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Research Article

• Improving the chances of successful research funding. (1 November, 1986)

  M Turner-Warwick
• The small clinical trial: is there a better way? (1 November, 1986)

  R J Prescott
• Clinical trials in acute severe asthma: are type II errors important? (1 November, 1986)

  M J Ward
• Number of patients required in lung function studies. (1 November, 1986)

  A G Davison, P M Fayers, A J Nunn, K M Venables, A J Taylor
• A case-control study of deaths from asthma. (1 November, 1986)

  H H Rea, R Scragg, R Jackson, R Beaglehole, J Fenwick, D C Sutherland
• In vitro effect of a mucolytic thiol agent on the activity of polymorphonuclear leucocyte elastase and antileucoprotease. (1 November, 1986)

  J Stolk, J A Kramps, J H Dijkman
• Nocturnal hypoxaemia and quality of sleep in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease. (1 November, 1986)

  W Cormick, L G Olson, M J Hensley, N A Saunders
• Value of computed tomography for selecting patients with bullous lung disease for surgery. (1 November, 1986)

  M D Morgan, D M Denison, B Strickland
• Nasal response of rhinitic and non-rhinitic subjects to histamine and methacholine: a comparative study. (1 November, 1986)

  O J Corrado, C A Gould, J Y Kassab, R J Davies
• Comparison of two high dose corticosteroid aerosol treatments, beclomethasone dipropionate (1500 micrograms/day) and budesonide (1600 micrograms/day), for chronic asthma. (1 November, 1986)

  P Ebden, A Jenkins, G Houston, B H Davies
• Interpretation of negative results in fine needle aspiration of discrete pulmonary lesions. (1 November, 1986)

  A J Winning, J McIvor, W A Seed, O A Husain, N Metaxas
• Chylothorax: a review of 18 cases. (1 November, 1986)

  A J Fairfax, W R McNabb, S G Spiro
• Low cost carbon monoxide monitors in smoking assessment. (1 November, 1986)

  M J Jarvis, M Belcher, C Vesey, D C Hutchison
• Adenosine deaminase activity in tuberculous pericarditis. (1 November, 1986)

  J M Martinez-Vazquez, E Ribera, I Ocaña, R M Segura, R Serrat, J Sagrista
• Aortic aneurysm caused by schistosomiasis. (1 November, 1986)

  E A Vanker
• Pulmonary tuberous sclerosis treated with tamoxifen and progesterone. (1 November, 1986)

  C J Westermann, A C Oostveen, S S Wagenaar, C Hilvering, S E Overbeek, D Verheijen-Breemhaar, B Corrin
• Intrathoracic desmoids: report of two cases. (1 November, 1986)

  J Kaplan, T Davidson
• Bronchopleural fistula after pneumonectomy. (1 November, 1986)

  N Matsumiya, T Mayumi, H Shimizu, T Motohara