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Hip resurfacing has been considered a good treatment option for younger, active osteoarthritis patients. However, there are several identified issues concerning risk for neck fractures and issues related to current metal-on-metal implant designs. Neck-preserving short-stem implants have been discussed as a potential al…

BACKGROUND: In patients over 65 years, pertrochanteric proximal femur fractures are very common, with an incidence of 966/100,000. Treatment of choice is nailing or dynamic hip screws. The operative approaches are standardised and easy to learn. PURPOSE: We want to demonstrate the operation technique by video and our…

Over the last seven years, and especially in 2001, a declining coverage for MMR vaccination in 2-year-olds has been noted in Sweden. By recording actual date of vaccination in a cohort of almost 4,000 children in a county in central Sweden, we found that parents' decision to postpone vaccination by up to 1.5 years beyo…

The relation between diabetes and prostate cancer risk was investigated in a combined analysis of two hospital-based case-control studies conducted in Italy and Greece, between 1985 and 1997. Cases were 608 men with incident prostate cancer, and controls were 1008 men admitted to hospital for acute non-neoplastic disea…

We investigated whether survival was related to recent childbirth or parity in a cohort of 540 women diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 45 years who were followed for up to 14 years. Women who had given birth within 2 years before their diagnosis of breast cancer were at increased risk of dying, compared wi…

We have used data from children at an Aboriginal settlement in Queensland to demonstrate the changing patterns of growth over the last 30 years. In cohorts of children born during the early 1950s and 1960s the mean weight-for-age value was satisfactory for the first three months of life, but then fell until aged 12 mon…

This paper analyzes 320 cases of colorectal adenocarcinoma at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria over a period of 18 years. The sex ratio was 1.5:1 in favor of males; the average age when first seen was 44 years. The symptom complex was weight loss, bloody mucoid stool, altered bowel habit, and abdominal…

BACKGROUND: Competing challenges in adolescence and young adulthood can distract from optimal type 1 diabetes (T1D) self-management, and increase risks of premature morbidity and mortality. There are limited data mapping the glycemic control of people with T1D in this age group, across Australasia. RESEARCH DESIGN AND…

Affective disorders and impulsivity are quite common when using anabolic substances, in this case-study one of the rather rare cases of a psychotic disorder following the abuse of androgenic steroids is described. A 30-year old formerly healthy white male was admitted as inpatient to psychiatric hospital showing sympto…

Oceans cover more than two-thirds of our blue planet. The waters move in a global circulation system, driven by subtle density differences and transporting huge amounts of heat. Ocean circulation is thus an active and highly nonlinear player in the global climate game. Increasingly clear evidence implicates ocean circu…

Embolization using IDC was carried out for 33 aneurysm cases in the last 3 years. The indication for the embolization was that the direct surgery was considered to be difficult, because of 1) technically impossible to do clipping, 2) aneurysm of the posterior fossa, 3) reject of patients. Regarding the location of aneu…

In the last 2 years we have performed 100 laparoscopic varicocele ligations. The indications for surgery were pain, a small testicle or prevention of subfertility. 4 patients had undergone previous embolization therapy or open operation and developed recurrences. 5 patients had bilateral varicocele. No severe intraoper…

A summary of the proceedings of the third world congress on psychiatric genetics is presented. The meeting was held in New Orleans on October 2-5, 1993 and brought together researchers from around the world. The International Society of Psychiatric Genetics sponsored and organized this meeting. Rapid advances of the la…

Morbidity, prevalence, temporary loss of capacity for work and invalidity due to rheumatic diseases for the last 5 years in the Ukraine are analysed. Ways of further improvement of rheumatological service are determined. Aspects of coordinated approach to the solution of urgent rheumatological problems on the part of d…

The sequel of a resolution of the West German Länder Ministries of Health in 1982 was the development of the Federal Health project Community-Oriented Health Education (1984-1989). This project was managed by the Federal Agency for Health Promotion in Cologne. Berlin-Steglitz is one of the Public Health offices in…

In the last 2 years, much progress has been made in colorectal cancer research. Many of the findings, especially those involving adjuvant therapy, have important clinical applications. For example, fluorouracil (5-FU) (Adrucil) combined with levamisole hydrochloride (Ergamisol) is now recommended as adjuvant therapy fo…

In the last ten years molecular biology has defined the role of oncogenes in the pathogenesis of malignant blood diseases. Included among these are: chronic myelogenous leukemia, with abl oncogene; Burkitt's lymphoma, where myc oncogene is translocated from chromosome 8 to chromosomes 2, 14 or 22 near immunoglobulin ge…

Since the first reported case of human dirofilariasis in 1964, a total of 56 cases have been recorded from Japan, including 39 pulmonary and 16 extra-pulmonary cases. The difference in case number between pulmonary and extre-pulmonary sites is statistically highly significant (P = 0.001). Distribution of the lesion in…

In our Department, the incidence of sensitization to cobalt has more than doubled in the last 5 years. 28% of cobalt-sensitive patients showed no other sensitivity. Of isolated cobalt sensitive patients, 68% were housewives. We determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry with a graphite camera, the cobalt and nic…

Nine cases of glossopharyngeal neuralgia have been seen in the last 5 years and are reported. They fall into 2 groups, namely otitic and oropharyngeal, according to the initial location of pain. The condition is probably more common than is recognised, largely because there are diagnostic difficulties with the otitic f…