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This study recorded the number of preclinical lecture and simulation laboratory sessions spent teaching the preparation and placement of amalgam and resin composite posterior restorations. These data were compared to the use of both materials in the operative clinic as placed by third- and fourth-year students. The num…

A study of 2377 cases of haemorrhage from the upper gastrointestinal tract shows a significant fall in mortality rate--from 15.5% in the period of retrospective study from 1961 to 1970 to 7% in the prospective study from 1972 to 1982. The fall in mortality rate from non-variceal bleeding was from 12.8% to 5%. In the se…

AIM AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was retrospective comparative evaluation of past 3 years' pediatric oral lesions diagnosed from the Department of Dentistry, UPUMS, Saifai, Etawah, and classification and identification of pediatric oral lesions on the basis of demographic features and histopathological features…

In France, people with intellectual disability (ID) account approximately for 2.5 % of the total population. Life expectancy of ID increased over the last years, and this raised the risk of cancers developing in this group of patients. Overall, the prevalence of cancers for those patients is much like that of the gener…

Pleural effusions are an extremely common problem affecting approximately 1.5 million people in the United States each year. Over the last several years, the use of portable ultrasound machines has greatly enhanced the evaluation and management of patients with pleural disease. This article will review the relevant lit…

Sera of 500 female blood donors after pregnancy were tested for platelet-specific antibodies (HPA-1, 3, 5) using the MAIPA assay. Twenty-one sera (4.2%) were found to be positive: four anti-HPA-1a, one anti-HPA-5a and 16 anti-HPA-5b. Sera were positive up to 30 years after the last pregnancy. All women with antibodies…

The indications for transformation surgery for transsexuals cannot be defined at one single examination; they gradually become apparent over a period of long-term care lasting a minimum of 1.5 years, beginning with the first contact with the therapist and ending with surgery. Patients who have been well prepared for th…

During the follow-up of 32,448 patients with food poisoning and salmonellosis complications occurred in 665 (2.01%). Among them were general circulation disorders (shock), myocardial infarction, acute cerebral vascular accidents, mesenterial thromboembolism, pneumonia, acute renal failure (0.09, 0.4, 0.4, 0.1, 0.5 and…

Emergency surgery of the esophagus is undertaken in acute diseases and injuries to the esophagus: among 926 cases of acute pathology of the esophagus 709 were mechanical ruptures of its wall, 380 z (53.6%) of an instrumental character. A rational therapeutic tactics developed at the Institute and basically new methods…

A 3.5-year-old boy presented twice within 36 hours to an emergency department with worsening abdominal distress. At surgery, an isolated axial volvulus of a Meckel's diverticulum was found. This finding has been reported three times in the last 20 years and has involved only adult patients. Meckel's diverticulum, altho…

In the dental profession, the percentage of women has not changed appreciably over the last 50 years. Today, about 3.5% of the nation's dentists are women. In 1920, 3% of the dentists in this country were women. This review will examine some of the issues as they pertain to women in dentistry and as they refer to these…

A 14-year-old boy was seen on August 17, 1962, with a vesicular eruption of five days' duration. The vesicles were about 0.5 cm. in diameter, loculated, mainly distributed centrifugally, and all were at the same stage of development. On August 8, he left his residence in a rural area of southern Brazil where alastrim i…

INTRODUCTION: The boom in surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia using Holmium laser enucleation (HoLEP) has reduced length of hospitalization, catheterization duration and the risk of bleeding, with comparable results to the old gold standard. The aim of this study is to evaluate the evolution of medium-term functio…

BACKGROUND: The African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control has proposed provisional thresholds for the prevalence of microfilariae in humans and of L3 larvae in blackflies, below which mass drug administration (MDA) with ivermectin can be stopped and surveillance started. Skin snips are currently the gold standard te…

AIMS: Teeth loss represents a major concern for the global oral health status of a population. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of teeth extraction among the Italian adult population, analyzing the association between teeth extraction in the last 12 months and socio-demographic characteristics. MET…

The objectives of this study were to establish standards for growth and to model the evolution of wither height (WH) between birth and adult age in different breeds of sport- and race-horses. Therefore, 398 foals, then yearlings of three different breeds, were measured regularly between birth and 18 months of age. Line…

During the past 22 years, the operability rate has been 62.2% for patients 60 years or older, with cancer of the cardia (319/475). The resectability rate has been 66.2% (211/319). Proximal resection of the stomach with resection of the lower third of the esophagus was performed on 156 patients, and gastrectomy on 65. D…

We updated trends in breast cancer mortality in Europe up to the late 2000's. In the EU, age-adjusted (world standard population) breast cancer mortality rates declined by 6.9% between 2002 and 2006, from 17.9 to 16.7/100,000. The largest falls were in northern European countries, but more recent declines were also obs…

One case of isolated traumatic dislocation of the radial head in a 59-years-old female secondary to an injury in pronation and extension of the non dominant left elbow is reported. Treatment consisted of immediate closed reduction followed by immobilisation in a plaster cast with the elbow flexed at 110 degrees, for 10…

BACKGROUND: Physical and psychological disorders in adolescence may lead to specific food behaviours. The aim of this work was to make a group of adolescents full actors of the conception and realization of a study on their food consumption and attitudes. POPULATION AND METHODS: Seventeen self-selected adolescents (ag…