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AIM: To study, through the pathology diagnosis obtained, the current use of percutaneous liver biopsy and its change with time. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Pathology diagnosis of 759 liver biopsies performed during last 5 years are reviewed and compared with our previously published experience. RESULTS: Neoplasms have dec…

102 persons with pseudoexfoliation without glaucoma, not attending follow-up controls, underwent re-examination. The time elapsed since last control was greater than or equal to 5 years in 39%. In those with monocular pseudoexfoliation, 30% became binocularly affected. Only 3 persons had developed glaucoma (2.9%). Prob…

The public image of dentists and dental visits were surveyed in 1980 by interviewing a national sample of 648 Finns 15-50 years. 67 persons who reported having last visited a dentist more than 5 years ago were excluded from this report. 55% of the interviewees had visited the same dentists earlier, 69% of these had bee…

SUMMARY OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship between severe pneumonia during the first two years of life and subsequent respiratory infections in preschool children. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study. We interviewed parents of children who were classified as exposed (n = 36) or non-exposed (n = 84), bas…

Since the 1980s, lead levels decreased significantly in most marine biota from the Baltic Sea, the Kattegatt and the Skagerrack and in terrestrial biota from south and central Sweden, analysed in the National Swedish Environmental Monitoring Programme. In herring and cod liver, the decrease was 4.2-7.1% annually 1981-2…

Haemophilus influenzae is an infrequent etiologic agent of bacterial meningitis in adult patients. In the last 12 years, it was the cause in 12 out of 238 cases (5.0%) of acute bacterial meningitis in adults. There were 5 men and 7 women with a mean age (SD) of 45.4 (16) years (range: 18-68 years). Seven patients (60%)…

The full-term infants born during the leap year of 1988 in the obstetric-gynecological complex in the town of Dobrich were 2434, but the infants born according to the formula of Negele within the defined term--14 days were 2038. Most women were delivered of infants before the term. Standardization of parturients before…

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of asthma and respiratory symptoms in an urban population. MATERIAL: Eight hundred men and women aged 20-44 years, living in the capital Reykjavik and suburbs. METHODS: Participants answered a questionnaire, underwent skin prick testing for atopy, spirometry and a test for bronch…

The last few years has been a period of great change for the health service. A survey was undertaken to examine trends between 1976 and 1991 in the number of available beds within area health boards. Data collection included a survey of area health boards. The survey found that between 1976 and 1991 available beds decr…

Glaciation in the humid tropical Andes is a sensitive indicator of mean annual temperature. Here, we present sedimentological data from lakes beyond the glacial limit in the tropical Andes indicating that deglaciation from the Last Glacial Maximum led substantial warming at high northern latitudes. Deglaciation from gl…

Out of a total of 126 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, including 69 children aged less than 15 years, and 57 adults aged less than 60 years, who were treated with daunomycin (D.N.R.) initially and with several courses of reinduction, we noted 4 cases of decompensated heart failure (3.1%). 3 cases occurred in…

Disagreement still prevails over intraoperative diagnosis of papillitis as shown by the variability in incidence reported with a wide range of percentage. A study, concerning 2957 biliary operations for benign diseases has been carried out in order to analyse the incidence of papillary disorders. Two periods have been…

AIMS: Present pictures of epidemiology by leukemia from children from 0-15 years old during last five years. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In retrospective studies analyzing children of leucosis. This information's we have taken from history of illness. 67 children are worked out which are diagnosed and cured of leukemia in P…

Between 1968 and 1987, seventy children below the age of 14 years were treated at one institution for cerebellar medulloblastoma. There were 41 boys and 29 girls. The 70 children included one pair of siblings. All the children have been followed up by one of the authors. During the first ten years, postoperative mortal…

Based on a 20 years experience in the application of the pulmonary radiological control relying on radiophotography, the authors reached the following conclusions: -- 40% of subjects considered as suspect following radiophotography were confirmed to have pathological thoracic changes of which 8.5% with acitve pulmonary…

Epidemiological an mycological data of a 30 years long study on 366 cases of tinea manuum. A sudden raise on the last five years (249 cases). The mycosis is caused by T. rubrum (86%), mostly affects men (70%) among 11 and 40 years of age, on one hand (61%) and seldom both (21%). The course last 2 years in average. The…

The number of patients with burns, admitted to the hospital in Enarotali, Central highlands of Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia, markedly increased during the last years. Before 1973 only a few cases were hospitalized whereas from 1973 to 1976 157 cases were admitted. Most of the burns (74.5%) were classified as third…

Paleomagnetic data from 89 equatorial deep-sea sediment cores indicate that the configuration of the time-averaged geomagnetic field depends strongly on polarity state but that it remains within 1 degree of axial symmery throughout the Pliocene and Pleistocene (last 5 million years). The relative magnitude of the nondi…

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the actual status of environmental and oral health conditions prior to and at the first visit of the outpatients who visited the pedodontics clinic of Tohoku University Dental Hospital during the period from April 1981 to May 1986, and to compare them with the results of the…

Immunity to tetanus of 231 girls from Genoa, attending the last class of elementary school (average age 10) have been studied. According to the vaccination tables of the Public Health Service, these girls received a minimum of 4 to a maximum of 9 inoculations of vaccine (Diphtheria-Tetanus toxoid). The antitoxic antibo…