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During the last 15 years, a significant evolution has emerged in the surgical treatment of rectal cancer and restoration of bowel continuity has been one of the main goals. For many years the treatment of distal rectal cancer would necessarily require an abdominoperineal resection and end colostomy. The surgical proced…

Preserving foods by drying is one of the oldest known methods of food preservation. Until recently, freezing and canning have been the methods most people used to preserve foods at home. During the past 50 years, science and technology developed during World War II led to increased commercial drying of a wide. variety…

133 patients with inflammatory or tumorous metastases of the thoracic spine were operated upon within the last 11 years. Radical removal of inflammatory lesions with consecutive corticalis-spongiosa-plasty, taken from the christa pelvis, and chemotherapy are a therapeutical unit. Excision of the tumor with supplement b…

A case is reported of a 13-year-old girl who required four operations in 4 years for the removal of multiple spinal, supratentorial and infratentorial ependymoma seedlings, and who remains well 2 1/2 years after the last operation. The place of radiotherapy and surgery are discussed.

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of obesity and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has increased in the last decade. There is a paucity of data on the recent trend of obesity and the utilization of anti-obesity pharmacotherapy in IBD. We aimed to use a population-level database to analyze their trends. METHODS: A retrospectiv…

BACKGROUND: Specialist training in gastroenterology and hepatology is not standardised in different European countries. AIM: The aim of this survey was to assess the different teaching and socioeconomic aspects of training programmes in Europe. METHODS: Seventy questionnaires were distributed to last year trainees or…

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether trans-tendon suture bridge repair with tenotomized pathologic biceps tendon augmentation improves mid-term clinical outcomes for high-grade partial articular-sided supraspinatus tendon avulsion (PASTA) lesions or not. METHODS: A retrospective review of a conse…

BACKGROUND: Scientific research is an essential component in guiding improvements in health systems. There are no studies examining the Sri Lankan medical research output at international level. The present study evaluated the Sri Lankan research performance in medicine as reflected by the research publications output…

BACKGROUND: Due to demographic changes an increasing number of hip osteoarthritis can be expected with corresponding effects on the health care system. Hence, the objectives of our study were to obtain substantiated evidence about current medical care situation of hip osteoarthritis patients including outpatient care s…

Welfare states increasingly rely on aging in place policies and have cut back on institutional long-term care (LTC) provision. Simultaneously, the major determinants of LTC use, that is, dementia and living to very old age, are increasing. We investigated how increasing longevity and concomitant dementia were associate…

IMPORTANCE: Antibodies to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein IgG (MOG-IgG) are increasingly detected in patients with non-multiple sclerosis-related demyelination, some of whom manifest a neuromyelitis optica (NMO) phenotype. Cortical involvement, encephalopathy, and seizures are rare in aquaporin 4 antibody (AQP4-IgG…

Studies were made on the appearance of second malignant tumors (SMT) in children followed in a pediatric hospital at metropolitan Santiago, Chile, between years 1968 and 1987. A retrospective analysis identified SMT in 7 of 430 patients who survived a childhood cancer (incidence 1.62%). An 8th patient was added, whose…

BACKGROUND: The SALTO total ankle prosthesis is a noncemented mobile bearing anatomic design characterized by dual Ti-HA coating. This study reviews our results with this prosthesis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Between 2001 and 2007, 413 consecutive SALTO prostheses were implanted in our institution in 215 women and 198 me…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of one-stage posterior surgery via unilateral musculussacrospinalis iliac flap approach in treatment of lumbosacral tuberculosis. METHODS: Between August 2011 and October 2014, 13 patients with lumbosacral tuberculosis were treated by one-stage posterior reserved pos…

A systematic review of the published literature was conducted to analyze the management evolution of brain metastases from different cancers. Using the keywords "brain metastasis", "brain metastases", "CNS metastasis", "CNS metastases", "phase III" AND/OR "Randomized Controlled Trial" (RCT), relevant articles were sear…

BACKGROUND: To explain the difference in the incidence and relative survival in a population-based cohort of women with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) postdiagnosis in the last forty years. EOC is the most common type of all ovarian cancers, but there is inadequate information about the variations related to long-term…

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Data on secular trends and outcomes of eosinophilic esophagitis (EE) are scarce. We performed a population-based study to assess the epidemiology and outcomes of EE in Olmsted County, Minnesota, over the last 3 decades. METHODS: All cases of EE diagnosed between 1976 and 2005 were identified using t…

INTRODUCTION: Chronic renal insufficiency is a clinical syndrome including increased urea in the serum and creatinine concentration with or without decrease of urine production. Numerous diseases may induce chronic renal insufficiency. In developed countries these are most often diabetes mellitus, glomerulonephritis an…

Analysis of the hands in paintings attributed to Peter Paul Rubens during the last 30 years of his life seems to show progressive rheumatoid arthritis. Not only does this suggest that rheumatoid arthritis was present at the time, 200 years before some modern authors are willing to date its appearance, but also that Rub…