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Carotenodermia is a yellow to orange skin discoloration due to epidermal deposition of carotene. This can be due to an abnormality in the conversion of β-carotene to vitamin A, hyperlipidemia, or high dietary carotene intake. Here, I review approximately 100 previous cases of carotenodermia in humans due to high…

There are few hospitals performing kidney transplantation. Thereby the residency in radiodiagnostics does not allow to master the essential skills of follow up kidney transplantation except in the case of staying in such a transplantation center. Furthermore, in the last 20 years the scientific publications related to…

Data from the last 50 years suggest that pediatric patients typically suffer cardiothoracic injuries following blunt traumatic force (70%) in the setting of either motor vehicle crashes (53.5%) or vehicle-pedestrian accidents (18.2%). Penetrating trauma accounts for 30% of pediatric cardiothoracic injuries, half of whi…

Over the last years there has been a decline in the number of physicians in Sweden who are involved in medical research. To increase the proportion of physicians involved in research, several initiatives have been made. In the spring of 2017 a survey was conducted among all medical students at the Sahlgrenska Academy,…

Results of retrospective analysis of 8397 medical records accumulated in the otorhinolaryngological department of a regional hospital for the last 15 years are presented. The patients were admitted for the treatment of rhinosinusitis. A total of 269 (3.5%) orbital complications were documented. All age groups of the pa…

In the last 5 years, many efforts have been conducted searching potent and selective human A(3) adenosine antagonists. In this field several different classes of compounds, possessing very good affinity (nM range) and with a broad range of selectivity, have been proposed. Recently, our group synthesized a new series of…

Starting from prospective clinical studies that have evaluated its benefits and risks, hormone replacement therapy in menopause women has been reassessed in its indications in the last four years. In October, 2004 a Latinamerican Experts Consensus was carried out, such report with some modifications is presented in thi…

Epidemiological analysis of patients with the larynx and hypopharynx cancer, who were treated in the Department of Otolaryngology in Bialystok from 1999 to 2004 was performed. The following aspect were assessed: (1) number of patients, (2) sex, (3) profession and place of living, (4) primary site of the tumour, (5) cli…

PROBLEM: In revision alloarthroplasty the need for bone allografts increased. The documentation of the defects is not done routinely. METHOD: For better documentation the German Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology (DGOT) developed a new and practical defect classification system. It was tested clinically in the l…

OBJECTIVE: To report confirmed cases of spontaneous testicular ascent in patients with a cryptorchid testis which had been previously placed in the scrotum. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Between 1972 and 1992, 46 cryptorchid testes (36 patients), which were previously verified to be in the scrotum by staff paediatricians or p…

This preliminary report, of a longitudinal study, looks at the relationship between geomagnetic activity and the incidence of isolated sleep paralysis over a 23.5-mo. period. The author, who has frequently and for the last 24 years experienced isolated sleep paralysis was the subject. In addition, incidence of lucid dr…

One hundred and sixty-five cholecystectomies were performed in the 12 year period 1980-1991 Only 67 were performed in the first 10 year period but in the last 2 years (1990-1991), 98 patients underwent cholecystectomy. While patients with biliary tract disease occupied 0.4% of General Surgical beds in 1966-68 patients…

Mycotoxins have been named "agents in search of a disease," and the considerable progress in analytical methodology over the last 10 years has not changed this very much. The following are factors that contribute to the difficulty of making a diagnosis: (1) nonspecificity of lesions; (2) masking of mycotoxic effects by…

Mycoses of the hairy part of the head have been effectively treated in the two last decades in Armenia. The number of trichophytosis patients has reduced from 32.7 per 100,000 in 1965 to 5.4 per 100,000 in 1987. The share of anthroponotic trichophytosis among all trichophytosis forms has reduced from 24.9 to 6.7 percen…

One hundred and seventy five cerclage operations had been performed in the last 5 years; this was 85 times connected with an extrascleral invagination, Paufique's pocket was applied in 3 cases of macular holes and additionally in 3 cases an injection of SF6 gas was used. The operation was performed in 5 aphakic eyes an…

Various alloplastic materials have been used to reestablish proper function of paretic upper eyelids. Modifying Morel-Fatio's method, the spring had been bent in a W-fashion and located in such a position that three dimensional movement of the lower branch was possible. Complications of the original method like swellin…

In the last 7 years 53 patients with liver abscesses were treated at surgical clinic of Charité. Since November 1982 we treated in 27 cases with solitary and multiloculary liver abscesses by percutaneous drainage of the abscess diameter more than 3 to 4 cm. 12 patients with multiloculary small biliary liver absces…

This retrospective report deals with 1357 cases of colorectal cancer operated on in the last 26 years. It covers the main epidemiologic data, tumour locations, surgical approaches, follow-up and prognosis according to the extent of the cancer. The results are given for the entire period and then by fractions thereof, a…

To estimate the importance of a number of variables influencing the results of the lymphocyte transformation test (LTT), we analysed retrospectively the results of 250 LTTs on healthy control lymphocytes tested during the last 5 years as part of the routine LTT program. Prospectively, frozen cells from 3 donors were te…

Incidence of colorectal cancer is increasing during the last years. 5% of the population get affected. From these a group of patients with a higher carcinoma risk must be separated: that with adenomas, familial polyposis and ulcerative colitis. Nourishment seems to be one of the main factors for the development of canc…