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In the last 2 decades, reports of skiing injuries have shown an increasing number of skiers with severe trauma. This article provides an account of a retrospective study of 549 patients with 1155 facial injuries sustained while skiing who received treatment at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Uni…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of Bryan cervical disc replacement on cervical curvature and replacement segment in the treatment of cervical spondylosis, and analyze its clinical efficacy. METHODS: Forty-nine patients underwent Bryan artificial cervical disc replacement from August 2010 to August 2013 were retro…

Active peat erosion is widespread in the Wicklow mountains, and it has been suggested that peat accumulation has slowed or ceased in the area associated with the erosive processes. Analysis of the recent deposition of pollen and magnetic minerals at three sites shows that significant quantities of peat (6.5 to 16.5 cm)…

AIM: To evaluate ovarian function after modern intensive multi-agent chemotherapy for osteosarcoma given during childhood or adolescence. METHODS: After discontinuation of treatment, 10 female osteosarcoma survivors were followed up for 1.5-14 (median 4.6) years. Their age at diagnosis was a median of 12.9 (range 6-15…

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of definitive arthrodesis on frontal and sagittal spine balance in EOS patients treated with MCGR, as well as the complications associated with this procedure and the outcome at last follow-up. METHODS: This was a multicentre study in 10 French centres. All pa…

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity." The opening line of Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities could easily be the dramatic opening line of a summary of the establishment of a satellite medic…

OBJECTIVE: Urinary incontinence (UI) symptoms are common among women, yet only a small proportion of women with incontinence receive a diagnosis and treatment. We used survey and utilization data to determine the prevalence, burden, and treatment use for incontinence among women at Kaiser Permanente in Northern Califor…

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the clinical and functional results of treating congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia (CPT) using the combined techniques of hamartoma resection, periosteal grafting, circular external fixator application, and intramedullary rodding. METHODS: The clinical and radiological data of 17…

PURPOSE: This study aimed to describe the visits profile to Hospital São Paulo's ophthalmology emergency department, a 24-hour public open-access tertiary-care service in São Paulo, Brazil, that belongs to Federal University of São Paulo, over the last 11 years. METHODS: A cross-sectional retrospective…

PURPOSE: To evaluate long-term patient-reported quality of life (QOL) scores in men with prostate cancer treated at our institution withCs prostate brachytherapy. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Patients treated more than 4 years ago withCs (n=290) were asked to fill out an Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (E…

Variability of FVIII:C levels in healthy individuals and age-dependent increase are a known phenomenon. In haemophilia, increasing FVIII:C levels with age have not been described yet. In our study, we evaluated this issue retrospectively in a cohort older than 45 years of 29 patients with mild haemophilia and 14 patien…

BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is recently identified risk factor for development and progression of chronic liver disease as well as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We planned a prospective analysis to identify impact of DM in Indian patients with HCC. METHODS: During last 10 years, 160 consecutive patients of HC…

Proficiency in animal welfare is among the core competencies of graduating veterinary students. With growing societal concern surrounding welfare topics, it is imperative that veterinarians are knowledgeable advocates for animals' welfare. However, animal welfare has not been consistently integrated into veterinary sch…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the differences between hospital-acquired acute renal failure (HA-ARF) and community-acquired acute renal failure (CA-ARF) in epidemiology, etiology and prognosis. METHODS: The diagnosis of ARF of patients diagnosed with ARF from ICD-9 codes, who were discharged from Peking University Third H…