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The continuing education is a challenge for health care professionals, considering the growing amount and variable quality of information in this field. In this context, we developed a method allowing clinicians to have a centralised access to the best current medical evidence supporting medical decision-making. Releva…

This paper deals with the plane-wave scattering from a finite set of coplanar thin circular resistive discs in free space, i.e. discs of high conductivity materials with thicknesses very small with respect to the discs' radii and the free-space wavelength. The scatterers are modelled as planar surfaces and suitable res…

CONTEXT: Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) is one of the most common overuse injuries. OBJECTIVE: To assess the collective evidence of predisposing factors to PFPS. DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE (1960-June 2010), EMBASE (1980-June 2010), and CINAHL (1982-June 2010). STUDY SELECTION: Studies were included if patients were…

The role of laparoscopic appendectomy in the management of complicated appendicitis remains unsettled with reports of a higher incidence of postoperative intraperitoneal abscess. Most studies on laparoscopic appendectomy in children have been done in the Western population. This retrospective review has been done to co…

BACKGROUND: The redox state of glutathione has been used as indicator for the redox environment of the cell. OBJECTIVES: To investigate relationships between the redox environments, the SOD activity, total antioxidant status and the oxidation stress markers production (MDA and lipofuscin). METHODS: Individuals with D…

BACKGROUND: A diversity of endogenous and exogenous compounds have been demonstrated to cause proliferation of peroxisomes and variety of associated effects in rodents. The aim of our study was to see the effect of clofibrate on the enzymes associated with oxidative stress. METHODS: Male Wistar rats weighting 250-350…

BACKGROUND: Human ABO blood group type and the antigenic secretor status are hypothesized to associate with oral diseases including oral cancer. Secretor status is the ability of individuals to secrete blood group antigens into body fluids. This study aimed to evaluate the secretor status of ABO antigens of saliva in p…

AIM: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of factors including obesity, hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia and hyperlipidaemia. It has been associated with an increased risk of colorectal neoplasia. This systematic review and meta-analysis assessed the association between MetS and (i) recurrence of adenomas…

BACKGROUND: The head and neck region has rich regional lymphatic network, with a theoretical risk on contralateral metastasis from oropharyngeal cancer (OPC). There is a long-standing convention to irradiate the great majority of these tumors electively to both sides of the neck to reduce the risk of contralateral regi…

OBJECTIVES: Evidence-based therapeutic recommendations for removable dental prostheses are still lacking. The aim of the present study was a systematic review and meta-analysis of the survival rates of removable dentures in the moderately reduced dentition. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In 2014, a systematic literature searc…

Writing is an essential component of scientific activity. As such, it is necessary to develop strategies to provide equitable training opportunities for science writing. In order to provide learners with ways to improve their writing regardless of their language background and/or institutional and departmental environm…

OBJECTIVES: Automated understanding of clinical records is a challenging task involving various legal and technical difficulties. Clinical free text is inherently redundant, unstructured, and full of acronyms, abbreviations and domain-specific language which make it challenging to mine automatically. There is much effo…

BACKGROUND: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is reported to be the most common rheumatological disorder associated with catatonia. To date, reports on catatonia manifestations in SLE patients are uncommon in published literature, which has often favored a fragmented vision. We performed a narrative review with the ai…

BACKGROUND: The objective of this systematic review was to identify the different surgical treatment modalities of severe trismus after head and neck squamous cell cancer treatment. METHODS: An electronic literature database search was conducted in Medline, Embase, Cochrane, Web of Science, and OpenGrey to determine a…

In 2022, the American Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recommended that core faculty (CF) in medical subspecialty fellowships receive at least 0.1 full-time equivalent (FTE) salary support, with plans to enforce compliance in July 2023. After early feedback raised concerns about potential unintended conse…

The purpose of this systematic review was to calculate the 5-yr survival rates of all-ceramic zirconia-based fixed dental prostheses (FDPs) and to analyze technical and biological complications. An electronic literature search of MEDLINE (PubMed) was conducted independently by three reviewers to identify clinical studi…

Few studies have demonstrated an increased vulnerability to oxidative stress in autism. The results of previous studies have shown that endogenous antioxidant defence is insufficient, indicating that exogenous antioxidant could play a crucial role for oxidative stress prevention in autism. Plasma concentrations of vita…

This review aims to provide a summary of the flowmeter devices used in microvascular surgery and assesses their contribution to improving the clinical outcomes of free tissue transfer. Flowmeters are widely accepted as the standard method of intraoperative assessment of the patency of coronary vascular anastomoses, pro…

PURPOSE: To assess the implant survival rate in mandibles reconstructed with free fibula flap after oral tumor resection after 1 year of prosthetic loading. A secondary objective was to compare immediate or delayed implant placement protocols in this population. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Electronic and manual searches we…

PURPOSE: To compare non-commercial DICOM toolkits for their de-identification ability in removing a patient's personal health information (PHI) from a DICOM header. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Ten DICOM toolkits were selected for de-identification tests. Tests were performed by using the system's default de-identification…