98,317 papers found

Infection and refractoriness to platelet transfusion, as complications in hematopoietic malignancy therapy, were investigated. The Hanshin Study Group of Hematopoietic Disorders and Infection treated with 3,346 cases of bacterial infection (7.8% sepsis, 71% sepsis suspected, 13.7% respiratory infection) during the past…

Of 1647 women in confinement (mean age 26years) and 185 students nurses (mean age 18 years), the majority wanted two children. 8% of the women in confinement and 2% of the student nurses had received no previous family planning information, whereas 38% of the women in confinement and 81% of the student nurses had pract…

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the occurrence of and associations between upper respiratory tract infections in preschool children, and to assess constitutional and environmental factors as determinants of these infections. DESIGN: Population-based cross-sectional study. SETTING: Oslo, Norway. PARTICIPANTS: Preschool child…

For cosmetic purposes, it is possible to perform an elective cholecystectomy through a transverse incision of no more than 5 cm. Access is obtained lengthwise through the rectus abdominis. Bleeding must be strictly controlled and cholecystectomy must be performed with great care. Before the operation, it is necessary t…

BACKGROUND: Medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) reconstruction has become an accepted technique to treat patellofemoral instability, and numerous surgical techniques have been described to reconstruct the MPFL. We describe a MPFL reconstruction procedure where bone-fascia tunnel fixation occurs at the medial margin o…

OBJECTIVE: Craniopharyngiomas (CP) are rare malformational tumors. Clinical presentation and outcome of pediatric patients with CP with specific regard to age at diagnosis is not clear. The aim of this cohort study was to determine clinical presentation and outcome in these patients diagnosed at different ages at diagn…

Although new treatments have been widely studied to improve the survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer (BC), prognosis continues to be poor with an average survival time no longer than 3 years. We carried on a population-based study with the purpose of evaluating the outcome of metastatic breast cancer in t…

The incidence of 16 cerebellar medulloblastoma admitted to the University Hospital of Leuven during the last 8 years shows a seasonal peak between September and December.

Over the last 100 years, many studies have been performed to determine the biochemical and histopathological phenomena that mark the origin of neoplasms. At the end of the last century, the leading paradigm, which is currently well rooted, considered the origin of neoplasms to be a set of genetic and/or epigenetic muta…

OBJECTIVES: The study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of cervical cancer prophylactics by identification of the time of last cervical cytological examination as well as by recognition of frequency of repeated cervical cytological examinations and reimbursement for the examination costs in representative samp…

Recrudescent pulmonary melioidosis developed in two patients 12 and 16 years after their last travels to an endemic area. In one, a clinically silent prostatic abscess may have been the focus; and in both, the diagnosis was difficult to make even when the laboratory was notified of the possibility of infection with Pse…

INTRODUCTION: The need of current data on the epidemiology of caries of the primary teeth in 3- and 8-year-old children and establishing the trends in the prevalence of this disease in the last 18 years in Plovdiv determines the aim of the study. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study includes 1124 children--536 girls and 58…

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus as a typical arbovirus relies on two types of hosts for its survival: ticks act both as virus vectors and reservoir hosts, and vertebrates amplify the virus infection by acting as a source of infection for feeding ticks. Longitudinal monitoring of TBE virus in ticks and vertebrate ho…

206 patients with spina bifida were followed up during the last 20 years; they were examined from the pediatric, neurosurgical, urological and orthopedic point of view. Evaluation of the intellectual development was also performed. Most of the 92 children of the first group were born after Lorber in 1971 proposed a sel…

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether patients who remain symptomatic more than a year following idiopathic facial paralysis gain benefit from tailored facial physiotherapy. METHODS: A two-year retrospective review was conducted of all symptomatic patients. Data collected included: age, gender, duration of sympto…

AIM: Few studies have examined the role of physiological characteristics of soccer teams in the finishing position in the league. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether there are differences in anthropometric characteristics, endurance, isokinetic peak torque, vertical jump height among professiona…