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The aim of this study is to expose the change in the access to thyroid gland operations during last 10-15 years when increasing radicality of the operations means any more specific complications in condition of routine detection and visualisation of recurrent laryngeal nerve and sparing of parathyroid glands. Authors a…

UNLABELLED: Papillary cystic neoplasm is a rare tumor and is usually found in young female patients. PROCEDURE: Here we describe a rare case of PCN in 16 year old girl, which was presented with abdominal pain in last 3 years. Preoperative diagnosis was suggested by ECHO and CT of the abdomen. The sonographic examinati…

A 5-year-old boy living in a small camp in the rural Ivory Coast had a disease resembling smallpox. This occurred 4 years after smallpox had been eradicated from the Ivory Coast and 1.5 years after the last case of smallpox was detected in West and Central Africa. Clinical, serological, and epidemiological evidence ind…

Sexuality is often bound together with sexual function in contemporary sexual health literature; however, sexuality is a multidimensional phenomenon that has a broader historical concept and cultural meaning. In addition to a significant global decline in sexual function, women may experience decline in emotional satis…

During the follow-up of 32,448 patients with food poisoning and salmonellosis complications occurred in 665 (2.01%). Among them were general circulation disorders (shock), myocardial infarction, acute cerebral vascular accidents, mesenterial thromboembolism, pneumonia, acute renal failure (0.09, 0.4, 0.4, 0.1, 0.5 and…

Emergency surgery of the esophagus is undertaken in acute diseases and injuries to the esophagus: among 926 cases of acute pathology of the esophagus 709 were mechanical ruptures of its wall, 380 z (53.6%) of an instrumental character. A rational therapeutic tactics developed at the Institute and basically new methods…

A 3.5-year-old boy presented twice within 36 hours to an emergency department with worsening abdominal distress. At surgery, an isolated axial volvulus of a Meckel's diverticulum was found. This finding has been reported three times in the last 20 years and has involved only adult patients. Meckel's diverticulum, altho…

In the last 16 years only 18 cases of this kind could be observed in the Paediatric-surgical clinic of Leipzig (GDR). Genuine dislocations without a concomitant fracture happened in 5 cases. They were treated conservatively in the same way as 8 juxtaarticular fractures. 5 considerable dislocated fractures were treated…

Since 1978 and 1979, California has had a significantly higher frequency of moderate to large earthquakes than in the preceding 25 years. In the past such periods have also been associated with major destructive earthquakes, of magnitude 7 or greater, and the annual probability of occurrence of such an event is now 13…

In the dental profession, the percentage of women has not changed appreciably over the last 50 years. Today, about 3.5% of the nation's dentists are women. In 1920, 3% of the dentists in this country were women. This review will examine some of the issues as they pertain to women in dentistry and as they refer to these…

Survival of patients with metastatic pheochromocytoma that have exceeded 30 years without therapy to reduce tumors have been reported. We reviewed the records of 38 patients with malignant pheochromocytoma who had received 131I-metaiodiobenzylguanidine (131I-MIBG) treatments between 1981 and 1996 to evaluate longevity.…

This study investigated treatment characteristics of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) in a real-world setting between 2000 and 2019. We analyzed clinical improvement between nadir and last follow-up in patients with severe GBS (defined as having a GBS disability scale > 2 at nadir) and aimed to detect c…

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Little is known about the risk factors of suicide mortality among multiple attempters. This study aims to investigate the predictors of suicidal mortality in a prospective cohort of attempters in Taiwan, focusing on the time interval and suicide method change between the last two nonfatal attempts.…

Lucerne (L.) is the second most significant winter leguminous fodder crop after berseem in India. Breeder seed (BS) is the first stage of the seed production chain, as it is the base material for producing foundation and certified seeds. In India, lucerne BS demand has been reduced by 85.58% during the last 24 years (1…

OBJECTIVE: To examine age, gender, race, and area income differences in Medicare expenditures in the 3 years before death. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS: A random sample of aged Medicare beneficiaries who died 1996 to 1999, N = 241,047. MEASURES: We estimate differences in mean Medicare expenditures by…

Prostate cancer (PC) is one of the most widespread tumors affecting the urinary system and the fifth-leading cause from cancer death in men worldwide. Despite PC mortality rates have been decreasing during the last years, most likely due to an intensification of early diagnosis, still more than 300,000 men die each yea…

IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD: Fermentation-derived natural products have been a traditional source of antibiotics and antibiotic leads. Most of these discoveries were made about 50 years ago and continue to serve as leads for new antibiotics even today; however, their value as leads for new antibiotics is slowly fading away…

Awareness of the importance of chronic adult hydrocephalus has been raised again with the recent emergence of epidemiological studies. It is estimated that between 5 and 10% of patients suffering from dementia might, in fact, have chronic hydrocephalus. Although, surgical diversion of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) repr…

Developments in thyroid surgery during the last 20 years have reduced the number of complications significantly with rates from the literature of less than 1 % of laryngeal nerve paralysis and hypoparathyroidism. Specific problems are connected, however, with patients presenting with recurrent goitres, requiring extend…

BACKGROUND: Acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) has been a major focus of interest in Japan in the last 2 decades. A remarkable improvement recently made in the prognosis of ALM at our institution may possibly be explained by early detection including melanoma in situ. OBJECTIVE: We have retrospectively studied 44 cases…