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The goal of this study is to define possible characteristics in social and medical needs with immigrant foreigners who arrived in France during the last fifty years; and because of the grave situation, it should be necessary to take appropriate and special action. Except identical needs related to similar social and ec…

During the last 5 years six cases of mycetoma have been referred to the Razi Hospital, Thehran. Nocardia Asteroides was found to be the causative agent in one case only. Five of the patients were males, all being rice farmers, and one was a female. All of them belonged to Northern Iran which has a mediterranean climate…

Younger than 40 years old reached a 27.5% and the group of older than 40 years old reached a 72.5%. The predominant sex was the female that reached a 65%. Ulcerated and depressed lesions reached to 70%. The clinical symtomatology referred was ulcerous syndrome in 42.5% and non-characteristic epigastralgy in 35% with sy…

CONTEXT: Half of the patients with cancer who undergo radiation therapy do so with palliative intent. OBJECTIVES: To determine the proportion of undergoing radiation in the last month of life, patient characteristics, cancer course, the type and duration of radiation, whether palliative care was involved, and the of r…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy and the learning curve of the endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNAB) diagnostics of pancreatic lesions over 8 years (2007-2014). MATERIAL AND METHODS: EUS-FNAB using a Linear Echoendoscope Olympus was performed in 531 patients, mostly without rapid on-…

OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to re-evaluate the h-index of neurosurgical units in the United Kingdom and Ireland because it was 5 years since it was last reported. METHODS: Using the Web of Science database, we collated cumulative (1950-2020), 10-year (2011-2020), 5-year (2016-2020), and 3-year (2018-2020) data for neurosur…

AIM: To know the epidemiology and outcome of Crohn's disease at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and to compare the results from other world institutions. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of patients seen for 20 years (between 1983 and 2002). Individual case records were reviewed with regard to h…

INTRODUCTION: Bartter syndrome (BS) is a salt losing tubulopathy due to impairment of the transport mechanisms at the thick ascending limb of the Henle's loop. The aim of this study was to report the clinical course of patients with BS. METHODS: Patients with BS were followed from 1996 to 2020 and enrolled to a system…

The author previously reported that the serum calcium (Ca) and inorganic phosphorus (P) levels were gradually decreased with advance in age in regularly menstruating women, but that they were rapidly increased soon after the menopause. In this experiment the changes of the serum Ca and P levels in postmenopausal women…

PURPOSE: To assess clinical, functional and radiographical results of one-level minimally invasive transforaminal interbody fusion with unilateral pedicle screw fixation (UNILIF) in the treatment of stable lumbar degenerative diseases with a minimum of 5 years of follow-up. MATERIAL AND METHOD: From January 2012…

In a retrospective study, hearing results before and after stapedectomy were compared with those of individuals not undergoing surgery. Subjects were 51 patients who were surgically diagnosed as having otosclerosis and who could be followed up for more than 5 years. Of these, 31 contralateral ears surgically diagnosed…

PURPOSE: Aim of this study was to report the long-term outcomes of a cohort of patients treated with a selective bundle ACL reconstruction of a partial tear evaluating functional results as well as failure and satisfaction rates. The hypothesis was that good clinical results, high satisfaction and low failure rates cou…

The data presented concern the evolution of the contemporary increase of stature in eleven countries of Western Europe, at national level and, for some of them, at regional level. The data are based on the average stature of recruits 18-20 years of age. Over the last 20 years, an average increase of 2 to more than 4 cm…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the association of Lady Health Worker's role with immunization of children in Pakistan. METHODS: Secondary analysis was conducted on data obtained from Pakistan's Demographic and Health Survey. Children who did not receive all doses of vaccines were considered incompletely immunized or vice ver…

Investigations of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the glans penis are scarce, especially with regard to its natural history. To elucidate HPV prevalence among Japanese men attending urological clinics, 798 adult participants were recruited consecutively and stratified into groups by age based on 10-year intervals. The ov…

OBJECTIVE: To assess trends in tenure for chairs of academic departments of ophthalmology and to assess characteristics that may be correlated with longevity. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS: Current chairs from 136 institutions were surveyed. METHODS: Questionnaires mailed to ophthalmology chairs. MAIN…

A total of 603 strains of Salmonella serovar Enteritidis (SE) isolated from patients with sporadic diarrhea during the period from April 1985 to December 1995 in Yamanashi Prefecture, were examined for their yearly and monthly frequency of SE isolates, drug susceptibility, phage typing and plasmid profile. The results…

BACKGROUND/AIMS: The aim of the study was to determine the epidemiological shift that may have occurred in the last 11 years of Hepatitis A virus (HAV) seroprevalence. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In 1998, we reported the anti-HAV seroprevalence in 711 children aged between 2 and 16 years children in Adana city center. Elev…