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Medical images are popular in real world because they give intuitive expression . With the development of image processing, computer - aided diagnosis are more important with the ever increasing images . But medical images are often with intensity inhomogeneities; so it is a hard work to segment in such images as angio... |
The study was conducted in the stem cell facility, all india institute of medical sciences (aiims), new delhi, india, after obtaining prior approval of the study protocol by the institute ethics committee . Preparation of porous 3d scaffolds: chitosan, hydroxyapatite and polycaprolactone were supplied by sigma alderich... |
In 2012, an estimated 790,000 women in the united states were diagnosed with cancer, of whom 10% were of reproductive age (american cancer society, 2012, schover, 2005). [nih surveillance] (national institute of health, 2010, society of family planning, 2012) addressing the possibility of future pregnancy is an importa... |
Thyroid cancer is the most common type of cancer in korea, with differentiated thyroid cancer (dtc, includes papillary and follicular thyroid cancer) accounting for the vast majority of cases . The standard treatment for dtc is thyroidectomy followed by i (radioactive iodine, rai) therapy and thyroxine suppression to d... |
First described by cushing in 1898, chyle fistula can induce severe nutritional, metabolic and immune disturbances, delay wound healing, prolong hospital stay and, in the past, even resulted in death [1, 2]. The incidence rate reported in the literature ranges from 0.5 to 2.5% [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. In thyroid surge... |
Hepatomegaly and elevated liver enzyme levels in type 1 diabetes mellitus (dm) patients can be caused by hepatic glycogenosis, viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, or metabolic liver diseases . Mauriac syndrome is a rare complication of type 1 dm that is characterized by hepatomegaly due to hepatic glycogenosis, grow... |
An inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (imt) is a distinctive neoplasm composed of myofibroblastic and fibroblastic spindle cells accompanied by inflammatory infiltration of plasma cells, lymphocytes, and eosinophils . It is important to distinguish this tumor from other malignant spindle cell tumors, such as the sarcom... |
Ultrasound - guided fine - needle aspiration (fna) has become the gold standard for differentiating benign and malignant thyroid nodules due to the suboptimal accuracy using gray scale features alone . Besides for mild associated pain, development of postprocedural hematoma has been reported from 1.9% to 6.4%, with sev... |
Molecular hydrogen (h2) is a zero - emission energy carrier and is one of the best alternative fuels for the future, especially in urban areas with stricter environmental requirements . Hydrogenase (h2ase) enzymes catalyze the bidirectional reaction of 2h + 2e h2 (jugder et al ., 2013; kim & cha, 2013) and thus have at... |
Thousands of children and adolescents across the united states suffer from musculoskeletal conditions each year [1, 2]. Common musculoskeletal conditions in children include cerebral palsy (cp), congenital muscular torticollis (cmt), duchenne muscular dystrophy, idiopathic clubfoot, idiopathic toe walking (itw), legg -... |
Improving quality of life and quality and management of care of clients with a schizophrenic disorder by the use of a comprehensive internet based disease management (dm) platform . Presenting factors influencing the implementation of an internet based dm platform for clients with schizophrenia . Two mental health care... |
Psoriasis is a common, chronic, disfiguring, relapsing, inflammatory, and proliferative condition of the skin . Long - term treatment of moderate - to - severe psoriasis is challenging and often requires a combination, rotational or sequential therapy, with two or more systemic agents . Although it had been avoided ear... |
Fibrosarcoma of the breast is included in this group of sarcomas and this tumor is always malignant, although the malignancy may vary in degree . Primary breast fibrosarcoma is a rare neoplasm . In a review of the literature, barnes and pietruszka reviewed all the cases of breast sarcoma that were seen at the health ce... |
Helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) is a type of bacterium that frequently colonizes the lining of the stomach . H. pylori infection is recognized to be the most important acquired factor in the etiology of ulcers of the stomach and duodenum . H. pylori infection was also shown to be associated with active gastritis, gastr... |
Hyper immunoglobulin e syndrome (hies) is a rare primary immunodeficiency disorder characterized by elevated serum ige, dermatitis, and recurrent skin and lung infections . Three genetic etiologies of hyper ige have been identified: stat3, dock8, and tyk2 . Association with tyk2 deficiency has shown some reported cases... |
