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BACKGROUND: Granuloma annulare is a chronic noninfectious granulomatous skin condition with variable clinical presentations. Generalized granuloma annulare, defined as widespread disease with >10 skin lesions, accounts for 15% of all cases. Numerous associated diseases have been controversially discussed, most importan…

IMO's Anti-Fouling Systems convention banned the use of organotin-based antifouling systems in 2008 as the ultimate effort to stop tributyltin (TBT) inputs into the marine environment. One of the hazardous effects of TBT is imposex (the superimposition of male sexual characters onto gastropod females), a phenomenon tha…

PURPOSE: To report a decade long experience with powered endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR). METHODS: A retrospective review of all consecutive patients undergoing powered endoscopic DCR was performed at this institution over a period of 11 years from 2002 to 2013. All patients completed a minimum of 3 months foll…

AIM: There is no consensus regarding the ideal treatment of type A thoraco-lumbar fractures. Many surgical techniques have been described but none has demonstrated its superiority over others. Recently, minimally invasive techniques have been widely used as they reduce the immediate morbidity related to the procedure.…

BACKGROUND: Accidental sharp injuries among the health-care workers are frequent, especially in the surgical disciplines. Because there are only limited data available about accidental sharp injuries in small surgical disciplines, we investigated the occurrence of sharp injuries among ophthalmosurgeons in Switzerland.…

INTRODUCTION: In current era of widespread use of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), it is debatable whether coronary artery by-pass graft (CABG) patients are at higher risk. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to evaluate trends in risk profile of isolated CABG patients. METHODS: By analysing the EuroSCORE a…

BACKGROUND: Posterior decompression, instrumentation, and posterolateral fusion are surgical procedures for the treatment of degenerative lumbar diseases. Solid fusion usually causes adjacent problems. This study investigated the clinical outcome and radiographic fate of the L5-S1 segment in patients who underwent post…

AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Increasing diabetes prevalence has been reported in most European countries in the last 20 years. In this study we report on the development of prevalence and incidence of diabetes from 1972 to 2001 in Laxå, a rural community in central Sweden. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A diabetes register was estab…

Cyclosporine A, an immunosuppressor and immunomodulator, has been proposed as an alternative in patients with autoimmune disease not responding to the usual immunosuppressants. We treated with cyclosporine 19 patients with severe myasthenia gravis in a 12-month open uncontrolled trial. There were 14 women and 5 men age…

We present the medium-term results of 33 patients treated with Urolume Plus urethral stent between August 1990 and June 1996 in 9 Belgian and Luxembourg centers. They all had previous treatments for bulbo-membranous urethral stricture, but without sustained benefit (dilatation, internal urethrotomy, or/and urethroplast…

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis infection is a suitable method to evaluate a community tuberculosis endemic. The calculation of infection indexes (incidence, prevalence, year risk and their decline) have been used to analyze this endemic and ist tendency during 22 years in a suburbial city. METHODS: Practice of the tuberculi…

Haemophilus influenzae is a common commensal organism of the human upper respiratory tract and an important cause of human disease. No data on H influenzae carriage rate has been carried out on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. This study aims to present the H influenzae carriage rate and influencing factors of H inf…

PURPOSE: Congenital pseudoarthrosis of the tibia (CPT) is a rare disease in children, and its treatment remains a challenge for orthopedic surgeons. The purpose of this study was to evaluate treatment outcomes of patients with CPT treated by using the Ilizarov method combined with intramedullary fixation. METHOD: Eigh…

To summarize the phenotypes of epilepsy in patients with MBD5 gene variants.A total of 9 epileptic patients, who were treated in the Department of Pediatrics, Peking University First Hospital from July 2016 to September 2021 and detected with MBD5 gene pathogenic variants, were enrolled. The features of clinical manife…

Investigate the psychometric properties of the Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS) for codeine and its association with aberrant codeine related behaviors.A voluntary and uncompensated cross-sectional online survey.Online population (≥18 years).Two hundred and eighty-six respondents (66% women) who had used codei…

INTRODUCTION: Scoliosis could develop at the childhood age and progress beyond skeletal maturity. An early spinal fusion arrests growth of the spine and thorax, risking the development of secondary thoracic insufficiency syndrome. Vertical expandable prosthetic titanium rib (VEPTR) is a fusionless technique aiming to c…

This paper presents an analysis of the level of blood hemoglobin and the rates of anemia in Chinese rural residents in the 2010-2012 National Nutrition and Health Survey, and the change in its prevalence in rural residents during the last ten years. Our methodology included data from the Chinese Nutrition and Health Su…

The treatment of spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia (SED) congenita patients with severe bilateral hip involvement is difficult because it involves deformities of multiple joints and of the spine. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the results of the procedure described below as a method of treatment for bilateral hip…

Although neck injuries secondary to sporting activities in the pediatric demographic presenting to the emergency department (ED) are common, predictors of needing higher-level care (HLC) outside immediate treatment and release are not clear. The aim of this study was to describe how these neck injuries present in the U…

Human activities have strongly impacted the global climate, and during the last few decades the global average temperature has risen at a rate faster than at any time on record. High latitude lakes in the subarctic and arctic permafrost regions have particularly been vulnerable given the "Arctic amplification" phenomen…