropion and ectropion of the lids are extremely rare. DukeElder (1952) mentions that the lid ...

Total gastrectomy is one of the most common operative procedures for gastric malignancy, but therecommended method of gastrointestinal reconstruction after gastrectomy is still controversial. Significantweight loss has been noted by many observers following gastrectomy. The Roux-en-Y method is the mostfrequent reconstructive technique performed after gastrectomy. This technique is easy to perfo...

Background: Running has many health benefits and has therefore become a sport with an expanded popularity worldwide. With it comes an increased incidence of overuse injuries, and there is a constant debate whether the shoes a runner uses should be as supportive as possible or minimalistic in order to facilitate a more natural running pattern. Many running retail outlets use video analysis to fi...