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For the last 18 years 21,808 alpine skiing injuries have been treated at the hospital of Davos. There is a great decline in the incidence of lower leg fractures with a contrary development of knee ligament injuries. Today half of the lower leg injuries are knee injuries. To ameliorate the documentation of all patients…

Roux-en-Y reconstruction has been in use for several years as a reoperation for persistent esophagitis after fundoplication. The limited data in the literature appear to favour this approach. We have conducted a retrospective review of the records of 5 patients who have undergone this type of surgery for persistent ref…

With the advent of microvascular anastomosis it has become technically and practically feasible to replant amputated digits. In the last 5 years the achievements in this field of surgery have shown considerable improvement. Success is initially measured in terms of survival of the amputated digits but finally in terms…

BACKGROUND: Over the past 20 years, the mechanisms of action, duration of benefits and economic costs of newly licenced cancer drugs have changed significantly; however, summary data on these characteristics are limited. METHODS: In this study, using historical copies of the British National Formulary and relevant con…

Phototherapy is an effective and widely used treatment for generalised plaque psoriasis. Despite the mutagenic effects of UVB this type of therapy is still assumed to be a safe treatment option. We have performed a cross sectional study to assess the risk of skin cancer in the cohort of psoriasis patients treated with…

AIM: The aim of this survey was to establish prevalence of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training within the last 5 years and reasons preventing training and initiation of CPR in Ireland as well as awareness of the emergency numbers. METHODS: An in-home omnibus survey was undertaken in 2008 with quota sampling r…

This study was designed to explore risk factors for breast cancer with emphasis on the detection of clinical markers of the hormonal imbalance during the perimenarche. Three hundred and thirty women diagnosed with breast cancer and 346 population controls were identified and interviewed in Girona, Spain between 1986 an…

BACKGROUND: Anthracycline cytostatics, widely used in oncologic practice, may induce discrete myocardial damage occasionally culminating in life-threatening cardiologic complications. The most serious clinical manifestations of anthracycline cardiotoxicity are dilated cardiomyopathy, heart failure and fatal arrhythmias…

This is a retrospective cohort study.The authors report surgical outcome in a series of very young children who underwent finger replantation after traumatic amputation.During a 10-year period, 65 children were treated with replantation for finger amputation in two institutions. This study focused on replantation of 15…

BACKGROUND: Cixian county has one of the highest incidence rates of esophageal cancer (EC) in China, as well as the world. In 1974, the Cixian population-based cancer registry system was established, so that there is now information on esophageal cancer cases over almost 30 years. METHODS: Data from Cixian Cancer Regi…

The statistical study of a large number of eclamptic patients (n = 704), divided into five successive 3-year periods, was undertaken at the Hospital de Gineco-Obstetricia No. 2 del Centro Médico Nacional in Mexico City in orders to detect significant changes in therapeutic results and/or in the basic character of…

As the prevention and treatment of cervical cancer improves, there is increasing focus on the months and years after cancer treatment. Of those women living after a diagnosis of cancer, 10% will have a gynaecological malignancy and although the incidence of cervix cancer has dropped over the last 20 years, so has the a…

PURPOSE: To review the recent developments in asthma research in China, presenting the background of further asthma research and promoting academic exchanges between Chinese and foreign respirologists. DATA SOURCES: A literature search was conducted using 5 authoritative journals covering the years 1994-1998. STUDY S…

We investigated the long-term prognosis of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) in 72 patients followed up for > 10 years. Long-term seizure and intellectual outcomes were poor, as previously reported. The diagnosis of LGS was first made in the age range from 2 to 15 years with peak occurrence at 5 years. Progressive IQ score…

The mortality attributed to asthma has increased annually in England and Wales from 1960 to 1965. The increase is more pronounced at ages 5 to 34 years than at older ages and is most pronounced at ages 10 to 14 years. In this last age group the mortality increased nearly eight times in seven years, and in 1966 asthma a…

AIMS: To estimate the switching rate and to identify factors that predict switch from non-insulin to insulin therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes using routinely collected data from a clinical information system at Isfahan Endocrine and Metabolism Research Centre, Iran. METHODS: During the mean (SD) follow-up peri…

PURPOSE: Aim of the study was to evaluate the results of tubularized incised plate (TIP) urethroplasty in distal and mid penile hypospadias repair. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this retrospective study, we analyzed the medical records of 195 boys (mean age: 2.1 years, range: 0.5-13 years) with distal penile (n=170) or mi…

Various methods of periacetabular osteotomy have been described. Since 1990, we have performed rotational acetabular osteotomy through an Ollier lateral U transtrochanteric approach without massive bone graft. This study investigated whether our technique could provide relief from symptoms, whether postoperative hip ab…