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Lumbar punctures are a common clinical procedure in pediatric populations, yet little systematic information about side effects or the child's perspective of the procedure is available. In a subset (n = 20) of a sample of children and adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders, we recorded children's ratings of res…

In the last 5 years there has been an increasing commitment to cell support regimens and bone marrow transplantation in leukaemia and the clinical service has developed in parallel with laboratory-based research programmes. In the acute leukaemias there has been a major attempt to improve diagnostic accuracy and to cla…

The purpose of this work was to establish the age-specific prevalence rates of alcoholism syndromes in a cohort defined 25 years ago. Information has been collected by psychiatrists through free, exploratory field interviews subsequently checked against documentary records. Alcoholism was medically defined in three cat…

An African from the Comoros Islands, who has been living in Berlin for eleven years and who had made his last journey to Africa two years before, fell ill with high fever upon returning from a visit to Mayotte and Grande Comore. His blood smear revealed trophozoites of Plasmodium falciparum. After intake of 25 mg of ch…

A total of 89 patients, age 80 years or older at the time of initial permanent pacemaker implantation, were followed for 10 to 128 months [mean 32.7]. There were 54 males and 35 females. The mean age was 84.8 years. There were 51 patients age 80-84, 25 age 85-89, and 13 age 90-94. The actuarial 5-year survival was 45%.…

Bleeding on probing (BOP) is a widely used criterion to diagnose gingival inflammation. The purpose of the present retrospective study was to evaluate its prognostic value in identifying sites at risk for periodontal breakdown during the maintenance phase of periodontal therapy. 55 patients who had been treated for adv…

Educational interventions represent an alternative for the reproductive well-being. The objective of this investigation was to identify in a mexican community, attitudes and behaviors related to reproductive health, with the goal of implementing a specific health education program. The study population consisted of wom…

INTRODUCTION: Postsurgical gastric atony occurs infrequently after gastric surgery. However, the symptoms are disabling and refractory to medical management. The only effective treatment is completion gastrectomy. A few studies have examined in detail the long-term results of this radical procedure. METHODS: From 1988…

This investigation, using a case-control analysis approach on an IUD data set from a less-developed country center, delineated four risk factors in patient characteristics that are associated with severe pain at interval IUD insertion. They are: higher education (greater than or equal to seven years), low-parity (1-2 l…

During the last 15 years, a total of 26 patients were treated for pancreatic pseudocysts, at the 2nd Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, University of Athens. There were 16 (61.5%) men and 10 (38.5%) women aged between 19 and 82 years old (mean age 61 years). Dominating symptoms in most patients were epigastric mass an…

INTRODUCTION: The outcome of patients ≥ 60 years of age after alcohol septal ablation (ASA) for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) remains unresolved. We sought to determine the long-term survival and the causes of death in this population. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We enrolled 156 consecutive patients (…

BACKGROUND: Meticulous haemostasis is one of the most important factors during microneurosurgical resection of brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Controlling major arterial feeders and draining veins with clips and bipolar coagulation are well-established techniques, while managing with bleeding from deep tiny ves…

BACKGROUND: Biomedical research has grown considerably in the last few decades, and the authorship characteristics of the dental literature as a whole and of its specialty fields has changed significantly. Unfortunately, the bibliometrics of the periodontal literature have not been thoroughly investigated. The aim of t…

Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) may be considered as an important cause of hip pain among young patients. A new surgical technique using a mini open anterior Hueter approach with arthroscopic assistance was developed in our department in 1999. The goal of our study was to evaluate the midterm clinical results and th…

PURPOSE: To investigate longevity and reasons for failure of Class II posterior composite restorations (PCRs) placed with or without a lining of glass-ionomer cement. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Four hundred fifty-eight Class II PCR placed in 248 patients (110 male, 138 female, age 18 to 80) by two dentists in a general pr…

Aiming to measure the prevalence of risky behaviors, familial disturbances and their interrelations, a probabilistic sample of 1904 teenagers (aged 15.5 +/- 1.8 years, 42% male) was surveyed using and anonymous and self applied questionnaire. Fifty two percent of the sample smoked, 54% consumed alcohol, 12.5% marihuana…

During the last 3 years (1983 to 1985) accurate measurements of the distance between rectus muscle insertions and the corneal limbus were made on strabismus patients during surgery. After dissection of a muscle the distance from the posterior limbus (gray-white line) to the insertion line of the muscle was measured wit…

AIM: To evaluate the results of hip reconstruction with extensive excision for tumor confined to the femoral head and neck. METHODS: We designed a resection preserving the greater trochanter and lower portion of calcar femorale, and utilized conventional total hip prosthesis. We retrospectively reviewed 7 patients, wh…

The study investigated the effects of World War II (WWII) on psychological and social functioning of Jewish and non-Jewish survivors 60 years after the war. The authors hypothesized that the level of posttraumatic symptoms, depression, and social isolation of survivors who were at least 5 years old (but younger than 18…

A search was made for 26Mg (26Mg*) from the decay of 26Al (half-life = 0.73 million years) in Al-rich objects from unequilibrated ordinary chondrites. Two Ca-Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) and two Al-rich chondrules (not CAIs) were found that contained 26Al when they formed. Internal isochrons for the CAIs yielded an initia…