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Alu elements are the most abundant repetitive elements in the human genome; they emerged 65 million years ago from a 5' to 3' fusion of the 7SL RNA gene and amplified throughout the human genome by retrotransposition to reach the present number of more than one million copies. Over the last years, several lines of evid…

The ideal management of colloid cysts is controversial. Treatment options include shunting procedures, stereotactic cyst aspiration, open craniotomy for microsurgical removal, and endoscopic removal. Although recent literature would suggest endoscopic removal is a reasonable approach, issues of safety and efficacy have…

This report traces the evolution of surveillance programmes for influenza in the United Kingdom and countries of western Europe since the World Health Organisation (WHO) resolution to establish an international influenza reference centre in 1947. The introduction of clinical surveillance schemes in the late 1960s and t…

BACKGROUND: The underlying pathology of recurrent IIIrd (and VIth) Nerve palsy are often unknown. Long-term observation sometimes reveal surprising causes. PATIENT: At the first presentation in the clinic the patient was 5 years old and suffered from the second episode of the palsy (which regressed quickly). Two recur…

The early outcome for severely injured patients has improved in the last 20 years, but the level of continuing long term disability in such patients is not known. A large cohort of severely injured patients (ISS > 15) were interviewed and examined approximately 5 years following their injury. We present the preliminary…

In the last 5 years 16 patients with cholecystosis were observed. In this period the most recent diagnostic and therapeutic techniques were used including ultrasound which allowed to diagnose 60% of adenomyomatosis, 33.3% of cholecystosis and 6.7% of gallbladder polyposis. In 6 cases a traditional open surgery cholecys…

Hypospadias is a common congenital anomaly in male newborns. The incidence is about one in 300 live male births. In the U.S., about 6000 boys with hypospadias are born each year. For this study, we collected 117 recent (with the last 5 years) cases (88 fresh and 29 referred) who received an operation in our department.…

We present 4 cases of adenoid cystic carcinoma from different locations (parotid, submaxillary, larynx and auditory duct) and we underline the supraglottic origin of one of them. We point out the good clinical behaviour of this carcinoma, with a long tested survival, more than 5 years, in 2 of our cases. All of them sh…

Presentation of 9 cases of synergistic genitalia and perineum necrosing fascitis treated in our service over the last 5 years. The contents of the disease and its terminology has been reviewed by the light of the existing literature. In our series, patients mean age was 65 years. Three of our 9 patients had diabetes me…

Forty nine asthmatic children were studied to clarify the relationship between the respiratory threshold of acetylcholine (RT-Ach) and the prognosis for asthma. In those patients who had asthmatic attacks fewer than 60 days in the last year, there was a statistically significant relationship between RT-Ach and the numb…

Nine cases of multiple-shot suicides (suicides involving more than two gunshot wounds) examined in the last 6 years at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. State of Maryland, are reported. All victims, with the exception of one, were white: three were women and six were men, with ages ranging from 22 to 81 years.…

True polar wander, the shifting of the entire mantle relative to the earth's spin axis, has been reanalyzed. Over the last 200 million years, true polar wander has been fast (approximately 5 centimeters per year) most of the time, except for a remarkable standstill from 170 to 110 million years ago. This standstill cor…

For the last 7 years we administered therapeutic doses of radiation therapy as adjuvant treatment after radical prostatectomy in 45 patients at high risk for recurrence, that is patients with pathological stage C (seminal vesicle invasion) or stage D1a (microscopic involvement of the resected pelvic lymph nodes) diseas…

During the last 2 years an open lung biopsy was performed in 16 children aged from 2 to 14 years. Fourteen of these had a chemotherapeutic induced immunodeficiency and a radiological picture of diffuse pulmonary infiltrate. A definite diagnosis was established in 11 cases: 5 pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis, 2 CMV infe…

In the period between 1960--1978 36 children dead with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) were studied. Nine cases were found to be in pathological remission, i.e., without any leukaemia infiltrations (7 of these were seen in the last 5 years). The remaining 27 could be divided into two groups on the basis of nuclear…

Among 466 children under the age of 12 years who presented with eczema in a 5-year period, 68 p. 100 were atopic. 136 had various atypical signs of atopy. 44 suffered from pityriasis alba of sufficient intensity to justify referral for this reason; 10 had the typical features of seborrhoeic dermatitis of infants. 27 su…

We highlight the development of nanocontainer-based active materials started in 2006 at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces under the supervision of Prof. Helmuth Möhwald. The active materials encapsulated in the nanocontainers with controlled shell permeability have been first applied for self-hea…

The extent to which dementia affects a person's testamentary capacity has been the subject of much litigation with some countries introducing legal tests to assess capacity. In light of substantial societal change in Albania in the last two decades and an epidemic of property litigation, Albanian legal practice is witn…

Florida (USA), particularly the southern portion of the State, is in a precarious situation concerning arboviral diseases. The geographic location, climate, lifestyle, and the volume of travel and commerce are all conducive to arbovirus transmission. During the last decades, imported dengue cases have been regularly re…

The professionalization of any sport must include an appreciation for how and where nutrition can positively affect training adaptation and/or competition performance. Furthermore, there is an ever-increasing importance of nutrition in sports that feature very high training volumes and are of a long enough duration tha…