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Simultaneous bilateral renal cell carcinoma has been treated in 5 patients at our hospital during the last 6 years. Improvements in radiologic diagnostic techniques are responsible for the increased detection of these lesions. Results of surgical management are reported. Angiographic embolization of renal cell carcinom…

This report describes a technique for the correction and fusion of scoliosis with the aid of a flexible metal rod that is fixed by wires under tension to the bases of the spinous processes on the convex side of the curve at a number of points. The results in a series of 100 cases are reported. In the last seventy patie…

3-4 weeks following an otherwise uncomplicated first vaccination against smallpox a boy, then aged 15 months and last seen at the age of 5 1/2 years, gradually developed a complete Kanner syndrome. The question whether vaccination and early infantile autism might be connected is being discussed. A causal relationship i…

Active surveillance (AS) of papillary thyroid microcarcinomas (PTMC) is emerging as an alternative to immediate surgery. While thermal ablation has also shown promise for low-risk PTMC, it has not been prospectively studied in patients appropriate for AS. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of ultrasou…

BACKGROUND: Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) occurs in 1% to 2% of total knee arthroplasties (TKAs). Although two-stage exchange is the preferred management method of patients with chronic PJI in TKA in North America, one-stage exchange is an alternative treatment method, but long-term studies of this approach have not…

Understanding the redistribution of soil organic carbon (OC) driven by erosion contributes to the global carbon budget and watershed management. Quantifying the sources of eroded OC in sediments provides new insights to addressing this issue. However, limited quantitative information on the factors influencing OC sourc…

In the last years, the need for new efficient video compression methods grown rapidly as frame resolution has increased dramatically. The Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) effort produced in 2013 the H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, which represents the state of the art in video codin…

BACKGROUND: Outbreaks ofpneumonia (PCP) in kidney transplant recipients are frequently reported worldwide. However, the general guidelines propose only short-term prophylaxis with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole after kidney transplantation. We experienced 3 PCP outbreaks in the last 10 years despite providing the recomm…

The revealing of benign neoplasms of various organs of alimentary system according to the data of Central Institute of gastroenterology during last 7 years was increased from 449 up to 1040 cases per year. The revealing of malignant neoplasms was kept at a same level (about 120 cases per year). The average revealing wa…

Anorexia nervosa is regarded as a serious mental disturbance, where denial of illness and strong resistance to treatment are symptomatic features. In many cases it leads to extreme devastation or even to death. Effective treatment of this disorder still remains a challenge for clinicians and researchers. Since the 90-i…

The fast and progressive growth of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical fields forces the development of new and powerful sensing techniques for process optimization and detection of biomolecules at very low concentrations. During the last years, the simplest MEMS structures, i.e. microcantilevers, have become an emerg…

BACKGROUND: Most published reviews concerning the endoscopic treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease date back to 2005. AIM: To provide an updated review that includes all papers published up to 2007. METHODS: A Medline search from January 2005 to June 2007 was performed regarding endoscopic procedures aiming…

OBJECTIVE: To inspect and describe the results of tracheotomies carried out at our ENT Department and to assess changes in indications over the last few decades. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Retrospective study of 13 patients, aged 3 months to 14 years, admitted by the ENT Department to the Paediatric ICU at Puerta del Mar U…

Central to the successful surgically treatment numerous liver diseases is the ability of the organ to regenerate. The understanding of the process of self-renewal has both changed and progressed over the last few decades. For many years, the assumption was that the liver regenerates primarily through the division of ma…

Despite its long history, the cloning of animals by nuclear transplantation is going through a "renaissance" after the birth of Dolly. The amount of work and achievements obtained in the last seven years are probably greater than those obtained in half a century of research. However, the principal obstacles outlined ye…

To evaluate the clinical effects of 5-fluorouracil in different mass concentrations combined with triamcinolone in the treatment of keloids.From March 2018 to March 2019, 29 patients with 31 keloids receipted in the Department of Plastic Surgery of Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, 11 patients with 20 keloids r…

OBJECTIVE: In 1989, Marks et al. reviewed the different assessment tools employed in the evaluation of psoriasis severity before 1986. Our objective was to reproduce this seminal review to describe the changes over the last 20 years with regard to the evaluation of psoriasis severity in randomized clinical trials. DAT…

Cancer is age-related. However, oncology and palliative medicine services focus on the needs of younger and middle-aged adults. This study examined trends in cancer deaths across age in Wales over the last 20 years. All Wales death certificates from 1981 to 2001 were examined for total and cancer deaths. Place of death…

INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) has been steadily increasing over the last thirty years, particularly among women. Due to the conflicting results of various studies on the link between rheumatoid arthritis and reproductive health, we have undertaken this study to explore their relationship. M…

We report the present day GNSS velocities (2015-2021) and strain rates in Himachal, Kashmir and Ladakh Himalaya covering the rupture zones of the 2005 Muzaffarabad earthquake and the 1905 Kangra earthquake. Geodetic strain rates estimated from GPS velocities of about 58 sites spanning last two decades of measurements i…