A 30-year - old male patient received an above - elbow amputation about eight months prior to seeing us for an open fracture on the left radius and ulna due to trauma . He ended up transferring from one department to another department since his condition did not improve at all during treatment due to constant and seve... |
Biopsies from the ampulla of vater are usually essential to diagnose premalignant and malignant lesions in asymptomatic or symptomatic patients . Acute pancreatitis is an extremely unusual complication following non - thermal biopsy of the ampulla without attempted cannulation . We present this case because of its rari... |
Leptomeningeal dissemination of tumor cells is frequently observed in terminal stage of malignant brain tumors, regardless of the primary origin . Occasionally, benign brain tumors, such as low - grade gliomas, spread to the subarachnoid space14). Recently, report of leptomeningeal dissemination of low - grade glioma i... |
An 18-year - old man was referred to our clinic for the evaluation of blurred vision involving the left eye that had manifested four days previous . He had no specific medical, ocular, or trauma history . The subject's best - corrected visual acuity was 1.0 in the right eye and 0.9 in the left eye . Vf (central 10 - 2 ... |
Congenital maternal hyperplasia (cah) is a group of autosomal recessive disease in which dysfunction of one of the five cortisol coding genes occurs and causes enzymatic defects in cortisol synthesis cycle from cholesterol . The most common form of the disease is 21-hydroxilase deficiency, which accounts for 90 - 95% o... |
Biotinidase (ec 3.5.1.12) is the enzyme responsible for cleaving biocytin and recycling biotin from dietary protein - bound sources, . Profound biotinidase deficiency (less than 10% of mean normal serum activity) (omim #253260) is an autosomal recessively inherited metabolic disorder . Untreated individuals with profou... |
The two membranes of the nuclear envelope, the inner nuclear membrane (inm) and outer nuclear membrane (onm), are separated by a uniform distance of 3050 nm . To facilitate the import and export of cargos, the inm and onm meet at junctions containing nuclear pore complexes (npcs). Furthermore, the onm is contiguous wit... |
Older women with breast cancer have poorer one - year relative survival than younger women and are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stage of disease . Women over the age of 73 are not routinely invited for screening on the english national health service (nhs) breast screening programme; most women with breast... |
A cross - sectional study was performed in 85 patients who were seen in a usual rheumatology outpatient clinic setting in daegu, korea, between may 2012 and july 2012, and who received a diagnosis of as according to the modified new york criteria . The study was reviewed and approved by the ethical review board of the ... |
Osteochondral lesions involve the articular cartilage and underlying subchondral bone, and most often affect the knee and the talus (1). Osteochondral lesions of the femoral head are uncommon, and few studies have reported the imaging findings of such lesions . Since this condition occurs in relatively young patients, ... |
Viral respiratory infections are a leading cause of illness and hospitalization in infants and children worldwide . In 2009 in the united states, more than 300,000 children were hospitalized as a result of infectious respiratory illness . Children with chronic medical conditions have an increased risk of morbidity and ... |
Two investigators (h.z . And s.z .) Carried out the comprehensive literature searches independently using the electronic databases medline, embase, and china national knowledge infrastructure without date and language restrictions . We used any possible combinations of relevant keywords of ppar (e.g., ppar, pparg, ppar... |
Detailed descriptions of the two multicenter, randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled phase 3 studies, including inclusion and exclusion criteria and vms efficacy endpoints, have been published previously.30 the treatment period was 12 weeks in the first study (clinicaltrials.gov identifier nct01361308) and 24... |
The energy level of its lowest lying degenerate vibration is only e = 171 cm, consequently according to the boltzman distribution law it has a population of 58% (29%2 for vibrational degeneracy) of the ground state at dry ice temperature (200 k). Therefore the rotational spectrum in the v10 = 1 state is also strong and... |
Age, gender, oral hygiene practices, and smoking are among the important risk factors that can affect the initiation, progression, and severity of periodontitis . The prevalence and severity of periodontal disease is found to increase with age . Furthermore, lack of oral hygiene encourages plaque formation, which leads... |
The retinal pigment epithelium (rpe) is a monolayer of pigmented cells situated between the neuroretina and the choroids . The rpe is of neuroectodermal origin and is therefore considered to be part of the retina . The apical membrane of the rpe faces the photoreceptor's outer segments and its basolateral membrane face... |
