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OBJECTIVE: To explore the effectiveness of anterior cervical plate internal fixation in the treatment of unstable Hangman fracture. METHODS: Between May 2006 and May 2010, 42 patients with unstable Hangman fracture were treated by anterior cervical plate internal fixation. There were 30 males and 12 females with an av…

Growth differentiation 15 (GDF15) is a potential novel biomarker of biological aging. To separate the effects of chronological age and birth cohort from biological age, longitudinal studies investigating the associations of GDF15 levels with adverse health outcomes are needed. We investigated changes in GDF15 levels ov…

A retrospective study was undertaken of all cases of death in adults (>16 years) due to electrocution which were autopsied at Forensic Science SA, Adelaide, Australia, over a 30-year period from 1973 to 2002. A total of 96 cases were identified with 87 males (91%) (mean age=41.6 years; range 17 to 86 years) and nine fe…

PURPOSE: A new amphetamine extended-release liquid formulation (AMP XR-OS), intended for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, has been developed. This study was performed to determine if administration with food affected the rate of absorption or bioavailability of AMP XR-OS. The formulation was a…

PURPOSE: To study the stage of presentation, clinical features, and treatment outcomes of patients diagnosed with Coats disease in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers (aged ≤5 years). METHODS: A retrospective hospital-based study of 98 patients with Coats disease was conducted. RESULTS: The mean age at present…

Outcomes of 37 patients of foramen magnum meningioma (FMM) were evaluated, and the related literature was reviewed to determine the efficacy of Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) for treating patients with FMM. We present the largest series reported from a single institution with the longest follow-up to date. The databas…

PURPOSE: To review indications and clinical outcomes in a series of orbitocranial tumors treated surgically through a transorbital extradural approach without craniotomy. METHODS: In this retrospective case series, all patients who underwent surgery through a transorbital extradural approach without craniotomy for ben…

Improvement and innovation have been ongoing in gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for the last few years, including highly maneuverable endoscopes, high-definition visualization, digital chromoendoscopy, and wide working channels, which allow a correct identification, catheterization, and delimitation of early neoplastic…

When last year's consultative document for the Manual Handling Regulations arrived on her desk Maureen Duffy, like many other OHNs, realised that she had her work cut out. She describes how her company set about achieving compliance with the new legislation.

A method of reducing the risk of recurrence of fistula in ano is described. The technique involves injecting saline solution into the external opening of the tract and identifying the internal opening by the egress of liquid. The procedure has been used in 74 patients over the last two years with a recurrence rate of 1…

A case of extensive urogenitary tuberculosis treated by enterocystoplasty and two-stage urethroplasty is reported. 10 years after the last surgical procedure, the evacuation of the bladder enlarged by the sigmoid colon through the reconstructed urethra is satisfactory. The low micturating pressure and the mucus secreti…

PURPOSE: The task of the research was epidemiological and clinical analyses of those patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In the period of 1976-200 147 patients with complications of perinasal sinusitis were treated. As numerous classifications of paranasal sinusitis complications exist, the analysis of the material was ba…

Medical students are precious seeds for better future medical research. Case reports writing may represent a relatively simple first step for beginners. Only 47 case reports are published in the literature by Syrian Medical Institutions compared to more than 500 case reports in a comparable country in the last 5 years.…

New strategies in antineoplastic therapy that have been applied during the last 5 years to children with malignant disease include the Goldic-Coldman hypothesis, new methods of drug delivery, reduction in toxicity with prolonged intravenous infusions, shortening of maintenance therapy and techniques to improve the comp…

In a prospective study, 18 patients were randomized to a prosthesis and 23 patients to the Kennedy Ligament Augmentation Device (LAD) because of functional instability due to old anterior cruciate ligament injuries. The operations were performed with use of a modified over-the-top technique. At the last follow-up (5 ye…

To explore prevalence and predictors of the use of Rush poppers among men who have sex with men in education in Guangdong Province.An internet survey was conducted via a gay website from March to August 2014 and a sample of 833 male respondents over 16 years who had ever had anal sex with a male, studied in Guangdong P…

UNLABELLED: We aimed to assess the prevalence of resistant hypertension (RH) in patients attending hypertension outpatient clinics and to identify risk factors for RH. We studied the medical records of the last visit of all patients (n = 1810; 40.4% males, age 56.5 ± 13.5 years) who attended at least once our hype…