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The epstein - barr virus (ebv) is a gammaherpesvirus that primarily infects b cells and in some cases epithelial cells . Ebv infection leads to a lifelong latent phase in which the viral dna episome remains attached to the host s genome in the nucleus of the ebv - infected cells . Like other latent viruses, ebv has evo... |
A chronic, progressive, and complex metabolic disturbance, the metabolic syndrome (mets), is closely related to serious cardiovascular and emotional complications [1, 2]. Its increasing prevalence worldwide has pushed the mets more and more under the spotlight during the last decades . Incontrovertibly, unlike the card... |
Study population - this study (approved by the ethical committee of ain shams university) included 99 cases collected from cairo, egypt (el demerdash and el bakri hospitals), al qalubia (banha hospital), al menia (el menia hospital) and al monofia (sheben el kom hospital) from august 2011-february 2012 . The 95 cases i... |
Semipalatinsk is a well - known region of kazakhstan because of the presence of the semipalatinsk nuclear test site (snts) and its close proximity to china, where the lop nor test base is situated . In the period from 1949 to 1962 125 nuclear tests (including 25 near - surface nuclear tests) the date of 29 august 1949 ... |
The concept of minimal invasive dentistry has evolved as a consequence of an increased understanding of caries and the development of adhesive restorative materials . Within this concept, prevention and hard tissue preservation are the primary goals, and dentists are encouraged to prefer a more conservative and biologi... |
Sepsis and septic shock in newborn infants have a high risk of morbidity and mortality . Despite advances in medicine, early clinical signs are nonspecific and the laboratory criteria are also not fully reliable . Warning signs and symptoms are often subtle and can easily be confused with noninfective causes such as ap... |
Uterine leiomyosarcoma (lms) represents 25 - 36% of uterine sarcomas and 1% of uterine malignancies . Although the disease is mostly confined to the uterus, the local and distant metastasis rates are high and long - term survival rates are between 20% and 60% . The possible sites of metastasis are the peritoneal cavity... |
Oesophagus carcinoma is a common malignancy in china and its incidence in 2009 was 22.1 per 100,000 population.1 higher incidence has been reported in southern china including shantou . About 15% of oesophageal cancers arise in the upper thoracic region of the oesophagus . Because of its more posteriorly located anatom... |
Endovascular treatment of large vessel acute ischemic strokes in appropriately selected patients has been endorsed as evidence - based care.1 2 the next steps in advancing this therapy are to develop systems of care that can be divided into prehospital and intra - hospital pathways . Other time - dependent treatments, ... |
In the current issue senn and colleagues present their findings from a study aimed at validating a new version of the flotrac / vigileo monitor (edward lifesciences, irvine, ca, usa), a system that measures cardiac output using the arterial pulse contour method . The method was first used commercially in the finapres (... |
The initial inflammatory response is inherently designed to eradicate microorganisms, promote healing following injury, and restore homeostasis . However, perpetual or excessive inflammatory response may overwhelm the compensatory capacities of the host, eventuating in multiple - organ failure and patient demise . Cyto... |
The terminology for squamous vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (vin) was established by the international society for the study of vulvar disease (issvd). In this classification, abnormal changes in vulvar tissue diagnosed by cytology are categorized as vin1, vin2, or vin3, but vin1 has a low malignant potential and is ... |
Bladder exstrophy is a rare malformation, with the incidence of 1 in every 30,00040,000 births . It occurs when the abdominal wall and underlying structures, including the ventral wall of the bladder, fail to fuse in utero . As a result, the lower urinary tract is exposed, and the everted bladder appears through the ab... |
Prevalence of diabetes is rising rapidly in developing countries, and the global number of diabetes is estimated to reach 366 million in 2030 among adults aged 20 years [1, 2]. Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are powerful and independent risk factors for coronary artery disease (cad), stroke, and peripheral arterial di... |
Legionellosis is most often attributed to inhalation of contaminated aerosols from manmade water systems or, in the case of legionella longbeachae, to inhalation of contaminated potting mixes or composts [13]. From 2003 to 2004, active population - based surveillance for atypical bacterial respiratory pathogens was per... |
This species of wild boars live in condensed populations in south and southwest, north and northeast forests of iran . Wild boar as omnivores consume everything including vegetables, mushrooms, seeds, larvae, reptiles, mammals, birds and their eggs and even carrion and corps of animals . Hence, they are considered as v... |