The national aeronautics and space administration (nasa) has partnered with scientists at the center for food and environmental systems for human exploration of space (cfesh) at tuskegee university to incorporate the sweet potato as a viable dietary item in the space food system . According to nasa, foods in the space ... |
Simultaneous occurrence of hashimoto's thyroiditis (ht), and graves disease (gd) is rare . A 60-year - old lady presented with tremulousness of hands, palpitation, and excessive sweating . Her weight was 46 kg, bmi 17, afebrile, regular pulse rate of 110/min with fine tremor in hands . Thyroid gland was symmetrically e... |
Plasma cell gingivitis (pcg) is a rare condition characterized by diffuse and massive infiltration of plasma cells into the sub - epithelial gingival tissue . Clinically, it appears as diffuse reddening and edematous swelling of the gingiva with a sharp demarcation along the mucogingival border . Pcg is known by a vari... |
G - quadruplexes (g4), secondary dna structures consisting of g - quartet planers in g - rich regions, play significant biological roles for example, control of transcription and telomeric lengths [119]. One typical g4 forming dna sequence is a telomere, which exists at the ends of chromosomes consisting of (ttaggg)n r... |
The act of eating the earth including clay and chalk is neither new nor outdated . Geophagia, the practice of eating earth is associated with religious beliefs, medicinal and dietary purposes . The implication of this act is the exposure to toxic substances and parasites that are present in the ingested earth. [24] one... |
In conventional information theory and cryptography, it is taken for granted that a digital message can always be copied easily, even by someone ignorant of its meaning . Analog messages (e.g. Handwritten signatures) are somewhat harder to copy, but not really infeasible, and digital data can be protected to a consider... |
A cross - sectional and longitudinal study was conducted that included 22 medical clinics (i.e., general practitioners) or general / university - affiliated hospitals from different areas in japan, using the same software (codic) to compile electronic medical records, as a working study group, the japan diabetes clinic... |
Brucellosis is endemic in low socio - economic countries like india and the prevalent species causing human infections are brucella melitensis and brucella abortus . Contact with the infected animals, consumption of raw milk and ignorance regarding the disease, are the major risk factors . Since clinical manifestations... |
Defining cancer stem cells and their origins is of much controversy, and constitutes a challenged knockout for cell targeting- anticancer drugs . Herein, we put forward a hypothetic model for cancer stem cells initiation from bone marrow stem cells . These later, will differentiate into an ancestral progenitor that act... |
The successful isolation of individual layers of graphene in 2004 has triggered an intense interest in its unique structural and electronic properties . A very high carrier mobility along with weak spin orbit and hyperfine interactions predestinates graphene as a promising material for spintronics, mainly if magnetic o... |
Sphingosine 1-phosphate (s1p) is a biologically active lysophospholipid which is produced by the metabolism of sphingolipid catalyzed by sphingosine kinase . S1p is involved in various cell activities including cell differentiation, apoptosis, proliferation, migration, and others . The roles of s1p have recently drawn ... |
Gene duplication plays a key role in evolution by providing dna templates for evolutionary innovation, while preventing interference with the cellular function of the original genes (13). Immediately after gene duplication, the resulting paralog pairs are usually identical and therefore functionally redundant . Unless ... |
This retrospective study was approved by the institutional review board of our hospital (2014 - 09 - 037). Between november 2011 and october 2014, 245 patients in the icu underwent bedside pdt with a ciaglia blue rhino percutaneous tracheostomy set (cook medical, bloomington, in, usa) due to prolonged endotracheal tube... |
We report here five newly sequenced and assembled penicillium genomes, which we compared with previously available data [1619]. The full dataset included the genome sequences of ten penicillium species, six of which are either used as industrial inocula for cheese making (penicillium roqueforti and penicillium camember... |
Orthodontic anchorage is a basic procedure necessary for a successful treatment . For this reason, clinicians seek to better understand various orthodontic devices, such as headgear, transpalatal arch, lingual arch, and nance's button . These devices allow a certain degree of movement of the anchorage unit and are depe... |
