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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Twenty patients with discrete subaortic stenosis were studied during last 11 years. Cross sectional echocardiography and angiography demonstrated a membrane in 17 (85%), fibromuscullar collar in 2 (10%), and diffuse tunnel type of obstruction in 1 (5%) patient. Eighty five percent of patients had severe obstruction wit…

Between 1973 and 1986, 141 patients with esophageal carcinoma have been operated. The overall resection rate was 59% (83/141). We preferred the operative resection by abdominal and right-sided thoracic approach. Only in 4 patients with generally high risk an abdomino-cervical blind dissection of the esophagus was perfo…

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…

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…

Following the last compensatory epidemic of scarlet fever in 1995 the number of cases decreased, although the decrease rate was low. In 1999 the incidence rate for the entire country was 25.1 per 100,000 (range from 11.5 to 38.6 in different voivodeships). Incidence in urban areas was 92% higher than in rural areas. Tw…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…