It is widely accepted that patients with unilateral amblyopia can have a relative afferent pupillary defect (rapd). There have been many reports demonstrating a reduction in the pupil response for amblyopic eyes (brenner 1969; greenwald and folk 1983; portnoy et al 1983; firth 1990; barbur et al 1994; donahue 1997). Si... |
More than 40 years ago, the structural composition of antibodies and functional consequences thereof became elucidated by crystallizing and analyzing haptenbinding fab fragments . The first xray structure of an antibody was revealed in 1973 when poljak et al . Published the structure at 2.8 resolution of the fab fragme... |
Accurate elucidation of lesions in patients with traumatic brain injury (tbi) is essential for guiding treatment strategies, for providing information regarding final outcomes . Diffuse axonal injury (dai) is the predominant mechanism of tbi, and its sequelae are the most frequent cause of poor clinical outcomes . Dai ... |
Odontogenesis is controlled by interactions between the epithelial and mesenchymal components of developing dental tissues . It is thought to be initiated by an increase in the level of angiogenic stimuli and a concomitant decrease in the level of angiogenic inhibitors . These factors are produced by tumor cells, strom... |
Negative myoclonus (nm) is a condition characterized by brief postural lapses of muscle tone, which can be demonstrated via electromyography (emg) recordings.1,2 nm frequently occurs in association with metabolic encephalopathies . The emg correlate of nm is a brief (<500 ms) silent period that is not preceded by any e... |
Namcs is a probability sample survey of office - based physicians in the united states conducted by cdc s national center for health statistics . Bureau of the census has been responsible for field operations and data collection since namcs became an annual survey in 1989 . A report describing sample design, sampling v... |
Modern dental education integrates conventional methods and new training policies such as simulation and virtual reality systems [13]. The current approach to training of hand skills for dental students involves the use of voxel - based models in order to represent a virtual tooth model . However, it is not easy to res... |
Plants are indeed essential to mankind and most plants are harmless, but some cause irritant, allergic and phototoxic dermatitis when in contact with human skin . Most dermatitis inducing plants belong to a limited number of families like alliacae, anacardiaceae, cactaceae, compositae, cruciferae, hennadiaceae, lilliac... |
Metabolic syndrome describes a combination of metabolic abnormalities that include central obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, insulin resistance, and a pro - inflammatory and pro - thrombotic state . An important group of pharmacological targets for the treatment of metabolic syndrome are the peroxisome proliferator ... |
A 36-year - old woman was referred to our clinic with a diagnosis of foveal cyst ou, which were detected upon fundus examination in june 2005 . After mastectomy, she had been started on toremifen, at a daily dose of 40 mg . Optical coherence tomography (oct) showed a focal defect of the outer retinal layer ou (fig . 1c... |
Chronic pain is defined as pain lasting over a period of at least 3 months.1 patients with chronic pain are frequently seen in departments of hand surgery.2 whereas a large proportion of patients benefit from surgical interventions, some continue to suffer from pain regardless of such therapeutic measures.3 depending o... |
The papers in this issue cover aging, as well as depression, dementia, and stroke, and include a range of interventions, including manipulations in behavior (physical and cognitive activity / exercise), physiological factors (caloric restriction, cholesterol), pharmacologic treatments (ampa receptors), manipulation of ... |
Population studies in sweden and many other countries show that hypertension is a common condition, which seriously affects future health and quality of life . It is also evident that other diseases and cardiovascular risk factors interact with high blood pressure in determining the individual global risk . Those with ... |
Dengue infection, an arthropod - borne viral hemorrhagic fever, continues to be a major challenge to public health in south - east asia . Estimates suggest that annually over 50 million cases of severe dengue occur in asian countries with a case fatality rate of lesser than 5% . Of these although dengue virus is a non ... |
Bone metastases originating from esophageal cancer are uncommon and occur in about 9% of newly diagnosed patients, and prognosis is poor . Generally, treatment for cancer patients with distant metastasis differs from that for patients without distant metastasis . The standard treatment for patients with distant metasta... |
Animals and treatment: the experimental design was approved by the laboratory animal care and use committee of iwate university, iwate, japan . Eight clinically healthy holstein bull calves, aged 10 3 weeks, were purchased from a government farm (national livestock breeding center, morioka, japan) and were housed in a ... |
An 18-month - old male patient, weighing 12 kg, was scheduled for removal of foreign body of the upper gastrointestinal tract using endoscopy under anesthesia on an outpatient basis . The patient was delivered vaginally at 39 weeks gestational age, weighing 3,180 g. he was diagnosed with a tracheoesophageal fistula and... |
