98,308 papers found

OBJECTIVE: To assess whether reproductive factors are associated with mortality after breast cancer diagnosis. METHODS: We followed up 4,299 U.S. women enrolled between 1980 and 1982 at ages 20-54 years as incident breast cancer cases in a population-based, case-control study, the Cancer and Steroid Hormone Study. Vit…

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Norway has the highest reported incidence of hip fractures in western Europe. Little is known about the epidemiology of falls in Norway where the winter season is long and dark. The objective of this work was to study reported falls and their consequences among elderly Norwegians living at home.…

OBJECTIVE: This study evaluates the distribution of authorship by sex over the last 10 years among the top 25 surgical journals. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Despite an increase in women entering surgical residency, there remains a sex disparity in surgical leadership. Scholarly activity is the foundation for academic…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of modified high tibial osteotomy combined with platelet-rich plasma in the treatment of moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis. METHODS: From January 2021 to March 2022, the clinical data of 60 patients with moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis admitted to the Third Affi…

Reproductive factors associated with breast cancer risk may also affect the prognosis. This study aimed to evaluate the associations of multiple reproductive factors with breast cancer prognosis and the modifying effects of menopausal status. We obtained data from 3805 breast cancer patients recruited between October 2…

PURPOSE: This study is to compare the clinical and radiographic results of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction with four-stranded autogenous hamstring tendon and two-stranded free tendon Achilles allograft fixed with EndoButton in the femoral tunnel and Intrafix in the tibial tunnel. MATERIALS AND METHODS:…

A more distinct histopathological classification of pancreatic tumours has been developed during the last years. However, up to now the preoperative diagnostic tools are not able to predict sufficiently the kind of the tumour, particularly the differentiation between benign and malignant. This is the prior condition fo…

The aim of the survey is to bring forward the relationship structure-function-pathology of the great omentum from the surgical point of view. The common origin (similar) with that of the spleen and the structural particularities give the great omentum distinct responding potentialities in pathology and these have chall…

Over the last years, there has been an explosion in the number of developments and applications of CE and microchip-CE. In part, this growth has been the direct consequence of recent developments in instrumentation associated with CE. This review, which is focused on the contributions published in the last 5 years, is…

Laparoscopic colon and rectal surgery has gained popularity over the last 10 years. The experience obtained from the more simple surgeries, such as cholecystectomy and appendectomy, and the development of better instruments have made colorectal standard laparoscopic surgery an easier procedure. However, the downside as…

A personal series of 354 abdominal aortic aneurysmectomies has been analyzed, consisting of 67 in 1961-1969, 152 in 1970-1975 and 135 in 1976-1980. Mean age has increased to 68.1 years with 81% over 60. Aneurysm size and associated diseases have remained constant. Operative mortality for non-ruptured aneurysms has decr…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the postoperative refraction of intended undercorrection after intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in pediatric cataract patients. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study (data collected by retrospective chart review). PATIENTS AND METHODS: The medical records of children aged under 10 years, who underwe…

We studied the practice of screening for breast and uterine cervix cancer in Torino where, currently, no kind of organized program exists and two projects of population screening programs, based on pap smear and mammography, have been developed. Fifty-two percent (95% confidence limits (C.L.): 47%-58%) of women 18-69 y…

BACKGROUND: Understanding patterns of health care use in the last year of life is critical in health services planning. AIM: To describe hospital-based service and palliative care use in hospital in the year preceding death for patients who died of heart failure or cardiomyopathy in Queensland from 2008 to 2018 and ha…

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Therapeutic stretching of the calf muscle-tendon unit is used to increase its length and to ameliorate decreased dorsiflexion range of motion (ROM), but the influence of age on the passive properties of the calf muscle-tendon unit has not been studied adequately The purpose of this study was to…

The instantaneous prevalence of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis has been evaluated; the patients were included in the dispensarization group I between 1974 and 1980. Initially there was a decrease of the prevalence of the patients in Group I B but over the last years this was stable at 11.7-13.5 0/0000 inhabitants…

INTRODUCTION: Generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) is a rare and severe form of psoriasis. Diagnosis involves several steps due to its rarity and the similarity to other pustular skin conditions. There is a lack of standardized guidelines for managing patients. The objective of this survey was to understand how Brazili…

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to assess the long term results (minimum of 3 years) of radiofrequency catheter ablation in patients with common (slow-fast) atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Sixty consecutive patients (mean age 56 +/- 16 years, range 14 to 83, 16 men and 44 wo…

PURPOSE: To evaluate whether fresh-frozen meniscal allograft shrinkage occurs only during the first year of the early remodeling period or progresses over the delayed period of midterm years and to determine whether these changes were associated with certain clinical and radiologic outcomes. METHODS: We retrospectivel…

BACKGROUND: Severely incurved toenails are accompanied by deformity of the toenail growth plate. In such a condition, partial removal of the nail and nail bed and simple unfolding of the nail itself frequently result in the recurrence of symptoms. We sought to design and develop a new technique for the treatment of inc…