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BACKGROUND: Flexible flatfoot (FFF) is a very common condition in children, characterized by the loss of the medial arch and by an increase in the support base with valgus of the hindfoot. Arthroereisis (AR) procedures are widely performed corrective surgeries and are classified as subtalar AR and calcaneo-stop (CS).…

Freshwater marshes are well-known for their ecological functions in carbon sequestration, but complete carbon budgets that include both methane (CH4 ) and lateral carbon fluxes for these ecosystems are rarely available. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first full carbon balance for a freshwater marsh where ver…

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to examine if treatment strategies differ by age in the elderly population with ovarian cancer in daily clinical practice. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of elderly patients with ovarian cancer who were referred to our institution between January 2007 and August 2010 was done. A u…

UNLABELLED: When early kidney transplant biopsies showed benign hypertensive nephrosclerosis, i.e. hyalin arteriosclerosis and/or interlobular arteries intimal thickening, they are thought to be of donor origin. Between 1987 and 1992, 439 cadaveric renal transplantations have been performed in our department: amongst t…

We provide the first continuous Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) climate record for the higher Himalayas (Kedarnath, India) by analyzing aC-dated peat sequence covering the last ~8000 years, with ~50 years temporal resolution. The ISM variability inferred using various proxies reveal striking similarity with the Greenland i…

The results of the GEDA 2014/2015-EHIS study demonstrate that during the last 12 months, 3.7% of women and 6.0% of men in Germany had coronary heart disease (CHD - defined as myocardial infarction, chronic consequences of myocardial infarction or angina pectoris). The 12-month prevalence of CHD in men and women under 4…

OBJECTIVE: To study of antileukotrienes with participation in the genesis of the asthma appeared in the last years. MATERIAL AND METHOD: 17 children with a mean age of 10.29 years, male seven and ten girls. They were tried with montelukast 5 mg/day the 12-year-old smellers and with 10 mg/day the such age greats, durin…

A 33-year study (from 1963 through 1995) was conducted on 144 patients who underwent surgery for primary tumors of the trachea: 70 females and 65 males aged between 7 and 69 years. In 77 patients the tumor was in the thoracic trachea, in 26 in the cervical trachea, and in 41 at the tracheal bifurcation. The tumor was b…

The outcome was determined for patients with Stage I cancers of the large bowel (colon, rectum, and anus) who were treated from 1982-1989. In 119 consecutive patients, the 5-year survival was approximately 70% (72% by the absolute direct method; 67% by the actuarial life table method). Although the overall 5-year survi…

During the last 10 years 52 patients with acute mesenteric artery occlusion underwent surgery. There were 19 males and 33 females with a mean age of 73.0 years. 33 patients (63.5%) died postoperatively within 30 days. In 12 cases laparotomy demonstrated inoperability. Resections of the necrotic small intestine were per…

The paper presents the results of the 10-year follow-up of 1,237 patients at high risk for stomach cancer. Among them, 669 patients suffered from chronic gastric ulcer, 78--polyps, 382--chronic gastritis and 108 underwent resection of the stomach more than 10 years ago. Repeated gastroscopic examinations, including bio…

Deep leg veins were used as femoropopliteal grafts in 13 patients treated with limb loss (average age, 77.5 years). Runoff was poor in ten patients, and three required transmetatarsal amputations. Early limb salvage was achieved in all cases. Nine (69%) of 13 grafts were either patent when last examined (four patients,…

Breech presentation is classed as an abnormality because of the high associated perinatal mortality and morbidity rates and the slightly increased maternal morbidity. A review of 14 years' experience with breech delivery was undertaken to ascertain patterns of care. During this period there were 33 183 births and there…

The goal of the present study was to adapt and to establish normative data for the recently developed Language Screening Test (LAST; Flamand-Roze et al., 2011) in the French-Canadian population according to age and level of education. After an adaptation process, 100 French-Canadian speakers were evaluated with the LAS…

: Cerclage cable fixation with 2 mm multiple-braided cables for displaced acetabular fractures has shown good midterm functional and radiographic outcomes. We retrospectively evaluated the clinical and radiographic outcomes of cerclage cable fixations over ten years.: We extracted data for patients who underwent cercla…

PURPOSE: In the last 20 years, the number of fatalities due to road traffic accidents (RTA) in Germany has steadily decreased from 7503 to 2724 per year. Due to legal regulations, educational measures and the continuous development of safety technology the number of severe traumatic injuries and injury patterns ar…

For more than 40 years, lithium has been the gold standard in the long-term treatment of bipolar disorders. In the course of the last 15 years, other drugs have been approved in this indication and are widely used in clinical practice at the expense of lithium. New research from the last few years, however, indicates t…

BACKGROUND: In the 1990s, azithromycin became the drug of choice for many infectious diseases but emerging resistance to the drug has only been reported in the last decade. In the last 5 years, the National Neisseria gonorrhoeae Reference Laboratory of Hungary (NNGRLH) has also observed an increased number of N. gonorr…

In this review we attempt to develop a fluid theoretical model which is being used as a strategy-base for future experimentation. The first two sections (A and B) describe how we have conducted our research, and present the perspective value of each. This is important because the research strategies developed in these…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of unilateral pedicle screw fixation in treating thoracolumbar fractures through paraspinal approach. METHODS: From January 2006 to January 2009,21 patients with single level thoracolumbar fracture without neurological symptoms were treated with unilateral pedicle sc…