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The authors describe a case of 21-year-old man suffering from tuberous sclerosis, more than once operated for subependymal astrocytomas, presenting multiple bilateral renal angiomyolipomas of 1.5 cm as greatest diameter. Last abdominal ultrasonographic exam, done a few years after the former, revealed an angiomyolipoma…

Forty burn patients were treated in last two years by the method of covering excised or tangentially excised wound with lyophilized glutaraldehyde pigskin, and then planned replacing by autograft skin according to patient's condition. The result showed that the survival rate of the patients was 92.5%. Patients with bur…

AIM: To report the results of whole anterior segment proton beam radiotherapy (PBR) for diffuse iris melanoma. METHODS: Between 2000 and 2011, 12 patients with iris melanoma received PBR to the entire iris and ciliary body. RESULTS: Patients had a mean age of 57 years and a median follow-up of 3.5 years (range 1-11.6…

BACKGROUND: The issues of underweight and short stature are significant yet underrepresented in the literature. AIM: This study examines the prevalence of changes in underweight and short stature among Polish youth from 1938 to 2020. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Utilising five cross-sectional data sets from Kraków, Pol…

Academic productivity, demonstrated by a record of scholarly publication, is the main criterion for academic promotion. Nevertheless, there are no data on early-career productivity milestones to guide young faculty members aspiring to attain professor status. We performed a bibliometric analysis to determine the number…

BACKGROUND: The most common type of gallbladder cancer is the adenocarcinoma. The squamous cell carcinoma represents only a 0-12% of all gallbladder tumors. METHODS: 124 cases of malignant neoplasias of the gallbladder were diagnosed during the last 33 years in the Department of Surgery of our hospital. From these cas…

PURPOSE: This study aims to evaluate surgical outcomes as well as determine risk factors following gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy (GATT). METHODS: Retrospective observational study including 185 eyes (185 patients, mean age 66.7 ± 10.7 years) who underwent GATT procedure. Intraocular…

Long-term trends in the spatial distributions and sources of metal(loid)s in soils adjacent to the west coastal areas of South Korea have been systematically investigated for 10 years (2010-2019). Monitoring in 17 sites clearly showed site- and region-specific distributions, being associated with land use type (signifi…

OBJECTIVES: To explore the attitudes, views and understanding of women attending a Hindu temple in London, UK towards cervical screening, human papillomavirus (HPV) testing and two HPV self-sample collection devices: the Dacron swab and Evalyn(®) brush. METHODS: A mixed methods design comprising a survey and four…

Paediatric HIV infection continues to pose a serious threat in the developing world. While in the developed world, mother to child transmission has been reduced to less than 3%, in India no regular zidovudine (azidothymidine) intervention programmes operate. Some 20 million babies are born each year and the number of i…

BACKGROUND: In western societies, the prevalence of adenocarcinoma of the gastroesophageal junction has increased in recent years. It is commonly accepted today that esophageal adenocarcinoma develops from a premalignant lesion: Barrett's esophagus. This type of carcinoma is hardly diagnosed at early stages, which resu…

In 1983, we reported results from the Oxford Family Planning Association contraceptive study regarding the association between oral contraceptives (OCs) and cervical neoplasia, after a 10 year follow-up of a cohort of 17,000 women. Further findings from this study are reported here after an additional 12 years of follo…

This study examined the epidemiological characteristics of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) presenting in Canterbury, New Zealand, between 1970 and 1999. All patients with type 1 DM aged 0-19 years at diagnosis within the Canterbury geographical region were either admitted to the regional hospital or seen acutely as outpa…

Sixty renal transplantations were performed in 53 children, 0.4-16.0 years of age during the last 10 years. Fifty-five percent of the children were < or = 7 years at transplantation and 23% were < or = 2 years. Congenital nephropathies were the primary disease in 79%. Preemptive transplantation was performed in 24 firs…

OBJECTIVE: To describe and evaluate our experience with robotically assisted laparoscopic staging of endometrial cancer in first hundred cases as compared with the first and last 30 cases of patients staged by this method. DESIGN: Comparative retrospective study. SETTING: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Fac…

Common walnut (Juglans regia L) is an economically important species cultivated worldwide for its high-quality wood and nuts. It is generally accepted that after the last glaciation J. regia survived and grew in almost completely isolated stands in Asia, and that ancient humans dispersed walnuts across Asia and into ne…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the clinical and radiological results of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using the anterior-posterior glide (APG) low contact stress (LCS) mobile-bearing system. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We evaluated 130 knees in 117 patients who had undergone TKA with APG LCS mobile-bearing system between September 2…

BACKGROUND/AIM OF STUDY: Liver transplantation was first performed in 1967, and has become an accepted form of treatment worldwide for chronic liver diseases, acute liver failure and certain metabolic diseases. We document our experience in Singapore over the last 7 years since the first transplant was performed in 199…

We compared arthroscopic partial menisectomy with limited debridement versus arthroscopic abrasion arthroplasty in patients with osteoarthritis. Group I consisted of 131 knees in 131 patients treated by partial meniscectomy and debridement of loose articular cartilage or removal of loose bodies. All patients had grade…

Fifteen patients with primary lymphoma of breast are reported from a 30-year review. Eight of the patients were diagnosed in the last 5 years of this review, suggesting either an increase in the incidence or an increasing awareness of this condition. The age range was from 17 to 77 years. All patients presented with a…