Heart transplantation continues to provide patients with end - stage heart disease with extended survival with a half - life of 9.3 years between 2000 and june 2008 . . However, despite substantial advancements in immunosuppression, patients continue to be at significant risk for allograft rejection early after cardiac... |
Are frequently present in the water systems of large buildings, and exposure to these bacteria occurs therefore regularly . Nonetheless, legionnaires' diseases (lds), the most severe form of illness due to legionella spp ., seem to be a rare outcome of exposure . This has been underpinned by outbreak investigations sug... |
Dizziness has a high incidence worldwide, and the impact of vestibular disease on quality of life has been increasingly investigated . Many patients with dizziness restrict their daily activities and leisure in order to reduce the risk of onset of unpleasant and frightening symptoms, as well as to avoid the social emba... |
Coronary heart disease (chd) is the cause of 17.1 million deaths per year throughout the world (1). Thus, chd is today the largest single contributor to global mortality and will continue to dominate mortality trends in the future . It has been reported that the majority of deaths (39%) in low- and middle - income coun... |
Type 2 diabetes (t2d) is an increasingly widespread disease in both developed and developing countries . By the year 2030, it is predicted that more than half a billion people worldwide will be affected by this disease . Not only does t2d burden patients with numerous associated health complications such as cardiovascu... |
Endovascular occlusion with detachable platinum coils has become an established treatment for managing patients who have ruptured intracranial aneurysms (1 - 3). Although numerous studies regarding endovascular or surgical treatment for ruptured intracranial aneurysms have been reported in the literature, there are onl... |
Trefoil factors (tffs) represent a family of small peptides (6 - 10 kda) characterized by a common sequence, consisting of 42 - 43 amino - acids and highly conserved in mammals 1 . Intramolecular disulphide bonds within the sequence cause the formation of the characteristic three - loop structure, called the trefoil do... |
In a recent issue of the new england journal of medicine, greet van den berghe and co - workers published a confirmation of the life - saving effects of tight glycaemia control by intensive insulin therapy (iit) in medical intensive care unit (icu) patients . This second study intended to answer some of the questions a... |
To compare in - s and in - e among the three groups, the values were log - normally transformed to an approximately normal distribution before analysis, the geometric means (gm) and the geometric standard deviations (gsd) were calculated, and the steel rank sum test was applied . A single regression model and a single ... |
Distal gastrectomy is a well - known risk factor for developing gastric stump cancer later . In particular, cancer frequently occurs near the gastrojejunostomy site in the remnant stomach following a billroth ii reconstruction . One proposed theory is that the enterogastric reflux of bile and pancreatic secretions chro... |
For decades, urinary sodium (nau) was used to define the presence of structural damage to the kidneys in the setting of oliguria or azotemia . The preserved capacity of the tubules to retain sodium was the physiological basis to interpret low levels of nau as a functional response to a low renal perfusion state: socall... |
In patients receiving radiotherapy and chemotherapy for esophageal and lung cancers, it is not uncommon to witness development of life - threatening tracheo - esophageal fistula (tof). Various procedures have been tried including surgical repair, endoprostheses, endo - bronchial gluing and tracheal stents . Other worke... |
Castleman's disease is a lymphoproliferative disorder with benign hyperplastic lymph nodes characterized histologically by (a) follicular hyperplasia, and (b) capillary proliferation with endothelial hyperplasia (1). This disease has been classified histopathologically as hyalinevascular, plasma cell, or a mixed type v... |
Bladder pain syndrome / interstitial cystitis (bps / ic) is a clinical diagnosis primarily based on symptoms of urinary urgency, frequency, and suprapubic or pelvic pain . The prevalence of bps / ic ranges from 10 to up to 510 cases per 100,000 population . The etiology of bps / ic is so far unknown, with several theor... |
Chromatin is made up of nucleosomes comprising histone octamers with a stable tetrameric core of histones h3 and h4, flanked by two more labile dimers of histone, h2a and h2b . Each histone octamer is wrapped by 147 bp dna, which facilitates the compaction of genomic dna and regulates access to regulatory factors (work... |
Seroprevalence of hydatidosis is between 1.2 and 13.8% in the different region of iran (1). Brain involvement occurs in 12% of patients with hydatidosis and comprises 2% of all brain masses in the endemic region, especially among the children (2). Symptoms of the brain hydatid cyst vary by location and size of the cyst... |
