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The clinical and pathologic findings of two patients with malignant ectomesenchymomas of soft tissue are reported. Malignant ectomesenchymomas are a composite of ganglion cells or neuroblasts and one or more malignant mesenchymal elements, usually rhabdomyosarcoma. Our first case was composed of ganglioneurosarcoma plu…

Long-term follow-up of kidney donors is needed not only for the individual donor's benefit but also to establish analyzable databases to improve the selection criteria for future donors. We collected data including the date of transplantation, the date of the last follow-up, donor's age, sex, their relationship to the…

Infantile fibrosarcoma of head and neck is rare and the presence of this tumor in ethmoid sinus is even more uncommon. To the best of our knowledge, <5 cases have been reported in the last 20 years in the English literature, so far, only one of which has been infantile type in a 15 months old girl. In this case report,…

Dexibuprofen is the single pharmacologically effective enantiomer of rac-ibuprofen. Racibuprofen and dexibuprofen differ in their physico-chemical properties, in terms of their pharmacological properties and their metabolic profiles. Several clinical trials and post-marketing surveillance studies were performed to broa…

To assess the efficacy of prehospital coniotomy (cricothyrotomy), information regarding all coniotomies performed by military physicians during the last 3.5 years was analyzed. 26 were performed between October 1991 and May 1995, of which 23 were successful (88.4%). Failures were due to poor anatomic identification of…

In a trial to determine the role of Sinai rodents as reservoirs to rickettsial diseases, the IFA technique was used to detect the presence of R. typhi and spotted fever group in blood of some commensal and wild rodent species collected in Sinai during the last five years (1985-1989). Out of 277 Rattus spp. collected in…

This review summarizes data collected by the Swedish National Cataract Register (NCR), which by the end of 2022 contained data on more than 2.6 million cataract surgeries between 1992-2022. During these 31 years, the cataract surgery rate (CSR) rose from 3 700 to 14 407. The coverage of NCR is very high, including 93%…

BACKGROUND: The increase in life expectancy and low mortality have doubled the number of individuals older than 65 in the last 30 years. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study of 101 patients older than 80 years of age treated by low digestive hemorrhage (LDH) in an emergency department during 2018. Sociodemograp…

Approximately 1% of the population suffers from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) worldwide (0.45% in Poland). The therapy consists of the use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Biologics are used in the form of the drug programme. Analysis of the NHF database demonstrated the sequence of conversion between dru…

Contemporary child and adolescent psychoanalytic technique has evolved and changed a great deal in the last thirty years. This paper will describe the analysis of an adolescent girl from early in the author's career to demonstrate the ways in which technique has changed. The clinical material presented highlights six a…

A previously well woman, 44 years of age, presented with 3 years of recurrent bilateral renal colic. Despite an increase in fluid intake and a low calcium diet, the intermittent episodes of renal colic continued and had become more frequent in the last year. An abdominal X-ray was performed, which showed some radio-opa…

Speleothem laminae have been postulated to form annually, and this lamina-chronology is widely applied to high-resolution modern and past climate reconstructions. However, this argument has not been directly supported by high resolution dating methods. Here we present contemporary single-lamina (230)Th dating technique…

The article presents actual tendencies in morbidity of students of two universities of Saralov. The characteristics of medical social factors impacting students' health and morbidity of respiratory diseases are given. During, the last five years the increase of common morbidity of students up to 20.3% (from 932.3 to 11…

This review summarizes efficacious treatments for preschoolers, children and adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder, with a focus on the advances made within the last 5 years. There is considerable support for the use of trauma-specific cognitive-behavioral interventions, in both individual and group formats.…

To control the Arctic variant of rabies virus in red foxes, 332,257 bait doses containing live, attenuated Evelyn-Rokitnicki-Abelseth rabies vaccine were distributed in greater metropolitan Toronto during 1989-1999. Human and pet contact with bait was minimal, and no adverse reactions to the vaccine were noted. Signifi…

The Hypertension Unit, University Hospital San Cecilio of Granada, on fulfilling 15 years and after the experience acquired in this extended period, wants to stress various "facts": 1) the importance of correctly measuring blood pressure, avoiding rounding off "numbers" and making three consecutive measurements, taking…

At the turn of the 20th Century, the Universe was thought to consist of our solar system, the Sun, planets, satellites and comets, floating under the Milky Way. The astronomers were ignorant of the existence of galaxies, clusters, quasars and black holes. Over the last ten years the Cosmology has made remarkable progre…

A new intraurethral catheter (IUC) developed by Nissenkorn has been inserted in 43 patients in the last 3 years. We reserved this device for very selected patients in urinary retention due to prostatic obstruction with operative contraindications or limited life expectancy. The device is simple, very easy to insert und…

In a retrospective study the surgically treated vascular injuries (n = 35) of the last 10 years were evaluated. One third of the patients had multiple trauma and in 57% of the cases vascular injury was accompanied by a fracture. All patients (n = 28) except those who underwent delayed amputation (amputation rate 14%) h…

Eleven cases of primary carcinoma of vagina were admitted in Kasturba Medical College Hospital during the last 10 years, of which 6 cases aged 44-72 years, were associated with 3rd degree uterine prolapse. All the patients attended the hospital in late stage in spite of having 3rd degree uterine prolapse. Blood stained…