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Radiographic sagittal plane analysis of VATS (video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery) anterior instrumentation for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. This is retrospective study. To report, in details about effects of VATS anterior instrumentation on the sagittal plane. Evaluations of the surgical outcome of scoliosis have…

PURPOSE: Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a severe epileptic condition characterized by multiple seizure types including tonic seizures, slow spike-and-wave discharges on electroencephalography (EEG), and cognitive impairment. LGS can occur in apparently healthy subjects or in patients with preexisting brain damage. Th…

INTRODUCTION: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and the third most common malignant neoplasm worldwide. Chinese Americans are one of the ethnic minority groups who have the lowest rates of CRC screening. The purpose of this study was to describe CRC screening amon…

PURPOSE: The time interval between last childbirth and subsequent breast cancer diagnosis is emerging as an important prognostic factor for premenopausal women. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We studied, prospectively, 750 women diagnosed with primary invasive breast cancer before age 45 years who participated in the populatio…

This study explores the role of a particular social cue-the sequence of demonstrated actions and events-in preschooler's categorization. A demonstrator sorted objects that varied on both a surface feature (color) and a nonobvious property (sound made when shaken). Children saw a sequence of actions in which the nonobvi…

To examine publication trends pertaining to fertility-sparing management in patients of reproductive age with gynecological malignancies.Ovid MEDLINE was used to aggregate all publications on gynecological cancers and fertility between 1946 and 2022. Original research, reviews, case series/reports, and editorials were…

INTRODUCTION: Supine percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) has become increasingly widespread during the last 2 decades. The aim of this study was to analyze the transition from prone to mainly supine PCNL in 2 endourologic centers. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed data on 214 consecutive supine PCNLs d…

It has been considered unlikely that patients with insulin-dependent diabetes and diabetic nephropathy with nephrotic range proteinuria can substantially reduce proteinuria and continue for many years without further loss of renal function. We present a patient who had the diagnosis of insulin-dependent diabetes made a…

To evaluate the costs associated with healthcare and long-term care during the last 24 months before death according to major disease groups.Individual data regarding healthcare and long-term care costs according to public insurance schemes during the last 24 months before death among all decedents older than 75 years…

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the long-term follow-up (FU) and effectivity of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) in a French adolescent cohort. METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the results of LAGB at our institution. We collected information on FU, adjustable gastric banding (AGB) status, weight-related p…

Over the last 25 years a large body of research has investigated how best to select applicants to study medicine. Although these studies have inspired little actual change in admission practice, the implications of this research are substantial. Five areas of inquiry are discussed: (1) the interview and related techniq…

PURPOSE: The World Health Organization (WHO) revised the Global Standards for Quality Health Care Services for Adolescents and a linked Adolescent Health Competencies documents in 2025. Young people across the world informed these revisions through a global online consultation about their health-care experiences. We ex…

OBJECTIVES: We attempted to predict health expectancy in Japan for the period between 2011 and 2020, considering the target of Health Japan 21 (the second term) that future gains in health expectancy be larger than in life expectancy. METHODS: We used data from Japanese national statistics. Health expectancy between 2…

Trends in mortality from breast cancer over the period 1970-2000 were analysed for 38 European countries and the European Union (EU). Age-standardized mortality rates were computed by the direct method, and joinpoint analysis was used to identify significant changes in rates. A favourable pattern in breast cancer morta…

Cases of food poisoningin England and Wales have almost tripled over the last eight years.

INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term clinical and hemodynamic results in patients affected by severe aortic valve disease after aortic valve replacement with third-generation stentless aortic prostheses (3F® stentless equine pericardial [Medtronic plc, Minneapolis Minnesota] and Pe…

The present retrospective study gives the analysis of the epidemiological data of 1474 patients with gastric cancer, who were operated on at the 1st Department of Surgery of the University Medical School of Debrecen in the course of 35 years. In spite of the changes in diagnostics and therapeutic management it was impo…

In France, the newly diagnosed infection rate was 372/100,000 for African immigrants versus 6/100,000 for the French-born population in 2008. In addition, people from sub-Saharan countries were at higher risk for late diagnosis than native-born French despite their more frequent use of HIV testing. The purpose of this…