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A histopathological analysis of 2,150 cases of lung epidermoid (squamous cell) carcinomas, diagnosed between March 1949 and December 1983, was performed. The ratio men/women was 14.9:1. The study included 851 lung surgical specimens (199 pulmonectomies, 456 lobectomies and 196 segmentectomies, atypical resections and l…

Rising mean sea level, it is proposed, is a significant indicator of global climate change. The principal factors that can have contributed to the observed increases of global mean sea level in recent decades are thermal expansion of the oceans and the discharge of polar ice sheets. Calculations indicate that thermal e…

The census study in 1972, including all Danish psychiatric institutions, was the fourth in a series, the first being performed in 1957. In the 15-year period from 1957 to 1972 the total number of hospitalized psychiatric patients, including day-patients, has been almost unchanged, about 240-260 per 100,000 population.…

Administration of taurine to a cat suffering from naturally occurring chronic (about 3 years) epilepsy caused disappearance of the clinical manifestation of the seizures as well as a marked improvement in the previously grossly abnormal EEG. The treatment consisted of injections of taurine initially, followed by a more…

The percentage of aseptic loosening of different types of total hip prostheses in 771 cases has been evaluated. The time of follow-up ranged between 1/2 and 6 years. In prostheses of the Charnley-Müller type of loosening was 7.8% in the Charnley-Müller-Weller type with a 2-year shorter follow-up it was 2.4%.…

UNLABELLED: Thalidomide monotherapy has demonstrated consistent results in the treatment of advanced multiple myeloma. We report a 9-year follow-up of a French multicenter nonrandomized phase II study that evaluated the effect of oral thalidomide in 120 patients with advanced multiple myeloma. Independent predictors of…

OBJECTIVE: Invasive bladder cancer (IBC) is a common urological malignancy accounting for 4%-5% of all cancers in Denmark. Our aim was to examine possible changes in short- and long-term survival of patients with IBC during 1998-2009. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Data on all patients (N = 4032) with an incident diagnosis…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the outcome of local corticocancellous bone chips used for fusion in various kinds of spine surgeries. METHODS: The observational prospective study was conducted at the Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar, and Aman Hospital, Peshawar, from April 2011 to April 2013, and comprised cases in which l…

OBJECTIVES: We report the outcome and incidence of urinary retention after bilateral extravesical reimplant in patients with primary vesicoureteral reflux. METHODS: We retrospectively evaluated the chart of 127 patients, 92 females and 35 males, who underwent correction of primary vesicoureteral reflux using the extra…

OBJECTIVE: To search for a threshold of pulmonary oxygen toxicity in patients with acute respiratory failure. DESIGN: Retrospective study over a 10-year period. SETTING: Three intensive care units of two university hospitals. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-four patients with acute respiratory failure ventilated…

BACKGROUND: Improved imaging modalities contributed to increasing awareness of cardiac amyloidosis. Contemporary data on frequency trends in Germany are lacking. METHODS: In a retrospective study using health claims data of a German statutory health insurance, patients with diagnostic codes of amyloidosis and concomit…

A structural graft is often used to maintain correction and achieve union after anterior calcaneal lengthening osteotomy for treatment of flexible flatfoot. Autograft, the current gold standard, is limited in availability and configuration and is associated with donor site morbidity in as much as 48%, whereas the alter…

AIMS: Over the last four decades, in-hospital mortality from acute coronary syndromes (ACS) has declined. We characterized the patients who died in our cardiovascular intensive care unit (CICU) over a 15-year period. Based on these data, we described the changing patient population in the CICU. METHODS: This retrospec…

BACKGROUND: To compare the health-related quality of life (HRQL) and long-term survival between patients after oncologic esophagectomy with narrow gastric tube (NGT) reconstruction and whole stomach (WS) reconstruction. METHODS: Between 2007 and 2008, a total of 104 patients undergoing esophagectomy were included in t…

Knee anomalies are common in patients with congenital short femurs who require lengthening to correct limb-length discrepancies. We retrospectively reviewed the incidence of knee arthritis and the factors influencing its occurrence after femoral lengthening using the Wagner method. Twenty-three patients with congenital…

Results from 26 hips of 24 Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease patients were evaluated retrospectively. There were 22 male and two female patients in the study group. The mean age of the patients was 8.3 years and the mean follow-up was 13.03 years. All the patients were older than 6 years of age and all of them had latera…

During the last 10 years (1975-1985), a total of 18 cases of posttraumatic aneurysm at the level of the thoracic isthmus were operated on. Six of the 18 were women (19-71 years of age) and 12 were men (17-61 years of age). The mean age at the time of injury was, respectively, 22 and 25.8 years and, at the time of opera…

The first epidemiologic survey of the prevalence of childhood asthma and other allergic disease in Ankara, Turkey, was done in May 1992. A questionnaire on factors influencing the atopic status and allergic symptoms was distributed to parents of 1226 children aged 6-12 years. In this questionnaire, parents were asked t…

Maternal, perinatal and neonatal factors of 27 newborns of heroin addicted mothers were reviewed between 1980 and 1984. Results were compared with a control group of 2,587 normal newborns. A progressive increase in number of cases was observed in the last years. Mean age of heroin-addicted mothers was significant lower…

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the factors that increase the practice of condomless anal sex (CAS) among adolescent men who have sex with men (AMSM) and adolescent travestis and transgender women (ATGW) in three Brazilian state capitals. METHODS: PrEP1519 is a prospective, multicenter cohort study demonstrating the effectivene…