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The Authors review the literature on the occurrence of multiple sclerosis in children and add 14 personal cases below the age of 15.5 years, the youngest being 6.4 years old. Modality of onset, clinical course, clinical classification according to the criteria proposed by McDonald and Halliday, paraclinical evidence of…

Long-term treatment with testosterone oenanthate in seven healthy young men was conducted with the aim of inducing reversible inhibition of spermatogenesis. During the observation period following discontinuation of the therapy spermatogenesis showed a gradual recovery. In three cases, however, the sperm counts did not…

A follow-up study of 48 patients with Reiter's syndrome was carried out in an attempt to clarify the clinical course of the disease. The mean age at the onset of Reiter's syndrome was 27.1 years (range 15 to 52 years) and when seen at follow-up 32.5 years (range 19 to 58 years). The average time from the onset of the f…

AIM: A modified Barcat operation, when carried out properly, provides an anatomically and cosmetically successful result in distal hypospadias repair in each glans configuration. We retrospectively evaluated our experience with this technique in the last five years. PATIENTS AND METHODS: 78 children with primary dista…

Of 400 patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma who were treated at Nagoya University Hospital from 1977 to 2004, 301 (75%) underwent surgical resection. Most patients underwent major hepatectomy with extrahepatic bile duct resection. The overall mortality rate was 7.6% but had decreased to 2.5% in the last 5 years (p=0.…

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective review of prospectively collected data. OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship between cervical sagittal balance and adjacent segment degeneration (ASD) development after 3-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: ASD is a common complication afte…

A statistical evaluation of the individual monitoring of occupationally exposed workers in the Policlinico Universitario of Messina during the years 1975 divided by 1984 is presented. Collective dose equivalent, average dose equivalent pro capite, ratio of the fraction of the collective dose due to annual doses above 1…

Fourteen patients with priapism have been treated over the last 12 years. Two patients had a recurrence 2 and 5 years after the primary incident. Abuse of alcohol (often combined with psychotropic drugs) and the use of antihypertensive drugs were the most prominent aetiological factors. Three out of 9 patients treated…

Authors on the base of the study of clinical history and autopsy protocols of 260 patients died in 1974 in the Institute of Oncology of Hungary from oncological diseases established, that the proportion of decised younger 30 years and the number of those older 70 years increased in comparison with 1964. In the autopsy…

OBJECTIVE: Pediatric intracranial aneurysms are rare. Most large series in the last 15 years reported on an average of only 39 patients. The authors sought to report their institutional experience with pediatric intracranial aneurysms from 1991 to 2021 and to compare pediatric patient and aneurysm characteristics with…

BACKGROUND: It is unclear what degree of change in the eGFR over a 1-year period indicates clinically significant progression, and whether this change adds additional information beyond that obtained by a single eGFR measure alone. METHODS: We included 598 397 adults who had at least two outpatient eGFR measurements (…

OBJECTIVE: Investigate lifetime survival of dogs with portosystemic vascular anomalies (PSVA) fed copper (Cu)-restricted liver diets (0.10 to 0.12 mg of Cu/100 kcal, below National Research Council and Association of American Feed Control Officials thresholds) with different managerial strategies (complete ligation, pa…

OBJECTIVE: To assess temporal trends of in-hospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) enrolled in the Swiss nationwide registry (AMIS Plus) over the last 20 years with regard to gender, age and in-hospital treatment. METHODS: All patients with AMI from 1997 to 2016 were stratified according…

BACKGROUND: Hodgkin disease rarely presents as an osseous lesion, and the majority of patients are found at staging to have concurrent disease in lymph nodes. Many cases of osseous Hodgkin disease have been misdiagnosed on initial biopsy. METHODS: All cases of Hodgkin disease diagnosed by open bone biopsy at the Mayo…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The concept of 'brain-body cross-talking' has gained growing interest in the last years. The understanding of the metabolic disturbances (e.g., hypernatraemia/hyponatraemia and hyperlactatemia) in neurosurgical patients has improved during the last years. RECENT FINDINGS: The impact of elevated lact…

Melasma is an acquired pigmentary disorder characterized by symmetrical hyperpigmented macules on the face. Its pathogenesis is complex and involves the interplay of various factors such as genetic predisposition, ultraviolet radiation, hormonal factors, and drugs. An insight into the pathogenesis is important to devis…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To critically examine the mortality rates of septic shock over the last 25 years to determine if significant improvements have been accomplished. RECENT FINDINGS: A gradual and progressive improvement in mortality rates associated with septic shock has been realized over the few decades. These impro…

The development of nutrition and the knowledge of metabolism has increased exponentially during the last decades since the start of ESPEN. This article, based on the Arvid Wretlind lecture 2003 in Cannes, describes important historical and modern landmarks in the field. The presentation also highlights the important co…

Medical ultrasound has during the last decades experienced enormous technological progress, and in obstetrics and gynaecology it has become an integral part of the clinical work. Within the last years several new ultrasound techniques have appeared. Three-dimensional ultrasound scanning (3DUS), in which there has been…

Data are submitted from the published literature and the authors' observations on causation of pericarditis and transformation of its patterns over the last 24 years. The paper is based on the analysis of 325 patients having been operated on for constrictive pericarditis during the period 1974-1998. Over the last 12 ye…