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OBJECT: In this paper the authors' goal was to determine the factors associated with the progression of degenerative lumbar scoliosis (DLS). METHODS: Twenty-seven patients (3 men and 24 women; mean age 64.9 years) with more than 10° of lumbar scoliosis at baseline were monitored for a mean period of 10 years. The…

From 1949 to 1975, 220 children have undergone surgical reconstruction of pectus excavatum using a variety of operations on our Pediatric Surgical Service. The first 183 were previously reported and have had subsequent, careful followup evaluation. From 1970 to 1975, an identifiable group of 45 children had a standard…

BACKGROUND: The increasing availability of biological drugs (originators and biosimilars) in the last decade for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), has led to complex switching patterns in real-world settings. OBJECTIVES: To describe the switching/swapping patt…

Different bioengineering techniques have been applied repeatedly for the reconstruction of extensive airway defects in the last few years. While short-term surgical success is evident, there is a lack of long-term results in patients. Here, we report the case of a young male who received a 5×2 cm bioartific…

The influence of oral contraceptives (OC) on histomorphological and molecular biological prognostic factors was studied in 471 breast cancer patients. Differences in histological tumor type, histological grade, tumor size, lymph node status, hormonal receptor status, PCNA expression and c-erbB-2 protein overexpression…

A retrospective study was done on a consecutive series of patients who had revision of a femoral hip prosthesis using a titanium-alloy implant with proximal fibermesh pads. Of 28 patients who had revision using a Harris-Galante (Zimmer, Warsaw, IN) femoral prosthesis between 1985 and 1989, 25 of them (25 hip arthroplas…

We investigated the incidence of associated bladder tumor and prognosis in 101 cases with a pathological diagnosis of transitional cell carcinoma, selected from those with renal pelvic and ureteral tumor whom we had encountered over the 18 years between April 1976 and March 1993. Among these 101 cases, the incidence of…

PURPOSE: Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS) with periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) has a poor neurological prognosis. Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and vigabatrin therapies are the recommended first-line treatments for IESS. However, ACTH monotherapy for IESS with PVL has not been studied in detail. We an…

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Hypospadias is characterized by a displacement of the urethral opening in males that can change from the typical position within the glans penis to a subcoronal position (Type I), to anywhere along the ventral shaft (Type II), to penoscrotal, scrotal, or perineal positions (Type III). We and ot…

PURPOSE: To report the frequency of presentation of bifid or multiple iliopsoas tendons in patients who underwent endoscopic release for internal snapping hip syndrome (ISHS) and to compare both groups. METHODS: A consecutive series of patients with ISHS were treated with endoscopic transcapsular release of the iliops…

PURPOSE: To determine the effect of various methods of managing the posterior capsule and anterior vitreous on the rate of posterior capsular opacification in children implanted with posterior chamber intraocular lenses (PC IOL). METHODS: We reviewed the charts of 20 eyes of 15 children (1.5-12 years) who underwent pr…

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety of fluocinolone acetonide implant (FAci) injected 1 month after the last dexamethasone intravitreal implant (DEXi) in chronic diabetic macular oedema (DME) patients. METHODS: Retrospective multicentric study conducted in pseudophakic patien…

OBJECTIVE: This article describes a case of an Oral Eosinophilic Ulcer (OEU) in an otherwise healthy 31-year-old white woman. INTRODUCTION: The importance of reporting this case was the presence of recurrent episodes with lesions appearing in different areas of the oral mucosa, a type of manifestation not commonly ass…

The purpose of this study was to investigate obstacle clearance and reaction time parameters when crossing a series of six obstacles in older adults. A second aim was to examine the repeated exposure of this testing protocol once per week for 5 weeks. In total, 10 older adults (five females; age: 67.0 ±&#x2…

A series of 6 consecutive cases of orbital metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were reported in the last 5 years. All patients were men. The age of patients ranged between 47 and 70 years. Four patients presented with recent onset of unilateral proptosis, 1 patient presented with inflammatory manifestations,…

The medical records of patients with pregnancy associated breast carcinoma were critically reviewed to identify the tumor characteristics, maternal details, type of treatment delivered, and disease outcome. Over the last 5 years, there were 5 patients out of 220 giving a percentage prevalence of 2.27%. The median age a…

This study investigated predictors of renal survival in children with Henoch-Schönlein purpura glomerulonephritis. Records of patients with Henoch-Schönlein purpura glomerulonephritis evaluated at our center, from 1953-1990, were reviewed. Data were abstracted from records of patients seen within 5 years. Oth…

Reliability and ease of use of the Itrel 3 System (Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN) were prospectively assessed over 5 years in patients with a range of pain syndromes (mainly low back and/or leg pain, or ischemic pain due to peripheral vascular disease). The longevity of the implantable pulse generator (IPG) batt…

BACKGROUND: International studies have reported an increase in referrals to gender identity units, a shift in the assigned sex ratio of adolescents, a decrease in the age at first visit, and a growing presence of individuals with nonbinary gender identities. AIM: To investigate whether these trends are present in a Sp…