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Five cases of Fournier's gangrene that had been treated at our department over the last five years are described. The literature is reviewed with special reference to the pathogenic, microbiological and therapeutic aspects of this disease entity. Similarly, we underscore the significant drop in mortality with the avail…

During the last 10 years new approaches for rapid opioid detoxification have included drug combinations such as clonidine and naltrexone to speed and ease the transition from opioid agonist to antagonist maintenance. Other drug combinations include naloxone with midazolam or methohexitone for inpatients, but rapid outp…

Carl Langenbuch realized in Germany in 1882, the first cholecystectomy. On this century of experience, the technique has been converted in a classic way. Since 1910, it was converted on the gold standard in the treatment of the cholelithiasis, place that it still conserve. In the last three years, with the apparition o…

A retrospective study of autopsied material in the last 15 yrs is documented an increasing incidence of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) in Hong Kong Chinese. The incidence of significant PTE increased from 0.58% in the first 5 yr period to 2.08% in recent years. The topographic features and characteristics of these PTE…

There have been major advances in Doppler technology over the last 5 years which are particularly useful in the field of urology. In the early 1980s the clinical significance of Doppler was limited to the diagnosis of testicular torsion and its use was primarily intraoperative. Today, however, new advances, i.e. pulsed…

In the last 12 years 25 patients affected with obstruction from colorectal carcinoma were treated. Mortality following simple colostomy was not different from that of surgical resections (25% vs. 14% in Authors' experience). Major surgery (subtotal colectomy) registered a reasonable mortality rate (5-6%).

265 hypogonadic Sardinian males, ascertained through military records of 600,000 conscripts approximately over the last thirty-seven years, were screened for their sex chromatin phenotype by buccal mucosa smears and for their karyotypes from peripheral blood lymphocyte cultures. 158 (59.4%) showed a XXY karyotype witho…

Two groups of compounds, the beta-lactams and the quinolones, account for the main developments in antimicrobials in the last 5 years. Efforts to overcome emerging problems of resistance and to broaden further the spectrum of similar existing agents have been the main impetus to the pharmaceutical industry, though some…

The authors studied some characteristics of hanseniasis, through registered data, in the Public Health District of Londrina, in the State of Paraná, Brazil. As mean finds, they verified that 49,3% of the patients were V + D cases; 29,5% were I cases and 21,2% T cases. "Incidence", in Londrina city, ranged between…

Carcinoid tumours of the colon and rectum were diagnosed in 26 patients, 30 years or younger, in Sweden during 1969--1970. Patho-anatomical description was adequate in 24 cases and of these 23 were localized to the appendix and one to the caecum. The treatment was appendicectomy and in the last case ceacal resection. N…

The problems encountered in the surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer are outlined on the basis of a review of the literature published in the last 15 years and the authors' experience with 157 patients over the period 1970 to 1977. The overwhelming evidence favors resection as opposed to any palliative procedure. Al…

A direct cytotoxic effect of vincristine on the neurons, especially the cerebral cortex is discussed in the literature. In 188 patients treated with vincristine we saw no so called "Vincristine-induced Encephalopathy". In 67 children investigated 5 weeks up to 2 years after the last vincristine-injection we found no ch…

Granulomatous mastitis is a benign mammary lesion, which clinically can closely simulate breast cancer. The condition has only recently been recognized, less than a dozen cases being recorded in the English literature. Two further cases are presented, the histological features are illustrated, and the literature is rev…

PURPOSE: Meniscus repair has gained increasing interest over the last two decades as loss of meniscus tissue predisposes to early onset knee arthritis. Although there are many reports of meniscus repair outcome in short-term studies, data on the long-term outcome of meniscus repair are still scarce. The purpose of this…

OBJECTIVE: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a severe psychiatric condition. The authors present their experience with Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) in the treatment of patients with OCD resistant to any medical therapy. METHODS: Patients with severe OCD resistant to all pharmacological and psychiatric treatmen…

To evaluate the influence of PI-LL (pelvic incidence minus lumbar lordosis mismatch) on scoliosis correction, living quality and internal fixation related complications for adult degenerative scoliosis (ASD) after long posterior instrumentation and fusion.A total of 79 patients with ADS underwent long posterior instrum…

PURPOSE: Prominent ear is common in the white population at a rate of 5%. Many surgical incision and suture techniques have been described for its correction. The purpose of this article was to report the results of the prominent ear surgeries applied in our clinic for the last 5 years and to show the details of the su…

BACKGROUND: Unrepaired aortic coarctation is known to have a detrimental effect on survival. The benefit of coarctation repair on systolic hypertension in adults has been questioned. This retrospective study was conducted to evaluate the impact of repair of aortic coarctation on systolic hypertension in adults. METHOD…

BACKGROUND: There is little data available on the occurrence of leukaemias in India. This is despite a large number of patients being diagnosed and treated at various cancer centres all over the country. We, therefore, analysed the available data of the Bombay Cancer Registry to ascertain the epidemiological characteri…

259 patients with primary proliferative polycythaemia (PPP) and idiopathic thrombocythaemia (IT) have been treated with 32P over the last 15 years. Complete follow-up data were obtained in 238 patients. PPP was the diagnosis in 183 patients and 76 patients had IT. The sex ratio in PPP was male/female 1.1:1 and in IT 1:…