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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of arthroscopic treatment for irreducible hip posterior dislocation caused by acetabular labrum bony Bankart lesions. METHODS: Between February 2008 and August 2016, 11 patients with irreducible hip posterior dislocation caused by acetabular labrum bony Bankart lesions, were…

Prothrombin 20210G>A and factor V Leiden are common prothrombotic mutations in whites for which founder effects have been established. In this study, we analyzed the frequencies of 5 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 9 microsatellites flanking the prothrombin gene (F2) in 88 homozygotes for 20210A and 66 homoz…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the long-term (20-year) survival of transplanted human corneal endothelial cells. METHODS: The donor endothelium had been photographed 20 years ago with a specular microscope both before enucleation in the melanomatous eye and in situ after keratoplasty. The same donor endothelial cells were now p…

The long-term functional results of splinting a collapsing major airway with a silastic Marlex mesh prosthesis were assessed. Six patients in whom follow-up has been longer than 4 years (mean 5.3 years) were studied. The prosthetic semirigid splints had been implanted in five children with tracheomalacia and one with b…

This article deals with the history of the development of terminology and classification of allergic (vasomotor) rhinitis during the last 50 years.

Over the last few years the scientific debate on Non Conventional Medicines and their integration with the academic or dominant medicine in our western society has activated a cultural transformation process. This article discusses the main reasons of the need for an integration between the supposed only scientific, ma…

A look at the temporal impact of advancements in therapeutic options in the last 10 years-from fluorouracil to irinotecan and oxaliplatin-on overall survival in a population-based cohort.

There was a huge surprise awaiting Royal College of Midwives General Secretary Ruth Ashton at her retirement party last week. BBC social services correspondent Niall Dickson was on hand with the big red book' to say 'Ruth Ashton, this is your professional life'. Friends, family and colleagues organised the event in whi…

There can be few important areas of working life that have seen more changes in fashion and style than the process of management. Anyone who has been close to management and management education over the last 25 years will have been washed over by a constant stream of new theories, techniques and 'guaranteed solutions'…

Significant improvements have taken place in the composite resin systems during the last 20 years. The author discusses the principles of photoenergy for curing, the optimization of particle size, the placement of posterior composite resins, and the three techniques for placing composite resin inlays and onlays.

During the last 25 years, there has been much progress in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of venous thromboembolic disease. The guest editor believes that a great deal remains to be done and attempts, in this article, to outline some of the challenges remaining by developing themes put forth by the various aut…

Auditory testing of neonates has received considerable attention in the last few years. As a result, several machines have been devised for this type of evaluation. It has been proposed that this equipment can be utilized by volunteer personnel to assess the hearing of infants. This investigation indicates that even tr…

Steroid contraceptive hormones may promote human papilloma virus (HPV) - DNA integration into the host genome, may bind to specific HPV-DNA sequences within transcriptional regulatory regions, and may modulate cell apoptosis. Most epidemiological studies, reported in this narrative review, have shown that oral contrace…

Prostate cancer is still the most common urological cancer of the elderly man. In some patients, a metastatic prostate cancer arises which may remain a stable disease for years with palliative antiandrogen therapy. On average, after 3-4 years, affected men develop a PSA rise and disease progression with the formation o…

We retrospectively reviewed the outcome of 36 consecutive patients seen in our department with nonmetastatic unresectable adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. There were 28 men and 8 women with a mean age of 63.7 years (range, 43-78 years). Radiation therapy (RT) was given to all patients. 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) was given as…

Adduction spastic dystonia (SD) is currently considered a focal dystonia involving laryngeal muscles. SD is one of the most poorly known focal dystonias. We reviewed our experience with twentynine patients with adduction SD and compared the clinical and epidemiologic variables with the other focal dystonias studied at…

Treatment of malignant diseases in children has become more an more aggressive during the last 15-20 years. In order to detect unwanted side-effects on the lung we investigated several parameters of lung function in 78 children with different malignancies. 1.5-15 years after termination of therapy, 43 patients (55.1%)…

N-Heterocyclic carbenes, despite being isolated and characterized three decades ago, still capture scientists' interest as versatile, modular and strongly coordinating moieties. In the last decade, driven by the increasingly refined fundamental understanding of their behaviour, the emergence of new carbene frameworks a…

In last few years, the shortage of molybdenum-99 (99Mo) was felt in the developed and developing countries hospitals, where diagnostic nuclear medicine is practiced. To overcome the shortage of 99Mo various routes of its production by accelerators and reactors generating low and high specific activity products have bee…

Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most common form of severe antibody deficiency. The disorder is associated with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations, including infections and chronic lung, gastrointestinal and autoimmune diseases. A 29-year-old female patient has had frequent sinopulmonary infecti…