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Experiences in pancreatic surgery revealed substantial mortality decrease in pancreatic resections and these procedure became treatment of the first choice for resectable pancreatic tumors in last ten years. Our results support this experience, we performed pancreatic resections in 51% of 155 patients we operated on in…

The large scale employment in recent years of vasoactive drugs in the treatment of impotence forms the basis for a significant statistical study on incidence of complications and collateral effects. We studied 658 patients submitted to ICF (intracavernous pharmacoinfusion) diagnostic and therapeutic in the last 6 years…

OBJECTIVE: To estimate squamous cell cervical cancer incidence within 3.5 years of 1, 2 and > or = 3 consecutive, normal cytologic tests. STUDY DESIGN: Data were from a case-control study of cervical cancer screening efficacy. Long-term members of a prepaid health plan diagnosed with cancer from 1983 to 1995 (the case…

OBJECTIVES: We currently see an increase of demand of vasectomy reversion, mainly due to the wish of recovering fertility. METHODS: We review 21 cases of vasovasostomy performed at our department over the last 5 years with the single layer technique under optical magnification, comparing our results with those from bi…

Data on squamous carcinoma of the cervix from a 20 year study period (1955 to 1974) in metropolitan Toledo revealed a 66% reduction of the average annual age-adjusted incidence rate and a 61% reduction in death rate of cervical squamous carcinoma when the first time period (1955 to 1958) was compared with the last time…

Our objective was to study the clinical characteristics and natural history of monomelic amyotrophy (MMA). We used a retrospective study of 279 patients diagnosed to have either upper (Hirayama disease) or lower limb MMA. Results showed that brachial MMA (BMMA) occurred in 224 patients (male:female, 9:1). Mean age of o…

BACKGROUND: The ACR 1997, SLICC 2012 and EULAR/ACR 2019 classification criteria were validated based on adult patients. To date, there are no classification criteria specific for children with SLE. The aim of the study is to compare the performance characteristics among the three SLE classification criteria (ACR-1997,…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the very long-term clinical and functional outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients followed by office-based or hospital-based physicians. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A questionnaire including items on clinical outcomes (active disease, remission, burn-out) and the Health Assessment Questionnai…

In Veneto, like in Italy, in the last years the course of the professional diseases shown a trend in reduction. This trend has had to the difficulty to recognize the professional aetiology of multifactorial diseases. In the Venice the analysis of the course of the professional diseases in last the 4-5 years has demonst…

BACKGROUND: The details about the research productivity of the biomedical journals published from India is lacking. We analyzed the publishing trends and the research productivity of the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India (JAPI). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a bibliometric analysis of a biomedical jo…

A report is given on the therapy and results of 16 men with a mammary carcinoma during the last 15 years. The analysis shows the dependence of therapeutic treatment and prognosis of the state of tumour, especially of the metastases in regional lymphnodes. By applying a combined surgical-radiological treatment a surviva…

A cross-sectional study evaluated 182 students in the last two years of medical school and 70 residents of a national hospital in Peru on the risk indicators used for reporting results in clinical trials. A questionnaire was used to assess the ability to recognize and calculate risk indicators most widely used in the e…

Medicolegal evaluation of 1495 cases of unnatural death of last 10 years was carried out in our department and the data so obtained were statistically analysed. The cases consisted of 260 inspections, 865 judicial autopsies and 370 administrative autopsies. The most frequent category was death from diseases followed by…

In a review of 1057 patients who started receiving chronic haemodialysis treatment during the last decade in 16 renal units of Northern Greece only 25 patients (2.36%) were found to be older than 74 years at start of haemodialysis treatment. The most common cardiovascular problems in these elderly patients were angina…

The relation between hormonal and lifestyle factors and breast cancer risk in women younger than 40 years was investigated using data from two case-control studies conducted in Italy between 1983 and 1994. Cases were 579 women with histologically confirmed, incident breast cancer and controls were 668 women admitted to…

The paper reports on the casuistics of the colon cancer in the Clinic of Surgery of the "Griviţa" Clinical Hospital, for 21 years (1966-1986) with emphasis on the situs peculiarities on the right and left colon. Whereas the left colon cancer (LCC) started in 32% of cases with subocclusive and occlusive syndromes…

A changing climate is expected to introduce uncertainty into water resource management decision making. We examined the latest publicly-available, state-level guidance regarding the management of water supplies and demands concerning risks associated with drought, flooding, and climate change. We found state-level guid…

The occurrence of eclampsia in the last two decades in the women's hospital of the University of Goettingen was evaluated. In a total of 32,578 birth there was an incidence of 0.11%. Maternal mortality was 16.2%, perinatal mortality 19.5%. 73% of the patients were primiparae, 24.3% unmarried pregnant women. A regressio…

BACKGROUND: The status of sensitization in kidney transplant recipients in the last 10 years and the trend of induction and maintenance therapy in patients of different panel-reactive antibody (PRA) levels have not been analyzed. The aim of this study was to investigate the current status of pre-transplant sensitizatio…