OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between temporal artery biopsy (TAB) length and the diagnostic sensitivity for giant cell arteritis (GCA). METHODS TAB pathology reports were reviewed for histological findings and formalin-fixed TAB lengths. The patient's charts were reviewed for clinical data. TAB was considered positive if there was a mononuclear cell infiltrate in the vessel wall....

Reactions of TabHPF(6) (Tab = 4-(trimethylammonio)benzenethiolate) with three equiv. of M(OAc)(2)·2H(2)O (M = Zn, Cd) gave rise to two tetranuclear adamantane-like compounds, [M(4)(μ-Tab)(6)(Tab)(4)](PF(6))(8)·S (·S: M = Zn, S = DMF·4H(2)O; ·S: M = Cd, S = DMF·5H(2)O). The similar reactions of MCl(2) (M = Zn, Cd, Hg) with four equiv. of TabHPF(6) in the presence of Et(3)N afforded three mononuc...

BACKGROUND Giant cell arteritis (GCA) has the potential to cause irreversible blindness and stroke in affected patients [1-4]. Temporal artery biopsy (TAB) remains the gold standard test for GCA [6-8]. Recent literature suggests that TAB does not change management of patients with suspected GCA and that ultrasound scan (USS) may be sufficient enough alone to confirm the diagnosis [9-11,13]. The...

Vol. 1 400 p., 38 fig., 1939 (first edition) XXIV + 400 p., 38 fig., 1966 (second edition) Vol. 2 VIII + 356 p., 50 fig., 37 tab., 1949 Vol. 3 VIII -F 572 p., 82 fig., 61 tab., 1 cpl., 1952 Vol. 4 VIII + 520 p., 149 fig., 63 tab., 1954 Vol. 5 XI + 508 p., 103 fig., 6 tab., 1958 Vol. 6 XII + 600 p., 78 fig., 38 tab., 1962 Vol. 7 XII + 334 p., 46 fig., 42 tab., 1963 Vol. 8 X + 261 p., 35 fig., 32...

We present a new approach to the execution of functional logic programs. Our approach relies on definitional trees for the deterministic portions of a computation and on a graph transformation, called pull-tab, for the non-deterministic portions. This transformation moves, one level at a time, non-deterministic choices towards the root of the graph representing the state of a computation. With ...