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Neurilemmoma in postaural region arising from great auricular nerve is an extremely rare tumour. An 11 years boy presented with pain and swelling behind his left ear for last 3-4 years. The clinical examination revealed the swelling appeared to be diffuse with the margin being ill defined. On radiological examination a…

Studies on the treatment of nonsyndromic craniosynostosis demonstrate decreasing morbidity and mortality; however, complication rates still range from 5% to 14%. Here, the authors present their last 10 years' experience treatment of nonsyndromic single suture craniosynostosis. A retrospective review was performed on pa…

OBJECTIVE: To estimate changes in rates of cerebral infarction and intracerebral hemorrhage, comorbidity profile, and case fatality rates in Quebec over 15 years. METHODS: A population-based admission-to-discharge cohort study was conducted, selecting first stroke events from hospital discharge data (MedEcho) from 198…

BACKGROUND: Infectious spondylitis (IS) is an infrequent disease, although there are few data on its real incidence. To date, only one study, carried out in Denmark, that rigorously assesses the incidence of this disease has been published. OBJECTIVES: To determine the incidence of IS in the nonpediatric population of…

Cyclical intravenous bisphosphonate therapy is widely used to treat children with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), but little is known about long-term treatment outcomes. We therefore reviewed 37 children with OI (OI type I, n = 1; OI type III, n = 14; and OI type IV, n = 22) who…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical outcome of sensory reconstruction about the functional perforator flap for repairing the complex defects on the limbs. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was conducted on 21 patients with limb complex defects admitted between March 2018 and January 2023. There were 12 males and 9…

AIM: There is a lack of consensus in the international literature pertaining to the prevalence of tinnitus for the overall population, as well as sex and age sub-groups, suggesting the need for country-specific prevalence estimates. We aim to find prevalence estimates of tinnitus that are representative of the New Zeal…

BACKGROUND: In developing countries, home delivery without a skilled birth attendant is a common practice. It has been evidenced that unattended birth is linked with serious life-threatening complications for both the women and the newborn. Institutional delivery with a skilled birth assistance could reduce 20-30% of n…

Within the last decade, social media has progressed from a form of mere entertainment to a medium for solution of complex issues in our daily lives. During the last few years, social media has gained value in medical education and the diversity in the use of digital media has given new dimensions to medical education w…

The incidence of neuroendocrine tumors of the rectum has been increasing in the last decades, partly due to improved investigation. They are mostly well-differentiated small tumors with a rather good overall prognosis. In the last few years, some aspects of neuroendocrine tumors have been evolving. In 2010, the World H…

There has been a gradual improvement in the outcome for younger patients with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia over the last two decades, but unfortunately this same progress is not apparent in older patients. "Old" has come to mean rather arbitrarily, patients over 60 years. This age cut off has been perpetuated by clinical tr…

Fascioliasis is a worldwide zoonotic infection with Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica. The zoonoses are particularly endemic in sheep-raising countries and are also endemic in Iran. Typical symptoms that may be associated with fascioliasis can be divided by phases of the disease, including the acute or liver pha…

BACKGROUND: According to a recent Danish study, public health policies in Sweden and Denmark have become more oriented towards the individual over the last few years. We wanted to explore the development in Norway over the last decade. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Changes in policy have been identified by comparing arguments…

Unemployment has increased in Norway during the last years. In order to study the impact of unemployment on primary health care in Hedmark county, a questionnaire was sent to 132 general practitioners. 70% replied. Some of the questions dealt with the doctors' requests for social security benefits for patients whose pr…

OBJECTIVE: Graves' disease (GD) is the main cause of hyperthyroidism among adults. It is an autoimmune condition classically marked by the Merserburg Triad (goiter, thyrotoxicosis, and orbitopathy), but the change in presentation of GD over time has rarely been studied. To determine changes in the clinical presentation…

OBJECTIVES: We attempted to answer the following questions: Why has the body mass index (BMI) increased so dramatically in the last 35 years? Are some food groups or additives more responsible than others? METHODS: Data for per capita food production available for consumption after spoilage for different food groups a…

The authors have made a comparative analysis of postoperative lethality in acute cholecystitis for the period of 25 years. The clinical material included 1383 operated patients, of them 87 (6.3%) patients died. In the previous years postoperative lethality was within the limits of 9-10% and the determining factor was e…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the medium- and long-term effectiveness of the 3rd-generation ceramic-on-ceramic total hip arthroplasty (THA) for end-stage hip disease. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was made on the clinical data of 142 patients (148 hips) who underwent the 3rd-generation ceramic-on-ceramic THA between May…

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Chronic abdominal pain (AP) is common in children. Recall of symptoms is used clinically to determine management, to assess treatment progress, and in drug studies to assess outcomes. Limited data exist on accuracy of AP recall in children. The aim of the present study was to assess ability to accur…

INTRODUCTION: As cocaine consumption seems to have increased over the last decades, the EU has funded this multi-center, cross-sectional survey to investigate cocaine consumption in three different target groups. The study was conducted by the Addiction Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, Medical University Vienna and ot…