98,306 papers found

BACKGROUND: Prone extralevator abdominoperineal excision of the rectum (ELAPE) has been introduced to improve the circumferential resection margins (CRM) compared with traditional APER. OBJECTIVE: We present short-term results achieved with prone ELAPE preceded by neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy during the last 5 years…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the long term effectiveness of a community based program targeting prevention of burns in young children. DESIGN: Quasiexperimental. SETTING: The Norwegian city of Harstad (main intervention), six surrounding municipalities (intervention diffusion), and Trondheim (reference). PARTICIPANTS: Chi…

BACKGROUND: Despite numerous studies, no clear consensus exists for the optimal use of emergency department thoracotomy (EDT). As such, we have continued to critically review our experience with EDT during the last 23 years to clarify indications for EDT and evaluate its cost-effectiveness. METHODS: This was a retrosp…

11,119 patients with scarlet fever admitted in the last sixteen years, from 1973 to 1988, to Sapporo City General Hospital, were studied statistically on symptoms and laboratory findings. The results were summarized as follows: 1. Annual number of patients have reduced suddenly since 1981, and become zero in 1989. The…

Diachasmimorpha kraussii (Fullaway) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) was first released against Bactrocera latifrons (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Hawaii in March 2003. Over a three month period, eight releases, totaling 7,696 females and 3,968 males, were made in a turkeyberry, Solanum torvum Swartz (Solanales: Solanace…

Of 915 resections for bronchogenic carcinoma over a 25-year period (1945-1969), 249 patients survived over 5 years; 127 of the patients eligible survived over 10 years, 61 over 15 years, and 22 over 20 years. The case material was divided into three time periods: 1945-49, 1950-59 and 1960-69, as well as by extent of re…

PURPOSE: To investigate the long-term (10 years) effects of augmented bilateral lateral rectus (aBLR) recession in patients affected by divergence excess intermittent exotropia (deIXT). METHODS: Data of 58 patients affected by deIXT who underwent aBLR muscle recession were retrospectively analyzed. All patients were t…

BACKGROUND: The age-adjusted incidence rate of prostate cancer (PCa) has been reported to be lower among Asians than Western populations. A traditional Japanese meal, high in soybean products or isoflavones, may be associated with a decreased risk of PCa. Equol, which is converted from daidzein by human intestinal flor…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the incidence of ectopic pregnancy over the period 1966 to 1996. SETTING: England and Wales. DESIGN: Use of official statistics on hospital discharges, maternities, legal abortions and estimated populations of women aged 15-44 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Incidence rates of ectopic pregnancies…

The aim of this study was to assess if there are any significant differences of immunoglobulin A, G and M concentration in serum of persons with different stages of periodontal destruction. The study comprised 30 persons (21 female and 9 male) with a mean age of 37.5 years, in whom periodontitis was diagnosed after cli…

This analysis concerns three groups of malformations: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia, patent ductus arteriosus, and oesophageal atresia. We registered a total mortality rate for all congenital diaphragmatic hernias and defects of 28.5%; the rate in full-term neonates was 27.6% and in premature infants 33.6%. Of 65 inf…

Rubella has been a notifiable disease in Iceland since 1888. In this century rubella epidemics of increasing size have occurred at intervals of 5-10 years. The disease has spread throughout the country. About 75% of the patients were below 15 years of age at the time of the last two epidemics. Females account for 51-61…

PURPOSE: To describe the outcomes of allograft ocular surface stem cell transplantation (OSST) and the complication profile of systemic immunosuppression (SI) in pediatric patients with limbal stem cell deficiency. METHODS: This was a retrospective interventional case series from a single tertiary referral institution…

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to analyse the cytological history of women presenting with invasive cervical cancer. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Retrospective study of 148 patients treated for invasive cervical cancer in three hospitals of the North Pas de Calais in France. RESULTS: The average age of patients was 4…

The incidence of rectal cancer in the US is 45,000 per ann um. The 5-year survival is between 40 and 70%. This has not improved over the last 50 years despite improvements in techniques, the aid of new technology (surgical stapling devices in particular) and safer anesthesia.

BACKGROUND: In a case-control study of hormonal contraceptives and invasive cervical cancer, an unexpected finding was a substantial decline in the prevalence of high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection according to the lifetime number of Pap smears received. Here we assess the risk of 3 sexually transmitted vira…

OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to compare authorship trends, by gender, in the neurosurgical oncology literature. METHODS: Complete author listings for neurosurgical oncology articles published between 1944 and 2021 in five top neuro-oncology journals were extracted from the PubMed database and journal websites o…

As part of a questionnaire study of allergic diseases in Swedish children, information about asthma reported in a rural county was evaluated. Of a total population of approx. 9,000 children 4, 7, 10 and 14 years of age, 5.1% reported a history of asthma and 2.4% reported symptoms during the last year. The incidence was…