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BACKGROUND: Medical thoracoscopy (MT) or pleuroscopy is a procedure performed to diagnose and treat malignant and benign pleural diseases. Totally 2752 pleuroscopies executed in 1984-2013 in our center were considered in this study. METHODS: A retrospective observational study was performed. Observational time was div…

INTRODUCTION: Many children and adolescents have mental problems that undermine their normal development and functioning. It is estimated that about 10% of children and adolescents suffer from mental disorders at a sufficiently severe level to cause some degree of damage and require treatment. AIM: The aim of this pap…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the intermediate and long-term follow-up effect of posterior dynamic lumbar stabilization in lumbar degenerative disease. METHODS: The clinical outcomes of 96 patients (male 51, female 45, age from 21 to 68 years, mean 41.5 years) whose follow-up time were more than 2 years with lumbar degenerat…

In the last two years we admitted in our Hospital 38 children with acute renal failure (ARF). Six of them were affected by hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) atypical. The aHUS is diagnosed in the presence of thrombotic microangiopathy (MAT), renal insufficiency (GFR 5%). The clinical presentation of our children has been…

OBJECTIVES: The diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding have been improved during the last decades. The aim of this study was to compare the aetiology and clinical outcome of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) between two distinct periods during the last 1…

BACKGROUND: Uveal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular tumor in adults. In the last two decades the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center ocular oncology clinic has become a referral center for uveal melanoma patients. OBJECTIVES: To describe the characteristics of uveal melanoma patients in Israel, the…

BACKGROUND: Given the lack of studies of acetabular defect reconstruction in primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) using tantalum augments, this study aims to evaluate clinical and radiographic results for treatment with tantalum augments to reconstruct acetabular defects in primary THA. METHODS: We retrospectively rev…

The application of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) as a treatment for different orthopaedic conditions has experienced a rapid increase over the last several years. However the mechanism of action and the therapeutic effect is not clear. The aim of this study was to review the literature about the efficacy of…

INTRODUCTION: Multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block is an immune-mediated motor neuropathy, which usually responds to intravenous immunoglobulin. However, efficacy of long-term intravenous immunoglobulin is controversial. Our aim was to establish the long-term effects of intravenous immunoglobulin therapy o…

The incidence of melanoma has increased more dramatically than any other malignancy in the last years. In this study, we compared the numbers of publications between melanoma and other cancers over the last 20 years, and we aimed to understand the relationship between publications on melanoma and other cancers using pu…

INTRODUCTION: This review was done to find the trend for orthopaedic publications from Egypt in the last 5 years, detailing the specialties that are most published and comparing this with the surrounding Middle East region. METHODS: The search included orthopaedic-related articles published in journals that are l…

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The rising cost of health care is of universal concern. If the cost effectiveness of conventional and novel radiotherapeutic strategies is to be established we need to have confidence in our estimates of both cost and effectiveness. The purpose of this study is to explore the degree of consisten…

Most studies evaluating the efficacy of atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation report follow-up periods of 1 year to 2 years, but few report long-term results of > or =5 years after ablation. Therefore, we evaluated the long-term efficacy (i.e., >5 years) of segmental antrum pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) for paroxysmal AF.…

To analyze three reconstruction techniques and mid-term clinical outcomes of hip revision for acetabular bone defect after total hip arthroplasty (THA).This is a retrospective case series study. Included in the study were 109 patients (109 hips) with acetabular bone defect after THA reconstructions in hip revisions fro…

BACKGROUND/AIMS: This study was undertaken to evaluate changes in the seroepidemiological pattern of Helicobacter pylori in a group of Turkish children over a span of 10 years. METHODS: A total of 403 (219+184) serum samples were obtained from a primary school located in the urban part of Ankara in 1990 and 2000. All…

The aim of this study was to emphasize the utility and prove the accuracy of rapid diagnosis at the outpatient clinic for breast tumors by fine needle aspiration cytology [FNAC]. Rapid diagnosis for breast tumors by FNAC is performed on the same day just after mammography and echonography are carried out at our hospita…