Lynch syndrome, also known as hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (hnpcc), is an autosomal dominant disorder associated with a germline mutation in one of the dna mismatch repair (mmr) genes, most commonly mlh1 and msh2 and less frequently msh6 and pms2 . Lynch syndrome is characterized by a strongly increased ri... |
India has a low public spending on health care, and the private out of pocket expenditure (oope) on health is one of the highest in the world . One study estimated that 32.5 million people have fallen below the poverty line in 19992000 due to oope on health and overall poverty increased by 3.2% after accounting for it ... |
The korean society of nephrology has maintained an end - stage renal disease (esrd) registry since 1986 . However, serum mineral data have only been collected since 2012 . In 2013, there were 59,918 dialysis patients registered by the korean society of nephrology (hemodialysis, 52,378; peritoneal dialysis, 7,540). Mean... |
Is quinolinic acid (quin or 2,3-pyridine - dicarboxylic acid) an enemy at home? Indeed, it could be: the presence of this endogenous molecule in the brain constitutes a major risk because under normal physiological conditions quin is a component of a major metabolic pathway of tryptophan degradation and can modulate so... |
Almost 40 years after the first report of their existence, intense activity aimed at the chemical synthesis of the chlorosulfolipids (15, figure 1) began independently and essentially simultaneously in at least four research groups around the world . Apparently purely coincidental, this confluence of research might wel... |
Adenoid cystic carcinoma is a relatively rare epithelial tumor of the minor salivary glands that is clinically characterized by slow growth, high frequency of local recurrence and perineural invasion (1,2). The most common localization is the parotid gland, followed by the submandibular and sublingual glands (2). The r... |
Despite advances in therapies and health - care and increasingly sophisticated guidelines, sub - optimal diabetes control remains the norm in many countries with adverse consequences for the individual with diabetes and burgeoning costs for the wider health economy . Over the last few years, a greater understanding of ... |
Bilateral diaphragmatic paralysis (bdp) manifests as respiratory muscle weakness, and prompt evaluation and management are important . However, in some cases, the diaphragm is the initial or the only muscle involved . It can be myopathic or neuropathic in origin, although some cases are considered idiopathic, occurring... |
Mutagenesis plasmid ptuc202, which carries the mccj25 biosynthetic gene cluster (9), was used as the template for site - directed mutagenesis . Mutagenesis was performed with the quikchange site - directed mutagenesis kit (stratagene) in the presence of 6% dmso . For each targeted codon, a pair of 40-nt oligonucleotide... |
Hibernation is a behavioural and physiological adaptation of endothermic animals which enhances survival during extended seasonal periods of reduced food supply and low ambient temperature when core body temperatures can be close to 0c . The ability to hibernate is found throughout the class mammalia and involves diffe... |
Limited hospital financial and personnel resources coupled with the need for established evidence - based clinical practice have forced surgeons and anaesthetists to consider appropriate triage for the immediate postoperative management of patients who have been subjected to major head and neck surgery . Poor nutrition... |
The self - organization of supramolecular structures driven by weak intermolecular interactions is one of the most fascinating thermodynamic phenomena in biology, chemistry, and physics . Because the interactions are weak, many different structures can be formed with the same type of building blocks . In biology, 20 di... |
Mutations affecting the emd gene that encodes the inner nuclear membrane - associated protein emerin cause the x - linked form of emery - dreifuss muscular dystrophy (edmd1). An indistinguishable disease phenotype (edmd2) is caused by mutations in the lmna gene encoding lamin a / c . The finding that the altered expres... |
Although primary gastric lymphoma accounts for only 1% to 7% of all gastric malignant tumors, it constitutes approximately 60% of lymphomas of the gastrointestinal tract.1,2 gastric lymphoma occurs primarily in middle - aged patients (age, 40 to 60 years), with no sex predilection.1 - 3 since isaacson and wright4 first... |
Effective malaria elimination efforts prevent malaria transmission by promoting personal protection and providing appropriate case management with early diagnosis and effective treatment . As recommended by world health organization (who), to control and eliminate malaria successfully sustained political commitment, in... |
Hsp70 has been shown to play an active role in oncogenic transformation and be abundantly expressed in most cancer cells . Plasma membrane hsp70 was demonstrated to act as a tumor - specific recognition structure for preactivated nk cells expressing high amounts of cd94 . Furthermore, the amount of membrane - bound hsp... |
Kikuchi - fujimoto disease constituted 2.1% of 1724 lymph node biopsy specimens in a study published from tirupati and has been occasionally reported from india . Involvement of central nervous system (cns) is very rare in kikuchi - fujimoto disease . We report this case of kikuchi - fujimoto disease with cns involveme... |
