Letters to the Editor

Larner AJ . Normalization of slow-relaxing tendon reflexes (Woltman's sign) following cardiac pacing for complete heart block. Br J Clin Pract (in press)

Nesbitt J Sawyer J. Surgical management of oesophageal perforation. Am Surg 1987; 53: 187

Cameron J Kieffer R Hendrix T Mehigan D Baker R. Selective non-operative management of contained intrathoracic oesophageal disruptions. Ann Thorac Surg 1979; 27: 404–8

Jones W Ginsberg R. Oesophageal perforation: A continuing challenge. Ann Thorac Surg 1992; 53: 534–43

Barrett N. Report of a case of spontaneous perforation of the oesophagus successfully treated by operation. Br J Surg 1947; 35: 216–18

Gouge T Depan H Spencer F. Experience with the Grillo pleural wrap procedure in 18 patients with perforation of the thoracic oesophagus. Ann Surg 1989; 209: 612–19

Hendry W Munro A Logie J. Spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus: Principles of management. J R Coll Surg Edin 1986; 31: 274–6

Sabanatham S Eng J Richardson J. Surgical management of intrathoracic oesophageal rupture. Br J Surg 1994; 81: 863–5

Rippere V. Biochemical victims: False negative diagnosis through overreliance on laboratory results—a personal report. Med Hypotheses J 1983; 10: 113–30

Stewart DC Sullivan TJ . Illness behaviour and the sick role in chronic disease. Soc Sci Med 1982; 16: 1397–404

Rippere V. The mental state of dismissed patients. An enquiry into dismissal injury. III. The phenomenology of dismissal injury. Newsl Soc Environ Ther 1992; 12: 14–27

Rippere V. The mental state of dismissed patients. An enquiry into dismissal injury. IV. Dismissal injury as post-traumatic stress disorder. Newsl Soc Environ Ther 1992; 12: 61–71

Coyne JD Kealey WF . Seminal vesicle amyloidosis: Morphological, histochemical and immunohistochemical observations. Histopathology 1993; 22: 173–6

Bursell S. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Paraamyloidose im urogenita-len System unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der sog. Senilen Amyloidose in den Samenblaschen und ihres Verhaltnisses zume Samenblaschen-pigment. Ups Lakareg Forh 1942; 47: 313

Krane RJ Klugo RC Olsson CA . Seminal vesicle amyloidosis. Urology 1993; 2: 70–2

Cams CK McLaughlin AP Gittes RF . Amyloidosis of the lower genitourinary tract. J Urol 1976; 115: 423–5

Rippere V. The mental state of dismissed patients—an enquiry into dismissal injury. I. A very peculiar practice. Newl Soc Environm Ther 1991; 11 (1–2): 25–9

Rippere V. The mental state of dismissed patients—an enquiry into dismissal injury. II. Dismissal as unfinished business. Newsl Soc Environm Ther 1991; 11 (3–4): 72–9

Rippere V. The mental state of dismissed patients—an enquiry into dismissal injury. III. The phenomenology of dismissal injury. Newsl Soc Environm Ther 1992; 12(1): 14–27

Rippere V. The mental state of dismissed patients—an enquiry into dismissal injury. IV. Dismissal injury as post-traumatic stress disorder. Newsl Soc Environm Ther 1992; 12(2): 61–71

Rippere V. The mental state of dismissed patients—an enquiry into dismissal injury. V. Wider repercussions of psychogenic dismissal. Newsl Soc Environm Ther 1992; 12(2): 138–48

Stewart DC Sullivan TJ . Illness behaviour and the sick role in chronic disease. Soc Sci Med 1982; 16: 1397–404

Attwood HD . A dissertation upon the lung of the late Dr Samuel Johnson, the great lexicographer. Lancet 1985;ii: 1411–13