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INTRODUCTION: Long term results of different surgical techniques in Hirschsprung's Disease (HD) are contradictory. There are still no long term large or multicentric reports about functional results of De la Torre technique. We have studied the mid term functional results of the patients operated on Duhamel (D) and De…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of lumbar interbody fusion impacted bone grafts combined with regrafting in situ with spinous process and vertebral plate complex and pedicle screw fixation for lumbar degenerative instability. METHODS: Between January 1998 and October 2010, 48 patients with lumbar degenerative…

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…

The data on 130 children with brain abscesses treated over 21 years (1970-1990) were analyzed retrospectively. The whole group included four infants. Chronic ear infection and cyanotic congenital heart disease were the most common predisposing factors. In infants, meningitis and/or ventriculitis were dominant in the et…

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-…

This nationally representative study, encompassing all single youth (15-24 years), was carried out on the subpopulation of Ethiopia DHS 2000 to determine the influences of socio-demographic characteristics on sexual behaviour, and assess the knowledge and awareness of HIV/AIDS and other STIs. There were a total of 890…

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…

Knowledge of Entamoeba histolytica biology in the last 17 years has been acquired largely as a consequence of this parasite's axenic cultivation in TPS-1 or TYI-S-33 media. Unfortunately, there are often low yields in these media, due to variability of their main components, Panmede and yeast extract. We describe a med…

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…

PURPOSE: Our goals were to characterize associations of author number, author gender, and institutional affiliation on ratings and acceptances of abstracts submitted to one surgical education conference over 5 years. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed all abstracts submitted between 2017 and 2021 to the annual meeti…

To evaluate the clinical effect of Z-shaped rotating osteotomy of metatarsal diaphysis in patients with moderate and severe hallux valgus with metatarsophalangeal joint incongruency.We selected 36 patients (38 feet) with moderate and severe hallux valgus with metatarsophalangeal joint incongruency who underwent Z-shape…

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…

Although intensively discussed and finally accepted in the last years "white coat phenomenon" (WCF) still raises the question of the benefit of diagnosing it in pediatric patients as its possible link with the subsequent essential hypertension is not clear yet. This study included 1068 schoolchildren (aged 10 to 16 yea…

The serum diphtheria antitoxin levels in Japanese adults were investigated and the persistence of diphtheria toxoid effect was evaluated. The subjects consisted of 56 volunteers (20-31 years of age) who had received regular inoculations of diphtheria and pertussis vaccine (I and II or III phases). They had been immuniz…