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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the accuracy of split three-dimensional (3D) printing patient-specific instrumentation (PSI) in medial open-wedge high tibial osteotomy (MOWHTO) and its effectiveness in treating medial knee osteoarthritis. METHODS: Clinical data of 14 patients with medial knee osteoarthritis and treated with…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the improved reduction technique for depression fractures of the lateral tibial plateau and its effectiveness. METHODS: Between January 2008 and December 2010; 48 patients (48 knees) with depression fractures of the lateral tibial plateau (Schatzker II or III fractures) were treated. There we…

BACKGROUND: We compared patient- and family-reported overall and stool-related quality of life (QoL) before and after an antegrade continence enema (ACE) procedure (cecostomy tube insertion) for refractory chronic constipation or fecal incontinence (CCFI). We hypothesized that patients with functional diagnoses experie…

BACKGROUND: Nasal septum perforations from surgical submucous resection, septoplasty, blunt trauma, and substance abuse may cause epistaxis, nasal obstruction, discharge, crusting, dryness, pain, and whistling. While small symptomatic perforations are closed with local mucosal flaps, options for closure of large sympto…

BACKGROUND: In elderly patients with diabetic nephropathy, clinical information aiming at preventing a decline of the renal function is limited. OBJECTIVE: To clarify factors that could be related to changes in renal function in elderly diabetic patients with persistent albuminuria. METHODS: We studied the relationsh…

The presence of transmitted HIV drug resistance (TDR) threatens the efficacy of antiretroviral treatment. We aimed to assess the changes in TDR prevalence over the last decade in Madrid, Spain, to verify the role of the patients' risk groups in these changes. We analysed the trends of TDR between 2000 and 2011 in a coh…

PURPOSE: To report the results of plication augmentation of the augmented Anderson procedure in patients with infantile nystagmus syndrome and face turn. METHODS: In this retrospective study, all patients who underwent plication augmentation of the augmented Anderson procedure between August 2015 and November 2018 wer…

BACKGROUND: This study was conducted in Yazd Province, Central Iran aimed to investigate the relationship between adverse events and breast cancer during 2012-2014. METHODS: Hospital-based case-control study of 150 women with breast cancer and 150 healthy women (did not have breast cancer) was conducted. Sampling was…

OBJECTIVE: To determine immunity to tetanus in male blood donors with previous diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT)/tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccination. DESIGN: A cross sectional study, conducted in September 1999. SETTING: Blood bank, Muhimbili Medical Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. METHODS: Using an antigen competitio…

The results of the study of Enterovirus as viral meningoencephalitis producing agents, carried out from 1990 to 1994, are described, 546 feces samples, 95 cerebrospinal fluids and 1,058 matched sera were studied and obtained from 1,388 patients clinically diagnosed with this disease. Samples for viral isolation were in…

We have reported on the clinical courses of 4 cases of adult Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) infection, and the autopsy findings of 2 cases, those we have observed over the past 5 years. They were 2 cases of meningitis, 1 case of meningitis and sepsis and 1 case of sepsis. These 4 cases had CML, neoplastic angioendothelios…

Clinical and radiological results of total hip replacement with proximally coated stems are discussed. Material included 90 hips (50 ABG stems, 40 Level III stems) in 83 patients (59 females, 24 males), mean age 48 years (range 17-22) and mean follow-up of 27 months (range 1-5 years). No stems were revised, the average…

Second malignant neoplasms (SMN) in individuals who survived childhood cancer have been reported with increasing frequency during the last decades. The overall probability of developing second malignancy for children treated for cancer was estimated at about 2-5% at 25 years. In children, the tumors most often associat…

The healing potential of the meniscal tissue has been known for a century but has only been broadly introduced into surgical treatment during the last years. Open surgical suture of the meniscus has increasingly been replaced by arthroscopic refixation. We report 34 meniscal refixations with a minimal follow-up of at l…

An analysis is presented, of the experience acquired in the II-nd Surgical Clinic of Cluj-Napoca in connection with 150 cases of postthrombotic syndrome followed and treated over the last 5 years (1983-1987). Considerations are made concerning terminology, and evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic means applied. The…

The onset of functional psychosis occurring in later middle age (45-64 years) was studied by comparing the life situation and personal history of 74 Turku patients admitted to the mental hospital for the first time with the corresponding information obtained for randomly selected controls of the same age and of the sam…

The authors present the five-year healing results of 4347 uterine cervix cancers treated at our Radiotherapeutic Institute within the years of 1928 to 1977. The part of patients irradiated postoperatively increased by 30% during this period, and the average age of patients at the beginning of their disease increased by…

Inheritedgene mutations (pathogenic variants) cause 10% of breast cancers.pathogenic variants predispose carriers to triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC); around 30% of patients with TNBC carrypathogenic variants. The 2018 NCCN Guidelines for Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment: Breast and Ovarian recommend genetic c…

(Chevrolat) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) is a serious wood-boring insect of mulberry trees (spp.). Larvae of this species enter the trunk of the tree and feed on woody tissues.is endemic in several Asian countries, while, in the last decade, it invaded Europe. In the present work, we evaluated trunk injection against thi…

OBJECTIVES: Mastalgia is a common and painful experience among women. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of breast pain, characteristics of the pain, and factors associated with breast pain, particularly those that can be changed. METHODS: This cross-sectional study comprised women aged from 18 to 65 years.…