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During the period from 1968 to 1987, 50 children, adolescent and adult patients with acute disseminated tuberculosis of the lung were examined in a Republican Tuberculosis Hospital. It was concluded that the number of patients with that form of tuberculosis increased within the last 10 years and the classic form of acu…

A fifteen year old girl was admitted to our hospital with intractable back pain since the last 5 1/2 years. The provisional diagnosis was M. Bechterew. Our patient attended school sporadically during this period, her regular activity was severely curtailed, and she was under continuous Benzodiazepin medication. Analysi…

Five cases of acute spinal epidural abscess, all in male, two of them in children (6 and 7 years old) and the others in patients older than fifty years are reported. In four cases the pathology was related to skin infection and the staphylococcus was the main agent. All the patients had a severe infectious clinical pic…

About an experience of 7,757 investigations and after study of the published series in the literature, it appears the frequency of the accidents following vascular roentgenology has not really changed since ten years. -- 0,5% complications; 0,07% death in aortographies; -- 0,4% complications; 0,09% death in femoral art…

PURPOSE: To compare amblyopia treatment outcomes between patients with neurodevelopmental disorders and their typically developing peers. METHODS: Of 2,311 patients diagnosed with amblyopia between 2010 and 2014 at Boston Children's Hospital, 460 met inclusion criteria (age 2-12 with anisometropic, strabismic, or mixe…

The aim of this study was to investigate the relative frequency of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes in Greek patients with chronic infection as well as possible secular changes in their distribution in relation to modes of transmission, age and time at acquisition of the infection and other variables. We evaluated 434…

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…

BACKGROUND: Repeated induced abortion is important public health concern both in the developing and developed world that increases maternal morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to determine the magnitude and associated factors of repeated induced abortion among abortion care service seekers at Marie Stope…

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the access to specialist palliative care (SPC) and its impact on healthcare utilization at the end of life in patients with multiple myeloma (MM). METHODS: This retrospective cohort study examined all Finnish patients who died of MM in 2019. Data were collected from national health databases…

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…

Cultural and material exchange between groups across the mountainous region separating the East Asian Steppe and the plains and river valleys of northern East Asia has been documented since the Paleolithic, yet the extent to which these interactions reflect prehistoric population dynamics is unknown. By sequencing and…

This retrospective study described the clinical and radiographic long-term outcomes of combined periodontal and orthodontic treatment (OT) with fixed appliances in patients with Stage IV periodontitis and pathologic tooth migration (PTM) in the anterior sextants. OT was performed in either one or both arches, using too…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine oncology nurses awareness of drug interactions. METHODS: This descriptive study was conducted with nurses working in the oncology clinics who are a member of Oncology Nursing Association of Turkey. A total of 115 nurses (response rate %20) were responded to the online…

OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence of Jaccoud arthropathy (JA) in a sample of local systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients and its clinical and serological associations. METHODS: 308 SLE patients from a single university center for the last two years were interviewed and examined. The presence of JA was searched…

Communicable diseases surveillance highlights for May 2000 (vaccine preventable diseases, bloodborne diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, quarantinable diseases, sexually transmissible diseases, vectorborne diseases, other diseases), and surveillance outcomes from several reporting series as follows: National Notifiabl…

OBJECTIVE: To review the cases of torsion of the spermatic cord diagnosed at the emergency and urology services of our hospital over the last 5 years and analyze the clinical and epidemiological features. METHODS: The cases of torsion of the spermatic cord diagnosed at our hospital from 1994-1998 were reviewed. Age, r…

Sixteen patients presenting with granulocytic sarcoma without evidence of acute leukemia were seen and diagnosed at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston from 1962 to 1985. Seven of them (44%) did not develop acute leukemia. Of these seven, four are alive with no evidence of dise…