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Research Article

• Use of near fatal asthma for investigating asthma deaths. (1 November, 1993)

  R Beasley, N Pearce, J Crane
• Airway hyperresponsiveness: relation to asthma and inflammation? (1 November, 1993)

  D F Rogers, B J O'Connor
• Development of bronchus associated lymphoid tissue (BALT) in human lung disease: a normal host defence mechanism awaiting therapeutic exploitation? (1 November, 1993)

  P G Holt
• Near fatal asthma attacks: the reliability of descriptive information collected from close acquaintances. (1 November, 1993)

  D A Campbell, G McLennan, J R Coates, P A Frith, P A Gluyas, K M Latimer, A J Martin, D M Roder, R E Ruffin, D Scarce
• Demographic characteristics of patients with severe life threatening asthma: comparison with asthma deaths. (1 November, 1993)

  G N Richards, J Kolbe, J Fenwick, H H Rea
• Controlled trial evaluation of an asthma education programme for adults. (1 November, 1993)

  R Yoon, D K McKenzie, A Bauman, D A Miles
• A district confidential enquiry into deaths due to asthma. (1 November, 1993)

  N J Wareham, B D Harrison, P F Jenkins, J Nicholls, D E Stableforth
• Changes in methacholine induced bronchoconstriction with the long acting beta 2 agonist salmeterol in mild to moderate asthmatic patients. (1 November, 1993)

  H Booth, K Fishwick, R Harkawat, G Devereux, D J Hendrick, E H Walters
• Distribution of immunocompetent cells in the bronchial wall of clinically healthy subjects showing bronchial hyperresponsiveness. (1 November, 1993)

  C Power, S Sreenan, B Hurson, C Burke, L W Poulter
• Bronchus associated lymphoid tissue (BALT) in human lung: its distribution in smokers and non-smokers. (1 November, 1993)

  I Richmond, G E Pritchard, T Ashcroft, A Avery, P A Corris, E H Walters
• How reliable is the diagnosis of lung cancer using small biopsy specimens? Report of a UKCCCR Lung Cancer Working Party. (1 November, 1993)

  J S Thomas, D Lamb, T Ashcroft, B Corrin, C W Edwards, A R Gibbs, W E Kenyon, R J Stephens, W F Whimster
• Intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1) in the pathogenesis of mononuclear cell alveolitis in pulmonary sarcoidosis. (1 November, 1993)

  K Dalhoff, S Bohnet, J Braun, B Kreft, K J Wiessmann
• Oxygen desaturation and breathlessness during corridor walking in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: effect of oxitropium bromide. (1 November, 1993)

  D P Spence, J G Hay, J Carter, M G Pearson, P M Calverley
• Bronchodilator reversibility to low and high doses of terbutaline and ipratropium bromide in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (1 November, 1993)

  D M Newnham, D P Dhillon, J H Winter, C M Jackson, R A Clark, B J Lipworth
• Bronchoscopic diathermy resection and stent insertion: a cost effective treatment for tracheobronchial obstruction. (1 November, 1993)

  M Petrou, D Kaplan, P Goldstraw
• Measurement of exhaled nitric oxide in man. (1 November, 1993)

  C Borland, Y Cox, T Higenbottam
• Prevalence of chronic cough and phlegm among male cigar and pipe smokers: results of the Scottish Heart Health Study. (1 November, 1993)

  C A Brown, M Woodward, H Tunstall-Pedoe
• Time trends and seasonal variation in hospital admissions for childhood asthma in the Athens region of Greece: 1978-88. (1 November, 1993)

  K Priftis, J Anagnostakis, E Harokopos, I Orfanou, M Petraki, P Saxoni-Papageorgiou
• Long term domiciliary oxygen therapy in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (1 November, 1993)

  M I Walters, P R Edwards, J C Waterhouse, P Howard
• Thoracoscopic pericardial fenestration: diagnostic and therapeutic aspects. (1 November, 1993)

  A Cantó, R Guijarro, A Arnau, A Fernández-Centeno, M A Císcar, J Galbis, A García-Vilanova
• Mediastinal paraganglioma presenting as an intracardiac mass with superior vena caval obstruction. (1 November, 1993)

  S K Sharma, S Sharma, S Mukhopadhyay
• Spontaneous sternal fractures in four patients with chronic airflow obstruction taking corticosteroids. (1 November, 1993)

  K Hameed, G E Packe, J S Legge, J A Friend
• Spontaneous haemothorax: an unusual presentation of primary lung cancer. (1 November, 1993)

  S H Chou, Y J Cheng, E L Kao, C Y Chai
• Need for a comparative performance standard for dry powder inhalers. (1 November, 1993)

  R Richards, M Saunders