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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…

INTRODUCTION: Expandable endoprostheses are used to restore limb function and compensate for the sacrifice physis involved in carcinologic resection. Long-term outcomes of the last generation of knee "non-invasive" expandable endoprostheses are required. Objectives were to report on oncologic results of bone sarcoma re…

A 7.5 years girl presented with myoclonic jerks with prolonged duration coming progressively at shorter intervals for last six moinths. There was declining academic performances. The dystonic, dyskinetic movements and ataxia were there for last three months. The stages were progressing too rapidly. IgG antibody titre t…

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…

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…

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…

A retrospective study of the causes of maternal mortality over the past 20 years in the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, was undertaken. Anaesthesia contributed to 4.4% of all maternal deaths and to 5.7% of 'true' maternal deaths. In the last 10 years studied it did not contribute to maternal mortality. It was conc…

BACKGROUND: Globally, few published studies have tracked the temporal trend of dioxin levels in the human body since 2000. This study describes the annual trend of dioxin levels in human breast milk in Japanese mothers from 1998 through 2015. METHODS: An observational study was conducted from 1998 through 2015. Partic…

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: Menarche is the endpoint of a sequence of maturational events of female puberty. The timing of menarche is a strongly heritable trait. However, secular trends suggest that lifestyle and environmental factors are important. To assess the trend in age at menarche (AAM), and its associated factors in İsta…

Various rates of the short- and long-term recurrence of takotsubo syndrome (TTS) (RTTS) have been reported, but the absence, or the short length of the follow-up implemented is such, that the true rate of RTTS continues to be unknown. Experience has shown that a sizeable proportion of patients with an index TTS suffer…

The experience of the Cardiac Electrostimulation Center of S. Camillo Hospital in Rome on 1503 patients treated with permanent pacemakers for an 11 year period is referred. The Authors analyze the increase of the activity of the Center during these years and some events that caused it. 94.5% of the patients were more t…

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…

Although thyroid carcinoma is more common in the adult population, the risk of a nodule being malignant is greater in children. The aim of our present investigation was to ascertain the percentage of malignancy in nodular goiter observed in patients from the Lower Silesia region in the last 12 years. The examination in…

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…

BACKGROUND: The interval between successive births (birth interval) may affect breast cancer risk, whereas interval from last birth to cancer onset may modify its behaviour. METHODS: The study cohort consisted of 29 488 Finnish grand multiparous (GM) women, including 628 women with breast cancer. Conditional logistic…

This article is a collaborative effort of five nurses who have worked together for a total of 173 collective years. We have experienced vast changes in the field of neonatology during the last 40 years and wish to share some of the significant developments as we experienced them in our unit. We realize that the various…

To determine whether the accuracy of the genetic evaluations of sires can be assessed by the presence of extreme daughter records, we studied herd-years with records from first-crop daughters of 217 Holstein bulls that were not sampled by artificial insemination (AI) organizations but that later entered AI. The presenc…