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OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to establish prognostic factors for survival of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer. We have furthermore investigated changes in patient characteristics and treatment strategies during the last 20 years. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Between 1992 and 1997, a total…

1. Birth induction in twin pregnancies was substantially reduced to 6% in last few years (1984-87) as opposed to 21% between 1975 and 1980. 2. Premature rupture of the membrane increased in the last years. At a rate of 33% is occurred nearly twice as often as with singletons (18%). A waiting policy increasingly adopted…

PURPOSE: This retrospective study was undertaken to evaluate if a "low dose" intraoperative sponge 5-fluorouracil application may improve the quality of the postoperative IOP control without increasing the incidence of postoperative complications following a first trabeculectomy in low-risk and/or severe field defects…

To better understand the various individual factors that contribute to balance and the relation to fall risk, we performed the modified Romberg Test of Standing Balance on Firm and Compliant Support, with 1,174 participants between 4 and 83 years of age. This research was conducted in the Living Laboratoryat the…

BACKGROUND: For parents, how to manage child discipline is a difficult question in the task of raising a socially, emotionally, and physically mature adult. Negative discipline can be physical or psychological, and can negatively affect child development, mental health, and wellbeing. This study aimed to assess the pre…

INTRODUCTION: Heterogeneous and nonspecific symptoms make invasive endometriosis a difficult entity to diagnose. Small lesions with absent associated changes can be easily missed in cross-sectional imaging. Even when the lesions satisfy the thresholds for various investigations, their appearance changes with cyclical f…

BACKGROUND: To evaluate efficacy and safety of botulinum toxin A injections after more than 10 consecutive years of treatment for benign essential blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm. DESIGN: Retrospective chart review at university-affiliated hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Study consisted of 64 patients treated with botulin…

Micturition studies were performed pre-, inter- and postoperatively in a consecutive series comprising 148 unselected hypospadiacs, both short-term results (on average 1 3/12 years after the last operation) and long-term results (on average 6 3/12 years after the last operation) being recorded. The clinical material wa…

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this analysis is to report long-term health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among brain tumor survivors treated with proton therapy (PRT) at a very young age. METHODS: Fifty-nine children <4 years old received PRT between 2000 and 2011. Forty families participated. HRQoL was assessed by chil…

Our study investigated health service use for people in the last year of life, comparing those who died with and without Alzheimer's disease (AD) documented on the death certificate. Using a population-based retrospective cohort design, and utilizing the Western Australian Data Linkage System for the period 2000-2002 (…

OBJECTIVE: Previous studies have evaluated the correlation between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) risk and pregnancy history, with conflicting results. Fetal cells acquired during pregnancy provide a potential explanation for modulation of RA risk by pregnancy. The present study was undertaken to examine the effect of parit…

In this article the Authors, after describing the history of the penile prosthesis surgery and analyzing the technical progresses made in the last twenty years, offer their personal experience and data from the most recent literature about treatment of erectile dysfunction through the application af penile prosthesis,…

OBJECTIVES: To map out the total use of long-term care (LTC; ie, home care or institutional care) during the last 2&#xa0;years of life and to investigate to what extent gender differences in LTC use were explained by cohabitation status and age at death. DESIGN: The National Cause of Death Register was used to identif…

BACKGROUND: Although it is known that there has been an increase in asthma and allergic diseases among school-aged children, results vary between countries. The aim of this study was to examine trends in the prevalence of these diseases in the city of Adana (south Turkey) over the last 20 years based on the results of…

AIM: This study aimed to assess convergent validity of International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) interview (long form, last seven days), and to examine differences in reported physical activity and sedentary time between the self-administered and interview versions of the long IPAQ (last seven days); and whe…

The aim of this study was to analyse the long-term results of surgical en bloc resection and replacement with non-vascularised, autologous fibular graft for the treatment of large benign humeral lesions without fixation. We retrospectively reviewed data of seven females and 13 males with unilateral benign lesions where…

OBJECTIVES: To explore the history of symptomatic cystine stone formation. Cystinuria is a genetic defect that may result in the formation of recurrent cystine calculi. METHODS: Thirty-four patients with cystinuria were retrospectively evaluated for treatment patterns, medical prophylaxis, and renal outcome. Patients…

OBJECTIVES: To determine the HIV/sexually transmitted disease (STD) status of male patients at STD clinics and factors associated with frequent visits to commercial sex workers (CSW) in southern Vietnam. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. METHODS: Confidential interviews and physical and laboratory evaluation of 804 mal…

A survey of the historical and epidemiologic development of diphtheria is presented. The last four centuries are described particular attention is devoted to the most important centers of the epidemic during this time. Special consideration is given to the last one hundred years in Germany.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical effect of coronal bone structure matching(CBSM)in the treatment of distal radius fracture. METHODS: A total of 39 cases of distal radius fracture between Jannary 2018 and Jannary 2022 were included in this study. Among them there were 22 males and 17 females with an average age o…