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Macroscopic anatomy of the brain is scheduled during the last meeting of the Short Course of Dissection, an optional course for second-year medical students at the School of Medicine of Padova, following the official 44 h of lectures of Neuroanatomy. The aim of the present study was to ascertain the value of brain diss…

OBJECTIVE: Striking geographic variation and marked increasing secular trends characterize the incidence of testicular cancer. However, it is not known whether these patterns have attenuated in recent years and whether they are similar for seminomas and nonseminomas, the two main histologic groups of testicular cancer.…

BACKGROUND: Acute appendicitis is the most frequent cause of surgical emergency in pediatric age. The aim of this study has been to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a scoring system, retrospectively applied, to the clinical and laboratory parameters in patients with acute appendicitis. METHODS: A group of 156 patie…

Over the last decade, the use of rigid endoscopes in surgery of tumorous lesions of the nose, paranasal sinuses, nasopharynx and anterior skull base has extended and diversified. Endoscopic surgical approaches for malignant lesions are very controversially discussed as of today, yet. From 1989-1999 we have treated 43 p…

BACKGROUND: Neuroendoscopic third ventriculostomy has increased in frequency for the management of hydrocephalus. The objective of this paper is to study the outcome in patients with hydrocephalus whose shunt subsequently failed and who were treated with neuroendoscopic third ventriculostomy (NTV). METHOD: The departm…

BACKGROUND: Infective endocarditis is a severe cardiac infection disease with high morbidity and mortality, remained largely unchanged over the past 2 decades with an increased incidence in the last years. STUDY QUESTION: Was to evaluate the main causes of increased incidence and antibiotic resistance and the role of…

In 1917, a food chemist named James Currie made a promising discovery: any strain of the filamentous mouldwould produce high concentrations of citric acid when grown in sugar medium. This tricarboxylic acid, which we now know is an intermediate of the Krebs cycle, had previously been extracted from citrus fruits for ap…

During the last few years, there has been relevant progress in both understanding and managing urolithiasis. Our knowledge of stone formation has changed; although the importance of urine biochemistry was questioned by several investigators years ago, the decisive role of cellular processes (induced by oxidative stress…

A case of lymphocytic hypophysitis is described in a patient presenting with panhypopituitarism 8 years after her last childbirth. The patient developed headache, vomiting, and diplopia (due to palsy of the right lateral rectus muscle) 7 months after delivery of her last baby. The diplopia disappeared after a few days…

With increasing environmental concerns, the need for environmentally friendly organic synthesis has gained increased importance. In this regard, bismuth(III) compounds are especially attractive as "green" reagents and catalysts for organic synthesis. Bismuth(III) compounds are remarkably nontoxic, relatively air and mo…

68 mean values of airborne shift concentration of total dust were measured at 9 factories of woodworking industries. The values varied from 0.18 to 59.3 mg/m3 for area sampling. But at 63% of the woodworking machines with exhaustion the area sampling shift concentration of total dust reached fewer values than 5 mg/m3.…

In the last 5 years there has been an extraordinary increase in negligence actions against South Australian ophthalmologists. This paper considers the reasons, in particular those changes in the interpretation of the law which have made doctors vulnerable. Medical practice needs to be modified if doctors, especially su…

The operation of transposition of tibialis posterior into tibialis anterior is indicated in irreparable lesions of the peroneal nerve. The authors present a critical review of 16 cases submitted to this operation during the last 5 years using the Barr technique. This is described in detail. Evaluation of the overall re…

Fifty-seven cases of gastric carcinoma seen at Hubbard Hospital of Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, between 1956 and 1980 are reviewed. There has been no change in the survival rates in this group from the results for patients treated for gastric carcinoma over the last 25 years. The overall five-year sur…

From 1961 to 1973 416 Coxsackie viruses were isolated, most of the isolations (303) being done in the last 5 years. Most of the isolates belong to a group A, with a predominance of types A6 and A8. Many variations were observed in strains belonging to the same type, as concerns their isolation in human embryo cell cult…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence of orofacial pain and associated factors in Chinese older adults at the end of life. METHODS: This cross-sectional study included 1646 participants (65 years or older) in their last year of life from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS). We used the 6-mont…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the mid-term effectiveness of rotating hinge knee prosthesis for severe knee deformity. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was made on the clinical data of 24 patients (24 knees) who received rotating hinge knee prosthesis for total knee arthroplasty between January 2003 and June 2011. There were…

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the differences in neuromuscular activation of agonist and antagonist muscles between men and prepubertal boys during a maximal isokinetic fatigue test. Ten prepubertal boys (mean +/- SD age: 10.5 +/- 0.6 years) and fourteen adults (age: 24.3 +/- 2.5 years) executed 2…

UNLABELLED: At the rehabilitation hospital of Visegrád between 1996-2003 there were altogether 7 patients suffering from short bowel syndrome, 6 of them in the last 2 years. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate 2 cases of long-term total parental nutrition. One of the patients is a 60 year-old man, in whom…

The prevalence and severity of asthma, rhinitis and eczema in Kelantanese schoolchildren were determined as part of an international study of the epidemiology of asthma and allergic diseases. The international study of asthma and allergies in childhood (ISAAC) written questionnaire was administered to 7055 schoolchildr…