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The authors have analysed their experience in treating spleen injuries with children in this institution. From 1970 up to 1988, 22 children were operated upon and splenectomy was done in all the children (5 isolated and 17 united spleen injuries), there were 3 autotransplantations of spleen parts in omentum and 1 case…

Holocene fluvial and marine deposits have accumulated in a graben-like structure on the northeastern margin of the Nile delta. This part of the delta, which includes Lake Manzala, Port Said, and the northern Suez Canal, has subsided rapidly at rates of up to 0.5 centimeter per year since about 7500 years ago. This subs…

Hyperparathyroidism as a cause of renal calculous disease has decreased considerably during the last 50 years. From 1972 to 1977, 5,034 cases of calculous disease were seen in 5 major hospitals in South Carolina and only 9 patients had hyperparathyroidism as the underlying etiology. There is a 0.178 per cent incidence…

In the newborn the following traumatic alterations of the nose can be seen: lesions of the soft tissues, flat noses (30--60%), damage by tubes, fixed nasal deformities (0.5%), treatable anterior septal dislocations (2--23%), and combined septal deformities (up to 50%). The literature of the last 100 years is reviewed a…

From 1955 to 1975, 417 patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) operations were performed at Sapporo Medical University. The last 118 operations (28.3%) were done by division through the left axillary incision without mortality. Forty patients were less than 2 years old and 14 were less than 1 year old. The ratio of girls to boy…

BACKGROUND: Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) predisposes to premature cardiovascular diseases. Since 2015, the European Atherosclerosis Society has advocated initiation of statins at 8-10 years of age and a low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) target of <135 mg/dL. Longitudinal data from large d…

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…

BACKGROUND: Several new treatments of bleeding oesophageal varices (BOV) have been introduced during the last 25 years; among these are vasoactive drugs, improved endoscopic techniques and prophylactic antibiotics. AIMS: The aim was to compare clinical outcomes based on Baveno IV criteria in two patient-cohorts (1983-…

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the main clinical features, genetic mutations, and outcomes of patients of the French Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome (CCHS) Registry. DESIGN: A country-wide cohort established throughout a long-term multicenter effort. PATIENTS: Seventy French patients with CCHS (29 male patients an…

Our study aimed to obtain a comprehensive review of the incidence of biopsy-proven glomerulonephritis (GN) at the Cairo University Hospitals, Egypt, over the last five years. We analyzed the clinical and pathological data of all renal biopsy samples that were performed during the period from July 2003 to July 2008. Ren…

To perform a laparoscopic appendectomy, three trocars are usually needed. In order to reduce abdominal wall trauma, we have adopted an umbilical one-puncture laparoscopic-assisted appendectomy (UOPLAA). We did a retrospective study of UOPLAA performed during last 2 years on 200 children aged from 5 to 18 years (median,…

OBJECTIVE: To analyse the possibility of three-yearly screening for cervical cancer after two consecutive normal annual smears. METHOD: Review of the literature. RESULTS: In Switzerland 78% of women are screened spontaneously for cervical cancer. For 70% of this group the last smear was less than 18 months before. In…

Valve replacement has been one of the most important advances in the management of patients with valvular heart disease. The 10 and 15 year survival rate after isolated aortic and mitral valve replacement with the Starr-Edwards valve is 56 and 44%, respectively. At 5 and 7 years, survival with the Bj&#xf6;rk-Shiley, po…

The results of selective proximal vagotomy and pyloroplasty for duodenal and gastric ulcer in 464 patients over the last 5 years were evaluated in 438 cases. More than 75% of the patients were observed for 2 years after the operation. More than 25% were emergency cases, the incidence of intraoperative complications lik…

Data collected during the period July 1963 and June 1964 indicate that an estimated 78.1 million persons, or 42.0 percent of the civilian, noninstitutional population, made one or more dental visits within the year prior to interview. Approximately 16.6 percent of the population had never seen a dentist. These data are…

PURPOSE: To develop and evaluate a hybrid large language model (LLM)- and rule-based algorithm for tracking pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) across serial radiology reports and apply it to a single-center cohort to characterize cyst growth using first-to-last and consecutive comparisons. METHODS: This retrospective st…

BACKGROUND: To date, relationships between pre-covering endometrial swab cytology and bacteriology and fertility outcomes in Thoroughbred broodmares in the United Kingdom are unknown and could aid clinical decision making. OBJECTIVES: To investigate associations between cytology and bacteriology findings from the last…

PURPOSE: The purpose of the article was to determine risk factors associated with interpregnancy interval (IPI) and how IPI is associated with subsequent pregnancy outcomes. METHODS: We performed bivariate and multivariable analyses of the Colorado Birth Certificate Registry data from women with a last live birth from…

OBJECTIVE: In the last two decades several new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have become available. The aim of our study was to analyse whether and how AED prescribing patterns in Dutch children have changed during the last decade and whether these changes were supported by guidelines and results from recently available t…

BACKGROUND: Medical decision making has long been in focus, but little is known of the preferences and conditions for elderly people with co-morbidities to participate in medical decision making. The main objective of the present study was to investigate the preferred and the actual degree of control, i.e. the role eld…