A 74-year - old woman was referred to our emergency department because of pyrexia and productive cough for a few days . She underwent replacements of three valves for mitral, tricuspid, and aortic regurgitation at 15, 10, and 2 years earlier . Vital signs showed blood pressure of 110/60 mmhg, temperature of 37c, respir... |
Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of cancer - related death worldwide . In western countries, the incidence of gastric cancer has been decreasing, whereas it remains a main cause of cancer - related death in korea . The incidence of ovarian metastasis or krukenberg tumor after curative resection of gastric can... |
Drug - induced hypersensitivity syndrome is a severe adverse drug reaction, which often manifests as an erythematous skin eruption, fever, lymphadenopathy, peripheral blood eosinophilia, and visceral organ involvement (1). Many drugs cause hypersensitivity syndrome, including anticonvulsants, sulfonamides, dapsone, all... |
Gliomas and glioneuronal tumors constitute the largest and most heterogeneous group of primary central nervous system tumors and diffuse astrocytic tumors (who grades ii - iv) comprise roughly 60% of all the primary intracranial tumors, with an annual incidence of 5 - 7/100,000 person - years . Glioblastoma (gbm; grade... |
In an early ana - world, sequence - independent electrostatic interactions between prebiotically - generated nucleic acids and peptides generate ana - fibers (fig . Growth is driven by the recruitment of basic amyloidogenic peptides through interactions with uncompensated nucleic acid negative charges at fiber ends . B... |
A healthy periodontal complex is the one which is capable of withstanding the stress of mastication, tooth brushing, trauma from foreign objects, tooth preparation associated with crown and bridge, subgingival restorations, orthodontics, inflammation, and frenulum pull . A frenum is a small band or fold of mucosal memb... |
It occurs throughout the water column in deep oceans, and it exerts a significant impact on various biogeochemical cycles . Marinobacter aquaeolei is involved in redox reactions that utilize oxygen and nitrate as terminal electron acceptors . It exhibits hydrocarbon - degrading mechanisms and is capable of diverse extr... |
Lowering blood pressure to values below 140/90 mm hg is of great value for patients with essential hypertension . For those with comorbidities such as diabetes mellitus or renal impairment, the target should even be lower, but with the available antihypertensive drugs, many patients either cannot obtain full control of... |
Differentiated thyroid cancer (dtcs) account for 80% of all thyroid cancers and generally affected patients have a good prognosis . While cancer - specific mortality of low risk (tumor node metastasis [tnm] stage i) patients is approximately 1% at 20 years, this increases to 2545% at 10 years after diagnosis for high -... |
In 1981, i reported on the early results of knee replacement with a total condylar prosthesis in ninety - one patients who had advanced seropositive rheumatoid arthritis . Between 1975 and 1978, 117 knee replacements were performed in ninety - one patients . All of the patients had seropositive rheumatoid arthritis, al... |
Studies using in vitro assay systems and biomarkers have proved mutagenic activity in air samples from urban and industrialized areas . The international agency for research on cancer (iarc) classifies as carcinogens substances and compounds present in air emissions from industrial facilities such as some heavy metals ... |
Sildenafil is increasingly used off - label for treatment of pulmonary hypertension (ph) of various etiologies in infants and children . Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (pphn) and ph associated with congenital heart disease, chronic lung disease, or congenital diaphragmatic hernia are common conditions... |
There is growing evidence that breast lesions characterized by adenosquamous proliferation (asp), whether in the form of a radial sclerosing lesion (incorporating radial scar and complex sclerosing lesion; rsl), a sclerosing papilloma or similar lesions, are phenotypically similar to lowgrade adenosquamous carcinoma (l... |
Caud is classified into saccular variety and globular variety, the former being more common than the latter . The cause and effect relationship between anterior urethral diverticulum (aud) and anterior urethral valve (auv) has been extensively debated . Some authors do not distinguish between aud and auv, while others ... |
Postoperativeadhesions are almost inevitable after most abdominal surgeries . The severity and extent of adhesions are, however, variable, and, fortunately, the majority of adhesions do not manifest clinically . In spite of this, adhesive intestinal obstruction is common in adults and considered the second cause of int... |
Gastric and gastroesophageal junction (gej) adenocarcinoma is an aggressive disease with a 5-year survival rate of 5 - 20% in advanced disease 1 . The international trastuzumab for gastric cancer (toga) trial demonstrated that patients with human epidermal receptor 2 (her2) overexpressing tumours benefit from targeted ... |
