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OBJECTIVE: To observe the curative effects of vertebral laminae reconstruction after laminectomy and pedicle screw fixation for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis in early (at the 3rd months after operation) and metaphase (at the more than 1 year after operation). METHODS: Twenty-two patients with lumbar spinal s…

In 65 cases of benign epilepsy of childhood with controtemporal EEG, 15 were followed-up for 5-7 years, 27 were 8-9 years and 23 were 10-14 years. Last seizure happened 4-14 years ago. Their present age ranged from 14 to 23 years. The disease was not related to sex but negatively correlated to age when first seizure oc…

To investigate the relapse rate in patients with bronchial asthma remission, a questionnaire study was performed. The answer sheets from 450 of 865 patients who first visited Saitama Medical School Hospital before the age of 16 were obtained. 281 patients had been in asthma remission more than one year after the last t…

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…

Hickmott, LM, Bristol, AR, Davidson, CE, Chaudry, A, Ko, J, Butcher, SJ, and Chilibeck, PD. A Comparison of fixed percentage of One-Repetition Maximum, rating of perceived exertion, and last repetition velocity-based training load prescription on muscular adaptations in older adults. J Strength Cond Res XX(X): 000-000,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The authors are reporting their surgical experience of the early gastric carcinoma (EGC). In the last twenty-one years, 48 patients with 54 EGC were operated on: 30 men and 18 women. The proportion of early gastric carcinoma (EGC) among treated gastric carcinoma which was 8% during the first period has risen to 12.5% d…

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…

In the symposium on 'Changes in the disease picture of pulmonary tuberculosis', the themes mentioned above were discussed. Dr. Ohmori analyzed the present state of the epidemiology of tuberculosis in Japan. The stagnation in the decline of incidence rate of tuberculosis has been observed from the end of the 1970's. It…

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…

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 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…

Operative mortality for critical aortic stenosis in newborn having been reported as high as 20-80%, the percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty is looked upon as an alternative therapy. We elected to review our surgical experience in the last 25 years before changing our therapeutic approach. Among 37 infants included in the…

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…

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…

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 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…