1.   Only one control tissue fulfilled our criteria for positivity.

2.   Only patients who fulfilled the criteria described by Isaacson etal were included.

3.   Results One hundred and eighty patients fulfilled the criteria for entry into the surveillance programme.

4.   Second, that patients fulfilling our criteria will die in spite of sclerotherapy.

5.   Only patients who fulfilled the criteria described by Isaacson et al were included.

6.   Notes were scrutinised for evidence that these criteria had been fulfilled.

7.   One hundred and eighty patients fulfilled the criteria for entry into the surveillance programme.

8.   No qualification period is required as the other criteria cannot be fulfilled unless the applicant has been personally conducting cases for at least three years.

9.   As a result, Finance Minister Rudolf Edlinger recently said that Austria had fulfilled the criteria for taking part in European Monetary Union.