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INTRODUCTION: Neurological diseases can be due to direct diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) or peripheral nervous system (PNS) or be a bystander syndrome of systemic diseases. Treatment options depend on the cause. Toxic, metabolic and nutritional, and immune-mediated consequences of clinically occult neoplas…

INTRODUCTION: There are 2 standard techniques of laparoscopic groin hernia repair, totally extraperitoneal repair (TEP) and transabdominal preperitoneal repair (TAPP). TEP has the advantage that the peritoneal cavity is not breached but is, however, considered to be more difficult to master when compared with TAPP. We…

BACKGROUND: Blood conservation strategies have evolved greatly over the last 5 years. There is a paucity of large blood utilization studies of total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) that include recently performed surgery. The purpose of this study was to use a large database to evaluate trends…

BACKGROUND: Despite the increase in cancer incidence in the last years in Serbia, no nation-wide, population-based cancer epidemiology data have been reported. In this study cancer incidence and mortality rates for Serbia are presented using nation-wide data from two population-based cancer registries. These rates are…

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether client-owned dogs in Australia, last vaccinated with Canvac(®) vaccines containing canine parvovirus-type 2 (CPV-2), canine distemper virus (CDV), canine adenovirus type 2 (CAV-2) ± canine parainfluenza virus (CPiV) at least 18 months ago, were seropositive or responded serolog…

BACKGROUND: An increasing number of modern imaging procedures are being applied for the diagnosis of appendicitis. We compared one hundred consecutive appendectomies of the years 1988, 1998 and 2008 concerning reliability of preoperative diagnosis and resulting costs. METHODS: We analysed the first one hundred consecu…

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this review is to offer updating on recent changes in the schedule of active immunization routine in adolescence. METHODS: This review covers specialized medical literature between 1985 and 1996, and follows the recommendations of American Academy of Pediatrics and Advisory Committee on Immun…

PURPOSE: Epidemiologic studies related to the demographics and trends of ocular injury in the pediatric cohort in the last decade are limited. This study describes epidemiologic trends in consumer product-related pediatric ocular injuries from 2010 to 2019. METHODS: This is a retrospective observational study utilizin…

AIMS: Cardiogenic shock (CS) is an ominous complication of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), despite the recent widespread use of reperfusion and invasive management. The Ruti-STEMI-Shock registry analysed the prevalence of and 30-day and 1-year mortality rates in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) co…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the clinical characteristics and outcome of a rheumatic fever case-series from a referral hospital over the last 20 years. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients under the age of 18 years, diagnosed with rheumatic fever between 1986 and 2007 were retrospectively assessed to estimate the carditis and relap…

Over the last few years American surgeons have modified the technique of radial keratotomy in different ways. D. Shepard, of Santa Maria, California, has performed more than 1800 to these operations. Forty-three of the patients, on most of whom surgery was performed in both eyes, were studied from one week to 42.5 mont…

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the extent to which dental health care visits in the past year differed among older adults with and without edentulism. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study using the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey among participants aged ≥50 years (n = 10,480, weighte…

Recurrent alternating stroke, i.e., one time ischemic and the other hemorrhagic or vice versa, is an uncommon event. We report a series of eight patients who had recurrent alternating strokes, which were diagnosed by CT scans during the last four years. Infarcts preceded hemorrhage in six patients. In the remaining two…

We have surveyed a population size of 6633315 from Diseases Surveillance Points (DSP) system in Gansu province for the last eleven years. The annual birth rate was 18.20% with an annual standard mortality rate 545.80/10(5). The annual standard mortality for male and female were 607.53/10(5) and 483.29/10(5) respectivel…

The course of illness was investigated retrospectively and prospectively in a sample of 150 hospitalized schizoaffective patients and 95 hospitalized bipolar manic-depressive patients. The two disorders showed more similarities than differences in their course; this was true for the age of onset (31.8 versus 34.7 years…

PURPOSE: An arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) for degenerative meniscus lesions and traumatic meniscus tears are two distinct entities and their long-term outcomes are rarely reported. The aim of this review was to compare the long-term (clinical and radiological) results of APM performed on stable knees for trau…

BACKGROUND: Pediatric and adults patients share basic aspects of multiple sclerosis; however, pediatric patients may have distinctive clinical features and disease course. OBJECTIVE: To compare the demographic and clinical characteristics between patients of pediatric-onset and adult-onset multiple sclerosis. METHODS…

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective review of the results of operative treatment for paralytic thoracolumbar lordoscoliosis in six consecutive myelomeningocele patients treated with the Mayfield two-stage combined anterior and posterior fusion and instrumentation technique. OBJECTIVES: To assess the long-term stability of mye…

INTRODUCTION: This study was designed to assess the clinical and surgical findings and long-term results of therapy in patients treated for bilateral chronic cholesteatomatous otitis media. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A series of 54 patients who underwent mastoid surgery for bilateral acquired cholesteatoma were followed re…

BACKGROUND: One of the performance criteria of a university hospital is its publication activities. The aim of this bibliometric study was a comparative benchmarking of the publication activities of German orthopedic trauma surgery university hospitals. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The publication performance of the lea…