Simple aspiration versus intercostal tube drainage for spontaneous pneumothorax in patients with normal lungs

patients starting second line drug treatment who require faster correction of their anaemia than would be achieved by the modifying effect on the disease of such drugs.We thank Cilag for providing the human recombinant erythropoietin and matching placebo; metrologists Anne Thomson (Glasgow), Frances McEvoy (Belfast), and Gwynneth Clarke (Eastbourne); Dorothy McKnight for help with computing; and Professor R D Sturrock and Drs A Zoma and Max Field for allowing us to include their patients in the study.