Type i neurofibromatosis, also referred to as von recklinghausen s disease, is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by neurofibromas and abnormal cutaneous pigmentation (cafe - au - lait spot). Its malignant transformation, that is malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (mpnst), accounts for about 510 percent o... |
The south sudan ministry of health and world health organization implemented a clinic - based cholera surveillance system that captured basic patient data, laboratory results (if available), and outcomes . A suspected cholera case - patient was defined as anyone with acute watery diarrhea (diagnosed by a clinician); su... |
Antiretroviral therapy (art) plays an important role in the management of hiv - positive patients to prevent the disease progression, further immunosuppression, and the great amount of mortality and morbidity associated with the disease . Nvp is most commonly used non - nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (nnrti... |
Anxiety disorders (ads) are the most common type of psychiatric disorders, with a mean incidence of 18.1% and a lifetime prevalence of 28.8% (kessler et al 2005). Ads results in a great economic burden as it was estimated that they account for a $42.3 billion annual cost in the united states, with over 50% of the total... |
Raves are parties with loud, electronic techno - rock music, laser light shows, and all - night dancing held in clandestine locations, including warehouses, nightclubs, and farm fields1 . The underground or noncommercial music featured at raves which is produced by computers and include little or no vocals is distinct ... |
Critical limb ischemia (cli), a severe condition of perfusion insufficiency in the lower extremities, commonly leads to peripheral artery occlusive disease (paod). Cli is often caused by atherosclerosis related to hypertension, diabetes, or smoking; to date, no effective medical therapy is available for cli . The mean ... |
Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy (pttm) is an uncommon, fatal, malignancy - related complication causing marked pulmonary hypertension, right heart failure, and death . Tumor emboli in the vasculature with consequent local activation of coagulation and by widespread fibrocellular intimal proliferation of smal... |
There have been major changes in accepting medical sciences students, including nursing students, in the university entrance examinations around the world in recent years . Now it is widely accepted that university students should not only fit their future profession in all aspects but also have enough knowledge and in... |
In ontario, canada, the routine pediatric immunization schedule includes vaccines against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, hemophilus influenzae type b (hib) and pneumococcus administered at 2, 4 and 6 mo of age, and vaccines against measles, mumps and rubella (mmr vaccine) and meningococcal disease (type c) admi... |
Aging and weight loss have visible effects on the skin . Structural changes to the skin associated with aging, such as changes in fat distribution and loss of collagen and elastic fibers, cumulate in a loss of tone and elasticity and manifest as wrinkles.1,2 substantial weight loss has also been shown to be associated ... |
Allergic rhinitis (ar) is an upper airway disease that's caused by an ige - mediated inflammatory reaction after allergen exposure (1), and it could contribute to decreased social activity, a poor quality of school life and decreased productivity in moderate - to - severe symptomatic patients (2 - 4). Its incidence is ... |
They most commonly affect men in their elderly 60s and occur in the upper respiratory tract (paranasal sinuses, nose, nasopharynx, and tonsils). They also occur in lymph nodes, lung, thyroid, gastrointestinal tract, liver, spleen, pancreas, testes, breast, or skin (2). Although extramedually plasmacytomas are not commo... |
Samples were purchased from grocery stores, health food shops, and pharmacies in norway . All stores were located in oslo and akershus, two densely populated counties in norway . It was attempted to purchase at least three different products of the same type of vegetable oil (e.g. At least three different product of ex... |
Nutrition is the first need of man; his general health and well being are much dependent on his nutritional status . Nutritional deficiency disorders the most commonly occurring disorders are those associated with protein calorie malnutrition or with vitamin deficiencies . Among the vitamin deficiencies, vitamin a this... |
Central to the way featureextract processes annotation information is a simple but powerful concept the use of an annotation string, which is a string of characters the same length as the dna string . This is best illustrated by a short example showing how the start of the yeast gene ybr062c will be annotated: sequence... |
It remains unclear how cardiac resynchronization therapy (crt) improves symptom status in heart failure population . Crt is one of the major treatment for patients suffering from refractory heart failure (hf) despite an optimal drug regimen . Huge previous trialsconfirmed improvement in both symptom status (nyha class)... |
Odontogenic ghost cell carcinoma (ogcc) is a rare odontogenic tumor characterized by the presence of ghost cells . It can appear as a de novo tumor or may arise in a preexisting calcifying odontogenic cyst (coc). Until now, only 31 cases of ogccs have been reported in literature . Because of the limited number of publi... |
