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From 1971 through 1975, 59 children with hypospadias were operated upon at the Department of Paediatric Surgery of the University Children's Hospital Zürich. The external meatus was penile in 52 and scrotal or perineal in 7 cases. Average patient age at the time of definitive repair was 5 1/2 years. Fistulas or wo…

Until 1980, 300 cases of gastric volvulus had been reported in the literature. Of these only 50 had presented in children. The disease is considered rare. We reviewed our experience at Sainte-Justine, in the last 30 years and found 10 cases, all of which diagnosed since 1980. Four patients were under one year of age. T…

During the years 1945-1980 260 testicular tumors were registered in the two western provinces of Austria ( Tyrol and Vorarlberg ). The histological slices of these tumors were revised and classified according to the revised "British Classification" ( Pugh 1976). 91.9% of investigated testicular tumors were of germinal…

In the examined number of patients the ulcerous colitis played only a secondary role concerning the frequency. A decrease in the last five years could be explained by an improved ambulatory care. This clinical picture is, however, important on account of the inclination to recidivations and the acute complications. Of…

The outcomes during the period 1950--1972 were compared for Wilms' tumor patients in Erie County, New York (Buffalo and environs) and in a random selection of 23 counties having much smaller populations. For the Erie cohorts of 1967 to 1972 an 87 per cent 7-year survival rate was found as compared with a 50 per cent su…

Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) with preservation of the inferior vena cava (IVC) was performed in 7 patients during a period of 7 weeks. For 5 years in this center are realized 180 OLT, the last 93 of them with preservation VCI (51.6%). This method had important advantages versus standard operation--blood loss…

The methodology of a retrospective study of the side-effects of the most prescribed lipid lowering drugs, essentially fibrates, is described. This study concerns the last 5-years reports to the French System of Pharmacovigilance, centralized in the common data-base located in Lyon. During this period 36,875 reports wer…

BACKGROUND: Hypophosphatemic rickets is associated with delayed walking, bone deformities, growth failure and physical dysfunction that can limit daily activities. Treatment consists of phosphate salts and calcitriol. We report a case that received denosumab with marked improvement in her condition. CASE PRESENTATION:…

This study discusses the climatological aspects of the most severe drought ever recorded in the semiarid region Northeast Brazil. Droughts are recurrent in the region and while El Nino has driven some of these events others are more dependent on the tropical North Atlantic sea surface temperature fields. The drought af…

During the last 30 years, the median survival time and 5-year survival rate of esophageal cancer have improved significantly. In recent years, two major factors have greatly contributed to improve the outcomes of treatment for esophageal cancer in Japan. One is the establishment of endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To review the changes in the cost-effectiveness of cataract surgery in the last few decades. RECENT FINDINGS: Cataract surgery is the commonly performed procedure and it has evolved through various techniques, namely extracapsular cataract extraction, phacoemulsification and small or microincision c…

The study provides the body mass index (BMI), the prevalence of overweight (OW) and obesity (OB) in Lithuanian children and adolescents, 1985-2002. In the 2000-2002 more than 9000 schoolchildren of 7-18 years old were investigated in the 5 biggest towns and surrounding settlements of Lithuania. These data were compared…

OBJECT: Meningioangiomatosis is an uncommon clinical entity. This lesion has been reported at time of autopsy in patients with neurofibromatosis (NF) and in case reports of patients without NF Type 2 (NF2). The authors report a series of six patients with meningioangiomatosis who do not have NF2 and describe the clinic…

Human cysticercosis, an infection caused by larvae of Taenia solium, is a major public health problem in many developing countries. Sixty-two of 23,402 biopsy cases have been detected as cysticercosis in the last 5 years in Patan Hospital. Most (82%) of the patients presented with solitary skin nodules, another 10% wit…

IMPORTANCE: Accurate and timely documentation of vital signs affects all aspects of triage, diagnosis, and management. The adequacy of current patient monitoring practices and the potential to improve on them are poorly understood. OBJECTIVE: To develop measures of fit between documented and actual patient vital signs…

The aims of this study are: (1) to determine cause-specific survival by stage, grade, and molecular groups of breast cancer, (2) to identify factors which explain and predict the likelihood of survival and the risk of dying from this cancer; and (3) to find out the distribution of breast cancer cases by stage, grade, a…

PURPOSE: To present the long-term outcomes of photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) combined with accelerated corneal cross-linking (CXL) for refractive error correction in a series of keratoconus suspects. SETTING: University practice. DESIGN: Retrospective case series. METHODS: A series of patients with topographic fi…

BACKGROUND: The number of long time survivors of childhood cancer treatment is constantly increasing over the last decades as a result of advances in diagnosis and treatment. The occurrence of second neoplasms is one of most serious late effects observed in cancer survivors. METHODS: The risk of secondary neoplasm was…

BACKGROUND: We report the epidemiological characteristics of tuberculosis(TB) in the area of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) between 1995 and 1998. METHODS: Inclusion criteria were: 1) microbiological and/or pathological diagnosis of TB in any specimen, and 2) consistent recent medical history of TB with reading > 5 mm…

From 1970 to 1992 a total of 63 patients underwent operation for ampullary tumor: 40 pancreatoduodenectomies (PDs), 3 total PDs, 8 ampullectomies, and 12 bypass or exploratory laparotomies. The resectability rate was 68%. There were 9 benign tumors, 1 anaplastic tumor, and 53 adenocarcinomas. According to Martin's clas…