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PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: From 1983 to 1986, 156 alumina/polyethylene combination hip arthroplasties (131 patients) were performed at the Henri Mondor Hospital. Before 1983, the stainless-steel/polyethylene combination was performed. In this follow-up study, the outcome of the first 156 consecutive alumine-polyethylene com…

PURPOSE: To highlight the characteristics of the 100 most-cited articles on arthroscopy and provide the variation trend of citation rate among the top 25 articles in the past 9 years. We further analyzed the topics of interest in the past or currently. METHODS: The Thomson ISI Web of Science database was used to ident…

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies suggest that lower total cholesterol (TC) may be associated with higher mortality. This study aimed to evaluate whether a decline in TC before death might account for the association of TC with mortality over age 80 years. METHODS: Cohort study using primary care electronic health r…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the early effectiveness of transosseous suture fixation in treating recurrent acute patellar dislocation with patellar osteochondral fractures (OCFs). METHODS: A retrospective analysis was conducted on 19 patients with recurrent acute patellar dislocation and patellar OCFs, who underwent transos…

BACKGROUND: The ACR 1997, SLICC 2012 and EULAR/ACR 2019 classification criteria were validated based on adult patients. To date, there are no classification criteria specific for children with SLE. The aim of the study is to compare the performance characteristics among the three SLE classification criteria (ACR-1997,…

This paper examines the spontaneous evolution of original work in family practice as published in The Journal of Family Practice over the 15-year period since it began publication in 1974. An analysis was carried out by principal content and type of paper for the last five years in a manner comparable to an earlier ana…

OBJECTIVE: To estimate squamous cell cervical cancer incidence within 3.5 years of 1, 2 and > or = 3 consecutive, normal cytologic tests. STUDY DESIGN: Data were from a case-control study of cervical cancer screening efficacy. Long-term members of a prepaid health plan diagnosed with cancer from 1983 to 1995 (the case…

A sample of 190 male and female "high school" students completed a sleep questionnaire for the first time when they were 10 to 14 years old. The survey was repeated five times at 2 year intervals. Ninety-three subjects answered the questionnaire each time. Subjective sleep need was assessed by the indicated wish for mo…

OBJECTIVE: ?To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of one-stage posterior retaining part facet joint in laminectomy, bone graft and debridement combined with short segmental pedicle screw fixation for lumbosacral spinal tuberculosis. METHODS: ?Between January 2010 and December 2014, 32 cases of lumbosacral spin…

This article reviews the history of dental therapy as it has led up to currently available options for the treatment of sleep-related breathing disorders with an emphasis on oral appliance therapy. Over the last 20 years and in particular the last 5 to 7 years the contribution as well as the effectiveness of oral appli…

Over the last 5 years a number of articles have been published on gene therapy for a range of diseases. The initial tone of a number of these articles evoked high expectations, particularly from the public. Over the last 2-3 years data from these studies have begun to filter through and, perhaps not surprisingly, initi…

Experiences in pancreatic surgery revealed substantial mortality decrease in pancreatic resections and these procedure became treatment of the first choice for resectable pancreatic tumors in last ten years. Our results support this experience, we performed pancreatic resections in 51% of 155 patients we operated on in…

Data on squamous carcinoma of the cervix from a 20 year study period (1955 to 1974) in metropolitan Toledo revealed a 66% reduction of the average annual age-adjusted incidence rate and a 61% reduction in death rate of cervical squamous carcinoma when the first time period (1955 to 1958) was compared with the last time…

A cross-sectional study evaluated 182 students in the last two years of medical school and 70 residents of a national hospital in Peru on the risk indicators used for reporting results in clinical trials. A questionnaire was used to assess the ability to recognize and calculate risk indicators most widely used in the e…

Medicolegal evaluation of 1495 cases of unnatural death of last 10 years was carried out in our department and the data so obtained were statistically analysed. The cases consisted of 260 inspections, 865 judicial autopsies and 370 administrative autopsies. The most frequent category was death from diseases followed by…

In a review of 1057 patients who started receiving chronic haemodialysis treatment during the last decade in 16 renal units of Northern Greece only 25 patients (2.36%) were found to be older than 74 years at start of haemodialysis treatment. The most common cardiovascular problems in these elderly patients were angina…

OBJECTIVES: We currently see an increase of demand of vasectomy reversion, mainly due to the wish of recovering fertility. METHODS: We review 21 cases of vasovasostomy performed at our department over the last 5 years with the single layer technique under optical magnification, comparing our results with those from bi…

A report is given on the therapy and results of 16 men with a mammary carcinoma during the last 15 years. The analysis shows the dependence of therapeutic treatment and prognosis of the state of tumour, especially of the metastases in regional lymphnodes. By applying a combined surgical-radiological treatment a surviva…