Hepatitis b (hb) vaccine is highly immunogenic and efficacious in preventing hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection (1 - 6). Long - term protection by hb vaccination is dependent on the persistence of strong immunologic memory (7 - 11). Immune memory is a key characteristic of specific immune response and resides in memory ... |
Hemiplegic shoulder pain (hsp) is one of the most common complications after acute stroke . A stroke patient with a flaccid shoulder also has a high likelihood of experiencing hsp during rehabilitation and daily life . Hsp has negative effects on poststroke functional recovery, activities of daily living, quality of li... |
Mitochondria are double - membrane cytoplasmic organelles essential for energy supply to the cell . Adenosine-5-triphosphate (atp), the molecular unit of currency for intracellular energy transfer, is produced by the last of five multisubunit complexes embedded in the inner mitochondrial membrane, which form the respir... |
In recent years the focus in proteomics has shifted from cataloging the parts list of gene products inside the cell toward understanding the structural and functional properties of proteins in a systematic and high - throughput manner . A key step toward this goal is the comprehensive characterization of protein post -... |
All animals were anesthetized with an intraperitoneal injection of 1 g / kg body weight (b.w .) Five mice had a polyethylene (pe50) catheter with an adapted tip (eppendorf, 0030 001.222) inserted into a femoral vein . Through this catheter, a 15 mmol / l mncl2 solution (in 0.9% nacl) was infused at the rate of 4 ml / h... |
All participants provided written informed consent, and the university college london ethics committee approved this study . To better characterize long - term alcohol consumption patterns and to reduce measurement error, we calculated mean alcohol consumption over 10 years for each participant using data from 19851988... |
Posterior inferior cerebellar artery (pica) aneurysms comprise 1% of all intracranial aneurysms, which are usually located at the vertebral artery (va)-pica junction or just distal to it . The pica is well known for its varied anatomical origin and course, originating below the foramen magnum in 18% normal arteriograms... |
Igg4-related disease is a newly recognized fibroinflammatory condition characterized by tumefactive lesions, a dense lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate rich in igg4-positive plasma cells, storiform fibrosis, often but not always elevated serum igg4 concentration and a favorable response to steroids (stone et al ., 2012). The... |
Pituitary tumors are second frequently diagnosed primary cns tumors in both korea and the unites states1523). The conventional classifications are based on the size and functional status of tumors . Furthermore, several other classifications of suprasellar extension and parasellar extension of pituitary adenomas have b... |
Acetaminophen (apap, 4-hydroxyacetanilide), a nonsteroidal analgesic and antipyretic drug, is used for the treatment of a variety of arthritic and rheumatic conditions with musculoskeletal pain and in other painful disorders such as headache, dysmenorrhea, myalgia, and neuralgia . It is also indicated in conditions acc... |
Leiomyosarcoma (lms) of the inferior vena cava (ivc) is a slowly developing tumor which arise from smooth muscle cells of the wall of ivc in 38% cases.1 this tumor reside at the level of segment i represented by sub - renal ivc in 38% cases.2 a 50-year old patient, with no previous medical history, consulted for upper ... |
To report a case of orbital capillary hemangioma in an adult who was successfully treated with topical timolol maleate 0.5% solution . We report an adult patient with a relatively large orbital capillary hemangioma who was successfully treated with a topical -blocker solution . This treatment might be applicable for or... |
First described by kaijser in 1937, eosinophilic enteritis is an uncommon gastrointestinal disorder characterized by symptoms of abdominal pain and partial obstruction . Laparotomy and biopsy reveals pathologic findings of eosinophilic infiltration of bowel wall in the absence of parasitic or extraintestinal disease . ... |
The cardia study is an ongoing, prospective, multicenter, observational study of the natural history of the development of cardiovascular disease risk from young adulthood to midlife . In 1985, 5,115 young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 years were randomly selected from four u.s . Cities: birmingham, alabama; chi... |
Facial pain may be due to many etiologies, including neurological, vascular, or dental in origin . Patients will often make the first attempt at diagnosis in that he or she chooses to consult either a dentist or the primary doctor . Neurological and vascular causes of facial pain are rare compared to dental and temporo... |
It is formed by the rami of the ischium and the pubic bone . The foramen is partially closed by a strong musculoaponeurotic barrier consisting of an internal and an external obturator membrane and an internal and an external obturator muscle . The obturator canal is situated in the cranial portion of this membrane with... |
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