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INTRODUCTION: colon lymphoma (CL) is an uncommon variety of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that represents less than 0.6% of all primary colonic neoplasms. Early diagnosis is challenging as clinical manifestations are non-specific. The goal of this review was to discuss our experience over the last few years regarding the…

BACKGROUND: Gait and function may deteriorate with time in patients with spastic diplegia. Single-event multilevel surgery often is performed to either improve gait or prevent deterioration. However it is unclear whether the presumed gait improvements are durable. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES: We therefore determined whether (1…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the outcome of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for patients with benign skull base tumors and trigeminal-related facial pain. METHODS: We undertook a retrospective review of 31 consecutive patients (25 women, 6 men) with benign skull base tumors and trigeminal pain who underwent SRS between 1991 a…

OBJECTIVES: A cross-sectional study over a period of 30 years was used to investigate the development of overweight and obesity in school children. Of particular interest is the question of whether the overweight epidemic is continuing to increase, as often postulated, or whether a stagnation point or the start of a re…

INTRODUCTION: The major advances in neonatal intensive care have made less useful the Waterston's criteria for esophageal atresia (EA) and/or tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF), and other prognostic classifications have been reported. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of various parameters on the outcom…

Thirty-four girls with precocious puberty (27 idiopathic, 6 cerebral, 1 McCune-Albright syndrome) were treated with cyproterone acetate (CPA) for 1.2-8.4 years (3.71 +/- 0.31; mean +/- SEM) at a daily dosage of 66-150 mg/m2 (103.7 +/- 6.2). The mean chronological age (CA) and bone age at the beginning of treatment were…

(1) Background: The aim of this research was to analyze factors associated with quality of life (QoL) and marital satisfaction in married family caregivers of patients with mental disorders. (2) Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in all community mental health services in Goiania municipality, Brazil, in 20…

BACKGROUND: Countrywide 5.9 million, 0-11 Month old children are immunized annually by EPI (Expended Program on Immunization) against 8 vaccine preventable diseases including measles and so on. Unfortunately the basic immunity centers are not uniform throughout the country. Each center provides services to about 27000…

During the past 10 years the authors have treated 17 patients on their department because of got stuck or injury-causing rectal foreign bodies. In 12 cases swallowed, in 3 cases "per anum"-placed up foreign bodies were observed, in 2 cases penetrating anorectal injury caused by the foreign body. In 9 cases after succes…

During the last 5 years a continuous increase of the number of intoxications with the analgesic paracetamol has been realized. Most cases were due to attempted suicides whereas few cases resulted from accidental overdosing to small children. In the latter case two to threefold overdoses often caused serious intoxicatio…

This study examined the efficiency of walking with a backpack load as a method for improving physical fitness. Forty-four subjects (average age, 18.8 years) marched at a speed of 5 km/hr for 30 minutes a day, five days a week. Thirty-two subjects walked for 3 weeks with a 3-kg backpack load; 6 subjects marched for 4 we…

BACKGROUND: In surgical correction of adult spinal deformity (ASD), pelvic incidence (PI)-lumbar lordosis (LL) plays a key role to restore normal sagittal alignment. Recently, it has been found that postoperative lordosis morphology act as an important factor in preventing mechanical complications. However, there have…

Discovery of prognostic and diagnostic biomarker gene signatures for diseases, such as cancer, is seen as a major step towards a better personalized medicine. During the last decade various methods, mainly coming from the machine learning or statistical domain, have been proposed for that purpose. However, one importan…

Progress in colorectal surgery over the last few years is evident by the growing number of randomised controlled trials reported. We have scrutinised such trials reported over the last year across the entire spectrum of colorectal disease and have presented the significant findings in this trials report.

A questionnaire probing various aspects of the termination of the physician-patient relationship was distributed to 200 consecutive patients during the last weeks of the author's private practice. The response rate was 89%. Although two thirds of the patients had already heard of the author's planned departure, only 25…

Auditory evoked potentials were recorded in 28 euthymic patients with affective psychosis who had received lithium prophylaxis for at least 5 years. Binaural clicks at 4 intensities were presented in randomized order via headphones. Potentials were recorded from Cz, C3, and C4 referenced to linked mastoid electrodes. N…

One of the most exciting developments to come to the aid of the critically ill patient in recent years is not new at all, but rather has been repackaged and evolved to a level where point-of-care use by critical care physicians has been made possible. Critical care or point-of-care ultrasound dates back more than twent…

We report our experience over the last seventeen years (1985-2002) of the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children at the University of Liege Pediatric Department of Hematogy-Oncology (CHU-Sart Tilman and CHR-Citadelle). Seventy seven children are enrolled in our study; the mean follow-up is 6.7 year…

Over 10 years 1296 patients with an uncomplicated form of varicose disease were treated with compressive sclerotherapy before surgery. Sclerotherapy was performed as the first stage of complex treatment in combination with various surgeries. Over the last 5 years Doppler ultrasound study and coloured angioscanning were…

: Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) is a chronic condition characterized by persistent bladder-related pain and urinary symptoms, often refractory to conventional treatments. Sacral neuromodulation (SNM) has emerged as a promising therapeutic option for managing refractory IC/BPS.: This retrospective…