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In paediatric population, the laparoscopic splenectomy has been preferred to the open surgery during the last years. Due to the improvement of the technique and the devices, the indications to the laparoscopic splenectomy have been increased, even though there is still a variety of conditions in which the execution of…

OBJECTIVE: To study the classification criteria of adult cuboid fracture and its guidance feasibility and effect of treatment. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was made on the clinical data of 415 adult patients (416 feet) with cuboid fractures who had complete CT data treated between May 2009 and April 2014. There w…

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has been established as a very successful and commonly performed procedure for primary and secondary osteoarthritis, and also for inflammatory arthropathies of the knee in all age groups and both genders. It has predominantly been used as a procedure in the age group of patients 65 ye…

OBJECTIVES: The United States (US) population is aging with an increasing number of older adults over 90 years old. The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate trends in orthopaedic surgeries in patients 90 years old and greater over the past decade from 2014-2023. METHODS: Patients ≥90 years old at the ti…

OBJECTIVES: To analyze the evolution of prostate cancer (PCa) in our community health area over the last years, in terms of incidence, clinical-epidemiological characteristics, and cancer-specific mortality. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of the medical records of patients with PCa in our hospital over the 1991-2003…

BACKGROUND: The practice of cancer diagnosis disclosure to children has been changed with the times. The regulations of clinical trials in the 2000s might change the practice in Japan. However, the perspective of this topic among children and adults has not been investigated in detail. METHODS: We studied changes in t…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Nearly 50% of adults in Germany have no measurable antibody protection against diphtheria, even though most of them will have been vaccinated against it in their childhood. We investigated how vaccination should be performed in this situation to provide lasting protection. MATERIAL AND METHOD…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Human papillomavirus (HPV) antibody responses to the 9-valent human papillomavirus (9vHPV) vaccine among girls and boys (aged 9-14 years) receiving 2-dose regimens (months 0, 6 or 0, 12) were noninferior to a 3-dose regimen (months 0, 2, 6) in young women (aged 16-26 years) 4 weeks after last…

In many countries obesity has increased dramatically during the last decades, while there has been a parallel decrease in smoking. The objective of the present study was to estimate the net effect on premature mortality of these trends. A simulation model was developed to estimate the expected number of deaths between…

Two deep ice cores from central Greenland, drilled in the 1990s, have played a key role in climate reconstructions of the Northern Hemisphere, but the oldest sections of the cores were disturbed in chronology owing to ice folding near the bedrock. Here we present an undisturbed climate record from a North Greenland ice…

OBJECTIVES: Despite the recognized impact of intrinsic capacity (IC) impairment on healthy aging, international comparisons in different sociocultural contexts are scarce. This study aimed to compare IC impairment among community-dwelling older adults in Japan and Taiwan to explore the context of healthy aging in diffe…

OBJECT: in this paper, the authors' goal was to evaluate the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of apical segment resection osteotomy with dual axial rotation correction for severe focal kyphosis by examining outcomes. METHODS: between May 2004 and December 2006, the authors treated 23 patients with severe focal kyphos…

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Expanding violence may necessitate treatment of explosion victims, requiring a broadening of existing medical skills and knowlegde of injury mechanisms. The aim of the study was to assess the number, nature and injury pattern of fatal explosion incidents in Finland. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Retrospec…

Abdominal aortic aneurysm resections were performed on 298 patients between January, 1966 and December, 1973. The results were compared with 186 resections previously reported between 1955-1965. Hospital mortality rates for elective resections were 13% in 1955-1965, 8.4% in 1966-1973, and 4.2% in the 113 patients treat…

The elongated semi-enclosed Bay of Izmit, which receives both domestic and industrial wastes, has been monitored by measuring its physical and biochemical parameters for 2 years, 1994-1995. It is clear that there are two distinct water masses. The upper layer has been occupied by the less saline (22-26 ppt) waters of t…