Antwerp University Hospital Research Articles

MR imaging of eosinophilic granuloma: Report of 11 cases : De Schepper AMA, Ramon F, Van Marck E. (Department of Medical Imaging, University Hospital Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, B-2520 Edegem, Belgium). Australas Radiol 1993;37:147–155

MR imaging of eosinophilic granuloma: Report of 11 cases : De Schepper AMA, Ramon F, Van Marck E. (Department of Medical Imaging, University Hospital Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, B-2520 Edegem, Belgium). Australas Radiol 1993;37:147–155

Final dose intensity (FDI) correlates with chemotherapy outcome in SCLC : Van Meerbeeck, J.P., Verresen, D., Vermeire, P.A., Dept. Resp. Med., University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium

Final dose intensity (FDI) correlates with chemotherapy outcome in SCLC : Van Meerbeeck, J.P., Verresen, D., Vermeire, P.A., Dept. Resp. Med., University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium

Magnetic resonance imaging of soft tissue tumors : De Schepper AM, Ramon FA, Degryse HR (Department of Radiology, University Hospital Antwerp, Wilrijikstraat 10, B-2650 Edegem, Belgium). J Belge Radiol 1992;75:286–296

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the only noninvasive method of defining a soft tissue tumor. The anatomical extent of the tumor and the involvement of various adjacent tissues and structures can be determined. This information is invaluable for staging and optimal management of the disease.

The periodicities in and biometeorological relationships with bed occupancy of an acute psychiatric ward in Antwerp, Belgium.

Recently, some investigators have established a seasonal pattern in normal human psychology, physiology and behaviour, and in the incidence of psychiatric psychopathology. In an attempt to elucidate the chronopsy and meteotropism in the latter, we have examined the chronograms of, and the biometeorological relationships to bed occupancy of the psychiatric ward of the Antwerp University Hospital during three consecutive calendar years (1987-1989). Weather data for the vicinity were provided by a local meteorological station and comprise mean atmospheric pressure, air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and minutes of sunlight and precipitation/day. The number of psychiatric beds occupied during the study period exhibited a significant seasonal variation. Peaks in bed occupancy were observed in March and November, with lows in August. An important part of the variability in the number of beds occupied could be explained by the composite effects of weather variables of the preceding weeks. Our results suggest that short-term fluctuations in atmospheric activity may dictate some of the periodicities in psychiatric psychopathology.

The prevalence of hairy leukoplakia in HIV seropositive and HIV seronegative immunocompromised patients.

The prevalence of hairy leukoplakia was determined among 176 symptomatic HIV seropositive patients seen at the outpatient department of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium. Moreover, systematic tongue biopsies were performed during postmortem examination of 21 patients with AIDS, 100 HIV seronegative immunocompromised patients with haematologic or other malignancies and 100 HIV seronegative non-immunocompromised patients who died at the University Hospital Antwerp. Hairy leukoplakia was observed in 52 (29.5%) of the outpatients, but only in one (5%) of the AIDS patients in the postmortem study (P = 0.03). An explanation for this difference may be that significantly more AIDS patients who died had received either acyclovir or ganciclovir during the 3 months prior to the postmortem examination than the HIV seropositive outpatients during the 3 months prior to examination. Hairy leukoplakia occurred more often in Caucasian homosexual men with HIV infection (38%) than among heterosexual Africans with HIV infection (17%) (P = 0.06). Hairy leukoplakia was observed in none of the HIV seronegative patients.

Staging of reflex sympathetic dystrophy with 99Tcm-HSA

1Department of Nuclear Medicine 2Department of Physical Medicine Antwerp University Hospital Edegem Belgium

The Stypven clotting time for measuring platelet procoagulant activity : Results in normal samples and preliminary results in hematological patients: [formula omitted] University Hospital Antwerp, Laboratory of Hematology, Edegem, Belgium

The Stypven clotting time for measuring platelet procoagulant activity : Results in normal samples and preliminary results in hematological patients: [formula omitted] University Hospital Antwerp, Laboratory of Hematology, Edegem, Belgium

Dose escalation in Malignant Mesothelioma (MM): Preliminary report of a phase 2 trial of doxorubicin (D), Ifosfamide (I)/Mesna and rhGM-CSF: J. Van Meerbeeck, L.Y. Dirix, B. Corthouts, A. Prové, P.A. Vermeire, E. Van Marck, A.T. Van Oosterom, University Hospital Antwerp, B-2650 Edegem, Belgium

Dose escalation in Malignant Mesothelioma (MM): Preliminary report of a phase 2 trial of doxorubicin (D), Ifosfamide (I)/Mesna and rhGM-CSF: J. Van Meerbeeck, L.Y. Dirix, B. Corthouts, A. Prové, P.A. Vermeire, E. Van Marck, A.T. Van Oosterom, University Hospital Antwerp, B-2650 Edegem, Belgium

Compatibility studies of calcium and phosphate salts in neonatal parenteral nutrient solutions with vamin glucose: [formula omitted], A. Deprettere, M. Vandewoude, E. Gryson, I. De Leeuw. Department of Nutrition, University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium

Compatibility studies of calcium and phosphate salts in neonatal parenteral nutrient solutions with vamin glucose: [formula omitted], A. Deprettere, M. Vandewoude, E. Gryson, I. De Leeuw. Department of Nutrition, University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium

Chromium intake in total parenteral nutrition : O. Van Schoor, [formula omitted], H. Deelstra, E. Gryson, I. De Leeuw (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium)

Chromium intake in total parenteral nutrition : O. Van Schoor, [formula omitted], H. Deelstra, E. Gryson, I. De Leeuw (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium)