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In the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Uludağ University Medical Faculty in Bursa, during the last 11 years, the Peter G. Jones technique for the surgical correction of muscular torticollis in older children has been introduced. Twenty children between 4 and 13 years of age were treated for muscular torticollis.…

Over the last 10 years, the Nutrition Unit at Hope Hospital has trained and looked after 76 patients on home parenteral nutrition for a total of 100 patient years. Although 40 per cent of patients have required home parenteral nutrition for 6 months or less one patient has been on treatment for 7 years. The quality of…

Biological data were recorded for 1265 silky sharks Carcharhinus falciformis collected from fish landing sites in eastern Indonesia. These represented catches taken in most calendar months by gillnetting and longlining in the eastern Indian Ocean and contained individuals ranging from embryos to fully mature adults. Th…

Hip osteoarthritis is prevalent in 8% to 28% of patients with Down syndrome. Presence of disabling hip pain is increased along with prolonged life expectancy, suggesting total hip arthroplasty (THA). Seven consecutive patients (9 hips) with Down syndrome underwent primary THA. Coxarthrosis was secondary to developmenta…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate complications in adequately treated children with distal renal tubular acidosis (RTA) and to identify factors influencing their development. DESIGN: Records of patients with primary distal RTA followed for 2 or more years at this hospital were reviewed. Case records were examined for age at onse…

Dengue virus fever is a mosquito-borne disease resulting in a serious flu-like sickness with high temperature, intense joint and muscle ache, reduced blood platelets, skin rashes, and a tendency to bleed. Neurological complications following dengue infection are common. Although psychiatric sequelae have been rarely re…

UNLABELLED: Digital photography and its use in the busy dental practice is ever increasing. Correct choice of equipment will save many hours of staff time and expense and is essential if consistent images are to be achieved. Modern digital cameras and associated macro lenses and ringflash, can last 5-10 years if handle…

ABTRACT: A series of publications has dealt in the last years with topics as the isolation, properties and applications of animal stem cells (Weissman 2000. Cell 100: 157-168; Weissman 2002. N. Engl. J. Med. 346: 1567-1579; Lovell-Badge 2001. Nature 414: 88-91; Marshak et al. 2001. Stem Cell Biology. Cold Spring Harbor…

In the last 5 years, we have started to witness the emergence of new technologies and techniques that offer the potential for improved patient outcomes but which often still lack clinical demonstration and/or confirmation in well-designed, multicentre studies. These include biocompatible solutions, glucose sparing regi…

ABO incompatibility and positive cross match between the donor and the recipient are no longer considered absolute counter indications to renal transplantation. One-year and 5-years graft survival are similar to ABO compatible transplantation, although a higher incidence of acute humoral rejection is observed. Calcineu…

I hide behind my limited presentation time to retreat from offering answers to this dilemma, save to cite one example to illustrate that knowledge workers are not politically hopeless. In response to a severe need, investigators mobilized in the last 5 years to advocate for increased federal funding for research. The s…

The last 3 to 5 years have witnessed a tremendous change in direction for the academic health center. The major trends in this regard are increased importance of managed care, cost consciousness, development of a clinical system, pressure to downsize graduate medical education, and increased competition.

The pancreatic pseudocysts are a serious complication of acute or chronic pancreatitis. Personal experience in the treatment of 5 cases of pancreatic pseudocysts observed in the last six years is reported. In elective surgery the operation of choice in the treatment of the typical postnecrotic pseudocysts and which giv…

The advent of tacrolimus allowed clinical intestinal transplantation to become a feasible procedure for patients with irreversible intestinal failure. Over last 5 years, 71 patients underwent intestinal transplantation. Forty-one recipients were children, and 30 recipients were adults. Twenty-five patients received an…

Authors evaluate their experience in treatment of patients with polytrauma during last 10 years. They use the 5 level classification applicated particularly in German and Austrian traumatologic centres. Authors initiated in their workplace the computer assessment ISS - Injury Severity Score, Apache II -Acute Physiology…

During the last 5 years 174 children with neuropathic bladder were studied, and only 7 required urinary diversions. A total of 31 ureteroneocystostomies were performed in 17 patients, 16 of whom had gross vesico-ureteric reflux. Revisionary surgery was required in four children and two underwent pyeloplasty. Deteriorat…

This paper reviews clinically oriented manuscripts published over the last 5 years dealing with US experience with trazodone. Three major questions are addressed. First, there is ample documentation that trazodone is an effective antidepressant with results comparable to the tricyclic antidepressant agents in treating…

The number of postmenopausal women colposcopically diagnosed has markedly increased during the last 15 years. In some of them, a clear colposcopic impression, required for planning an appropriate therapy, was disturbed by severe senile cervicocolpitis, when examined by the conventional technique using acetic acid. With…

The analysis of the results of the comprehensive studies (phenotypic and genotypic properties, the precipitation test with the use of spontaneously agglutinating cultures, the determination of the antigenic structure by immunochemical analysis, etc.) carried out during the sanitary microbiological control of the enviro…