11.   The following case reports show the tendency to doubt the diagnosis and over investigate such patients.

12.   Case reports of rare complications of sclerotherapy include spinal cord paralysis after injection of sclerosant in the mid-oesophagus, brain abscess, digital gangrene, and acute renal failure.

13.   The ability to detect symptomless arterial cerebral emboli may have major benefits in the management of patients with cerebrovascular disease, as shown by the following case report.

14.   This conflict is apparent from the earliest case reports.

15.   A large number of case reports by clinicians support the benefits of the therapy, though as yet few studies back up these anecdotal accounts.

16.   Nonetheless, there have been persistent medical case reports that in a tiny fraction of people, the drug may unleash aggression.

17.   The FDA might have discovered the prison study omissions if it had compared the test summary with the individual case report forms.

18.   There has been no systematic study of side effects, but there have been case reports of muscle cramping and the exacerbation of existing kidney problems.

19.   According to Mr Ma, copies of the draft case report were sent to witnesses criticised but not people implicated.

20.   But he noted that the FDA reports were incomplete, and many of these men could have heart-related problems that were not noted in their case reports.