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Iatrogenic diseases which were an immediate cause of death or played an important role in thanatogenesis were found in 319 (14.2%) of 2250 autopsy cases of patients with surgical, therapeutical and neurosurgical pathology. Surgical iatrogenesis was established in 226 (70.8%), and therapeutical one in 59 (18.5%) cases.…

In December 1984, 424 students at the National Veterinary College, Lyon, France, were skin-tested with a phenol-soluble antigen of Brucella abortus B19. Of all students, 2.6% had a positive intradermal reaction indicating previous contact with Brucella. Prevalence of positive reactions was significantly lower among stu…

In a review of 549 cases of breast cancer in the last 16 years, 7 cases with lobular carcinoma have been studied. All of the patients appeared well and were without recurrence. Two cases had been lobular carcinomas in situ, one of which had arisen in a small fibroadenoma associated with malignant phyllodes tumor in the…

Three Arab children with congenital hypoplastic anaemia are reported. The three children presented with pallor in the first 3 months of life. All were given corticosteroids at different times. The first child is on high doses of prednisone and also needs blood transfusion every 6 weeks. The second child is on 5 mg pred…

During the last few decades there has been a steady rise of the incidence of upper urinary tract stones in the industrialized countries. Dietary factors, mainly an increased consumption of animal protein, probably explain part of this dramatic change. Little is, however, known how other components of the altered life s…

A KAP (knowledge, attitude and practice) survey was conducted among 500 fertile Hausa women of northern Nigeria aged 15-44 years to test their understanding about family planning and reproductive biology. Three hundred and fifty-six women (71.2%) were still not satisfied with their family size and only 185 women (37%)…

Of 296 occult breast cancers diagnosed at Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center, Los Angeles, in the last ten years, 80 were classified as minimal and 167 as nonminimal. Minimal cancers were intraductal, lobular in situ, or invasive and 0.5 cm or less in diameter. In the occult-minimal group, no woman had axillary node meta…

Cases of acquired methemoglobinemia have been identified with increasing frequency in Los Angeles during the last several years. Among 18 patients, both infants and adults, the most commonly incriminated agent was silver nitrate used for topical antibacterial prophylaxis of burn wounds. One burned child died from overw…

Mass immunization against tetanus has been organized in the Livny district of the Orel region. The centralized depository of the registration cards for all the vaccinees has been created at the reception department of the central district hospital. The continuity in the activities of the institutions for prophylaxis an…

The laboratories charged with dairy product control have had to determine the nitrates and nitrites especially for the examination of products in view of export. The use of nitrates is prohibited in France. Some E.E.C. countries however authorize its use in cheese-making. The L.C.H.A. has carried for the last several y…

Collection of 10 or more stones in the extrahepatic common bile duct causes lithiasic obstruction of the CBD, a fairly rare entity observed in less than 10% of cases of bile duct lithiasis. This study is based on 35 cases recorded over 10 years, including 60% in patients aged more than 75 years. Endoscopic treatment wa…

It has been speculated that insulin antibodies may contribute to the hypoglycemic attacks in insulin-treated diabetic patients. To address this hypothesis, we analyzed in a first part of the study the frequency to hypoglycemia in two groups of diabetic patients, one (Group A, 38 cases) with at least two episodes of sev…

Leucovorin (5-formyltetrahydrofolate, LV) is a reduced folate that has been in clinical use for many years as a rescue agent following methotrexate (MTX) therapy. Commercially available LV is a 1:1 mixture of [6R]-and [6S]-isomers. Due to the lack of a specific method for directly separating and quantitating the stereo…

BACKGROUND: Universal vaccination against hepatitis A virus (HAV) has been recommended for children because of the changing epidemiological pattern of HAV. Vaccination has also been advised for patients with chronic liver disease as HAV superinfection in these patients can result in severe or even fatal disease. In Ind…

INTRODUCTION: Patient-reported outcomes (PROMs) are increasingly relevant to assess surgical quality and guide decisions in breast reconstruction (BR). Satisfaction with outcomes may change as time progresses. We assessed satisfaction in patients who underwent free-flap BR in the last 12 years. METHODS: All patients w…

BACKGROUND: Hemispherectomy has an established role as a treatment of last resort in patients with unilateral hemispheric lesions suffering from refractory epilepsy. METHODS: Seven patients were evaluated at our Epilepsy Unit. We compared the seizure outcome at 6 months, 1, 2, 5 years post-surgery, as well as at end f…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the clinical and radiological results, as well as the survival rate, associated with total hip arthroplasty using a hydroxyapatite (HA)-coated anatomical femoral stem at a follow-up of ≥12 years. MATERIALS AND METHODS: From April 1992 to May 1997, 86 patients (102 hips) underwent total hip…

PURPOSE: Ileal conduit is considered a safe procedure and the gold standard to which newer forms of urinary diversion should be compared, although few long-term results are known. We analyzed a consecutive series of patients who lived a minimum of 5 years after ileal conduit diversion. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total o…

The association between oral contraceptive (OC) use and the risk of uterine fibroids was analyzed in a case-control study conducted between 1986-1990. The subjects were 390 patients under 55 years of age with histologically confirmed fibroids and 1136 controls in hospitals for a spectrum of acute conditions (other than…

We report a case of a 9-year-old girl presenting with unilateral retinal arteriovenous malformation (AVM) with symptomatic macular edema. Over 5 years of follow-up includes optical coherence tomography (OCT), fundus photographs, and fluorescein angiography at baseline and at follow-up. Systemic and neurologic workup wa…