Medical files of the patients who were referred to the outpatient clinics of children s health and diseases of namik kemal university research, and application hospital were analyzed, and height, bodyweight, waist, and hip circumferences of the patients were recorded . Among these cases, patients who had undergone comp... |
Recent technological advances in the field of radiation oncology are revolutionizing the management of cancer with ionizing radiation . Through the use of highly conformal techniques, the ability to deliver curative doses to sub - millimeter accuracy is unprecedented to now . In particular, intensity - modulated radiot... |
Padma 28 is a multicomponent, traditional tibetan herbal plant remedy comprised of 20 specific herbs and 2 nonherbal ingredients . The main padma's active substances are bioflavonoids, tannins, phenolic acids, phenolic alcohols, and terpenoids [1, 2]. Both aqueous and alcohol - based padma 28 preparations exhibited evi... |
Racially / ethnically diverse individuals with diabetes diagnosed at age <18 years and not due to another condition were recruited through clinics, health fairs, and mailings . One hundred probands with childhood - onset diabetes have participated with their families to date; this analysis was restricted to those with ... |
In a laboratory experiment previously reported (9), the first generation (f1) larval progeny of engorged a. aureolatum female ticks collected in atibaia, so paulo state, brazil, were allowed to feed on 4 r. rickettsii infected guinea pigs (infected group) and 2 uninfected guinea pigs (control group). These guinea pigs ... |
The introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (haart) and antibiotic prophylaxis against pulmonary opportunistic infections have resulted in considerable reduction of morbidity and mortality of this kind of patients . Some of hiv - infected patients have pulmonary opportunistic infections in the haart era as... |
We describe the first valve - in - valve corevalve transcatheter aortic valve replacement in the st . Jude toronto stentless porcine aortic valve in the united states, which enabled this 59-year - old patient with a history of bacterial endocarditis and aortic regurgitation to avoid heart transplant with complete resol... |
Briefly, we retrospectively reviewed adult mdr tb and xdr tb patients admitted during 20032008 for treatment initiation to king george v hospital (kgvh), a public tb - referral hospital in kwazulu - natal . Admitting physicians and staff collected data routinely . During the study period, kgvh was the only public hospi... |
We analysed data from the czech part of the hapiee project (peasey et al . The study recruited over 8000 caucasian men and women aged 4569 years at baseline (20022005), randomly sampled from population registers of seven czech towns . Dna was extracted from venous blood samples and apoe genotypes were determined using ... |
Diaphyseal aclasis, also termed hereditary multiple exostosis (hme) or osteochondromatosis is characterised by multiple bony prominences that grow near joint lines throughout the skeleton . These bony prominences, otherwise known as exostoses, can present as painless bony deformities or as a complication of the bony gr... |
A child is brought into a pediatric emergency unit with an unprovoked, afebrile first seizure . We conduct a clinical assessment of the child and rule out any acute metabolic, traumatic or infectious causes and consequently, make the diagnosis of an epileptic seizure . The international league against epilepsy suggests... |
Thanks to technological progress, in the last 30 years there has been a significant increase in the number of patients with esrd (end - stage renal disease) undergoing renal replacement therapy . Despite this progress, recent statistics show that technological advancement does not translate into reduced mortality or mo... |
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is presented mainly by bronchitis and emphysema in various combinations, often with asthmatic complications . Development of cor pulmonale and/or upper respiratory infections may exacerbate the clinical outcome in chronic course of the disease . Clinical examination as well ... |
The feasibility and effectiveness of vision screening programs for detection of glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy (dr), cataracts, age - related macular degeneration (amd) have been described [13]. The majority of such programs employ digital color fundus imaging to determine whether a follow - up examination with an opht... |
A vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (vip)-producing neuroendocrine tumour (vipoma) is an extremely rare tumour that presents with symptoms such as watery diarrhoea and hypokalaemia as a result of vip overproduction . Surgery is generally the preferred treatment, but molecular - targeting drugs such as everolimus and su... |
