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Papular urticaria: A histopathologic study of 30 patients

Jordaan H.F.; Schneider J.W. (1997)

Papular urticaria is the result of hypersensitivity (id-reaction) to bites from certain insects such as mosquitoes gnats, fleas, mites, and bedbugs. Papular urticaria is common in childhood and is characterized by symmetrically ...

Analysis of spinocerebellar ataxia types 1, 2, 3, and 6, dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, and Friedreich's ataxia genes in spinocerebellar ataxia patients in the UK

Leggo J.; Dalton A.; Morrison P.J.; Dodge A.; Connarty M.; Kotze M.J.; Rubinsztein D.C. (1997)

Accurate clinical diagnosis of the spino-cerebellar ataxias (SCAs) can be diffcult because of overlap in phenotype with other disorders and variation in clinical manifestations. Six SCA loci have been mapped and four disease ...

Effect of sperm preincubation time on GIFT pregnancy outcome

Coetzee K.; Stander F.S.H.; Windt M.-L.; Erasmus E.; Smith K.; Kruger T.F.; Van Der Merwe J.P.; Lombard C.J. (1997)

This investigation was conducted to evaluate the effect of human sperm preincubation time on the pregnancy outcome in gamete intrafallopian tube transfers. This was determined in a retrospective study on gamete intrafallopian ...

Carcinoma of the penis - Appraisal of a modified tumour-staging system

Heyns C.F.; Van Vollenhoven P.; Steenkamp J.W.; Allen F.J.; Van Velden D.J.J. (1997)

Objective. To evaluate variables for the prediction of lymph node metastases in carcinoma of the penis, using a recently proposed modified tumour-staging system that combines the histological degree of differentiation and ...

Internal urethrotomy versus dilation as treatment for male urethral strictures: A prospective, randomized comparison

Steenkamp J.W.; Heyns C.F.; De Kock M.L.S. (1997)

Purpose: We compared the efficacy of dilation versus internal urethrotomy as initial outpatient treatment for male urethral stricture disease. Materials and Methods: A total of 210 men with proved urethral strictures was ...

The influence of the angiotensin I converting enzyme genotype in familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy varies with the disease gene mutation

Tesson F.; Dufour C.; Moolman J.C.; Carrier L.; Al-Mahdawi S.; Chojnowska L.; Dubourg O.; Soubrier F.; Brink P.; Komajda M.; Guicheney P.; Schwartz K.; Feingold J. (1997)

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an autosomal dominant genetically heterogeneous disease characterized by a partial penetrance and variable expressivity. Previous studies showed that the extent of hypertrophy is ...

rhuIL-2 adjunctive therapy in multidrug resistant tuberculosis: A comparison of two treatment regimens and placebo

Johnson B.J.; Bekker L.-G.; Rickman R.; Brown S.; Lesser M.; Ress S.; Willcox P.; Steyn L.; Kaplan G. (1997)

Setting: Low-dose recombinant human interleukin 2 (rhuIL-2) adjunctive immunotherapy in multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients. Objective: Evaluation of the effects of daily versus pulse-administered rhuIL-2 ...