Search Results - (Author, Cooperation:D. L. Roberts)

2014-06-21

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Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

In 1990 we reported the trends in presentation of malignant melanoma (MM) from 1986 to 1988 in a defined population in South Wales. Ten years after this initial study we reassessed the incidence of invasive MM in this defined population over a similar 3 year period. Using the local skin cancer registry we identified 186 cases of MM representing a 74% increase. Age standardization to the world population gives an overall incidence of 11.8 per 100 000 population per annum. This is the highest published standard incidence of MM to date from the UK and certainly one of the highest in Europe. We also have observed a continuing trend for diagnosis of thinner lesions with a better prognosis. Information about mortality for the whole of Wales over the corresponding period is also presented.

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1365-2230

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

Cancer registries are used to compare incidences between regions, plan for service provision, and to assess the impact of health interventions. Significant variation in data capture for skin cancers and reporting of results was evident between regional cancer registries in the UK when assessed in 1991. Using a postal questionnaire we sought to document methods of recording skin cancer incidence in the UK in 2000, and to assess if practice has changed from 1991. All UK cancer registries were asked for details of their method of skin cancer case registration and latest available incidence figures. Methodology was assessed against recently implemented national standards. All registries responded to the survey. Sources of data were more uniform than was the case 9 years ago. All registries except one attained national standards for basal cell carcinoma data collection, but only half of the registries attained standards for squamous cell carcinoma. Ten of the 12 correctly recorded numbers of malignant melanomas, but three still failed to record the Breslow thickness or Clarke's level. Wide variation is evident in the recorded incidences for each of the malignancies, and the efficiency at which figures are made available. Thus, although there has been improvement since 1991, variability still exists between UK registries in methods of data capture, the data recorded, and efficiency of data processing in skin cancer registration.

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1365-2222

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

Three hundred patients with ulcerative colitis, 200 with Crohn's disease and matched control subjects completed questionnaires about atopic disease. They were asked whether they had ever suffered from asthma, hay fever, allergic rhinitis or eczema; in ulcerative colitis all of these features occurred with twice the frequency, but in Crohn's disease only eczema was more common than in controls.

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1600-0536

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

Two patients who underwent extensive pre-operative skin preparations with Hibiscrub prior to orthopaedic operations developed acute contact dermatitis at the operation site post-operatively, Both were shown to be sensitised to Ammonyx LO, the foaming agent in Hibiscrub, and one also to chlorliexidine diglcomate. The details of two other patients who had reacted similary were reviewed.

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1600-0536

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

Three men working as mouldmakers in the pottery industry acquired a contact allergic dermatitis to a releasing oil. All three were shown to he sensitized to the biocide (1,2-benzisothinzolin-3-one) in the oil.

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1600-0536

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

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1365-2133

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

The undoubted clinical usefulness of salicylic acid contrasts markedly with its barely detectable action on normal skin. In this study we have attempted to extend our understanding of the action of salicylic acid by monitoring its effect on the stratum corneum using newly developed techniques for assessing desquamation, as well as using conventional methods for measuring other aspects of epidermal activity.Our findings have succeeded in demonstrating that salicylic acid enhances the shedding of corneocytes and we suggest that this compound in some way decreases corneocyte to corneocyte cohesion.We have confirmed that salicylic acid has no effect on the mitotic activity of the normal epidermis.

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1600-0536

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

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1749-6632

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Natural Sciences in General

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1476-4687

Nature Archives 1869 - 2009

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[Auszug] The model used was a version of the Hadley Centre general circulation model (GCM), a configuration of the UK Meteorological Office's unified forecast/climate model8. The model includes a prognostic cloud scheme which predicts cloud liquid-and ice-water contents9, and a parametrization of the ...

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