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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of the median nerve constrictive operation combined with tendon transfer to treat the brain paralysis convulsive deformity of the hand. METHODS: The clinical data from 21 cases with brain paralysis convulsive deformity of the hand were analyzed retrospectively between August 20…

INTRODUCTION: Urogenital tract foreign bodies (FBs) have been rarely reported in children, and the management is still challenging. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to review a 10-year experience with urogenital tract FBs in a single center. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The authors reviewed the records of children suspec…

Wheat was first cultivated in the Fertile Crescent (South Western Asia) with a farming expansion that lasted from around 9000 BC to 4000 BC. Whilst humans have been exposed to wheat for around the last 10 000 years, humans have existed for greater than 2·5 million years. Therefore, wheat (and thereby gluten)…

INTRODUCTION: Acupuncture had a different approaches since its beginnings. Using traditional energetic points with an interaction of 5 elements and meridian theories with manual diagnosis of tender points has been proposed. This procedure can be an effective treatment in musculoskeletal disease but its development is s…

Sulphate aerosols, particularly micrometre-sized particles of sulphate salt and sulphate-adhered dust, can act as cloud condensation nuclei, leading to increased solar scattering that cools Earth's climate. Evidence for such a coupling may lie in the sulphate record from polar ice cores, but previous analyses of melted…

INTRODUCTION: Epidural haematomas are one of the most common complications of closed head injuries. Bilateral extradural haematomas are rare, usually acute, and generally associated with severe trauma and a high mortality. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper is to present six cases of bilateral extradural haematomas…

The outline area of new cysts of Globodera rostochiensis was measured by image analysis. A linear regression of this value against egg content provided a basis for adjusting the egg number for cyst size. This adjusted egg content provides an estimate of the relative fullness of a cyst with eggs. This value showed an ex…

There is a feeling that the contribution of researchers from the United Kingdom in the antimicrobial chemotherapy area is in decline, and we, therefore, reviewed publications in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (JAC) and Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (AAC) in 4 of the last 14 years. In absolute numbers…

Although there are several published audits of long-term home parenteral nutrition for chronic gastrointestinal failure, there is little data concerning the long-term outcome following prolonged in-patient parenteral nutrition for an episode of acute gastrointestinal failure. Between 1983 and 1 July 1993, 162 patients…

We have evaluated different aspects of the kidney function of 68 diabetic children and adolescents with the aim of estimating the prevalence of nephropathy and its influential factors. In addition, the kidney function is followed for an additional 18 months. The results are compared with those obtained from a group of…

OBJECTIVE: The incidence of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes (T1D) has been reported to be rising but there is also evidence that it has been attenuated in recent years. We described the time trends and the incidence of T1D in children in Hong Kong from 2008 to 2017 and compared with the previous local registry in 1997…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to critically reappraise the experience at our high-volume institution to obtain new insights for future directions. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: The indications, surgical techniques, and perioperative management of pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) have profoundly evolved over the las…

BACKGROUND: Previous studies investigating the travelers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) profile indicated an important educational need among those traveling to risk destinations. Initiatives to improve such education should target all groups of travelers, including business travelers, those visiting friend…

AIM: To analyse clinical characteristics of endocarditis for the last 10 years, treatment difficulties and how to overcome them. MATERIAL AND METHODS: 135 patients with infectious endocarditis (IE) were examined according to the routine scheme using modern methods of diagnosis and therapy control: transthoracic and tr…

INTRODUCTION: Sonographers are health providers who perform highly complex psychomotor, cognitive, interpretive and reporting tasks, all of which carry a risk of error. Such errors may lead to health consumer complaints. The purpose of this review was to analyse all published complaints from the Health and Disability C…

UNLABELLED: The comparison of Google internet searches for English words in construction for "construction stress", "construction mental" and "construction suicide" with reference to "construction worker" has not previously been undertaken. It is important to understand internet interest across these 3 terms as all are…

Polar temperatures during the Last Interglacial [LIG; ~129 to 116 thousand years (ka)] were warmer than today, making this time period an important testing ground to better understand how ice sheets respond to warming. However, it remains debated how much and when the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets changed during t…

Reverse sneezing (RS) is considered an innate reflex that may occur in normal dogs in response to a stimulus in the upper airways but currently, the prevalence is unknown. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of RS in dogs in Southeast Spain and to determine the possible influence of selected demographi…

Since the 1980s, the existence of one or more extinction events in the late Ediacaran has been the subject of debate. Discussion surrounding these events has intensified in the last decade, in concert with efforts to understand drivers of global change over the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition and the appearance of the mo…

BACKGROUND: Immunoglobulin A vasculitis is the most common vasculitis in children. It is usually a self-limiting condition, and the long-term prognosis depends on the severity of renal involvement. Although cyclosporin A is not generally recommended for the management of moderate immunoglobulin A vasculitis nephritis,…