Gout is a common inflammatory arthritis that is characterized by the deposition of monosodium urate crystals in the synovium . An estimated 6.1 million adults in the united states have gout.1 monosodium urate crystals have decreased solubility at lower temperatures, and consequently, the most commonly affected sites ar... |
The contour of the lower face, including the lips and soft - tissue chin, is thought to be closely related to the underlying dentoalveolar structure . Both the upper and the lower lips are known to increase in length during growth and maintain a fairly constant vertical relationship with the edges of the corresponding ... |
Rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that primarily targets the synovium and articular cartilage, leading to synovitis and progressive joint damage . However the pathophysiology of ra is poorly understood, the pro - inflammatory adipocytokines such as leptin, resistin and visfatin have... |
Chronic kidney disease is a clinical syndrome consisting of a variety of symptoms and metabolic disorders that arise from the progressive and irreversible decline of kidney function . The end stage of chronic kidney disease is uremia [13], which is not an independent kidney disease, but rather a series of clinical mani... |
Mccune albright syndrome is rare with an estimated prevalence of 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 1,000,000 persons . The classical clinical triad consists of fibrous dysplasia of the bone, caf - au - lait skin spots and precocious puberty . She had a short stature, round face, thick neck, and short fourth metacarpals and metatars... |
The cytokine interferon- is critical for protection against viral and bacterial infections and tumor development . Its biological activities require the phosphorylation of stat1 at a single tyrosine residue (stark and darnell, 2012). Stat activation, as it transforms the stat1 dimers into dna binding transcription fact... |
Case - patients and controls were recruited from jeroen bosch hospital in s - hertogenbosch and bernhoven hospital in oss and veghel; both are regional hospitals located in the center of the q fever epidemic area in the netherlands . The study design was approved by the medical research ethics committee of the universi... |
They are usually encountered as incidental findings in magnetic resonance imaging (mri), or in arthroscopy . They may originate from both the cruciate ligaments and the menisci, from the popliteus tendon and alar folds, infrapatellar fat pad of hoffa, and subchondral bone cysts . Those arising from the hoffa s fat pad,... |
The caudate lobe lies deep in the liver, between the hepatic hila and the retrohepatic inferior vena cava (ivc), and is adjacent to the major hepatic veins in its upper part . Although the caudate lobe constitutes only a small part of the whole liver, it has the same histologic structure and the same incidence of devel... |
This investigation is based on cross - sectional data from 275 independently living individuals who participated in the follow - up in 2008 of the longitudinal study on nutrition and health status of senior citizens of giessen (gisela study), germany (50.6north). Investigations took place in the institute of nutritiona... |
The problem of finger in the patient with diabetes mellitus is important consideration in diabetology . Generally, peripheral neuropathy that manifests with finger paresthesia, numbness, and blanching is common . Nerve conduction studies, vibration and temperature threshold measurements, and neurovascular function test... |
The host's immune response is one of the main pathogenic determinants of lung injury during pcp [17] and involves the interactions between immune cells and soluble mediators such as cytokines and chemokines . Animal models of scid, rag1, rag2 or, cd4-t - cell - depleted mice directly demonstrate the role of cd4 t cells... |
Most osteoporotic compression fractures heal with mild residual deformities, and clinical complications are usually rare5). When conservative treatment offers no symptomatic improvement, percutaneous vertebroplasty or balloon kyphoplasty have been safely used and have provided rapid pain relief with mechanical stabiliz... |
The presence of concomitant cranial nerve signs or facial weakness generally prompts a search for cerebral etiologies such as stroke, neoplasms or inflammatory processes, while it may occasionally be due to a lesion located in the high cervical spinal cord.1 in this concise review, we describe the features of spontaneo... |
Because of variations in pathological and clinical features of the disease, npd is classified into those with deficiency of acid sphingomyelinase activity (types a and b), and those with defective intracellular processing and transporting of ldl cholesterol, which is known as type c. however, npd type c (npc) is differ... |
A 7-year - old spayed domestic longhair cat from perth, western australia, presented with left - sided head tilt, dysphonia, head shaking, inappetence and weight loss . Otitis media with extension into the external ear canal was suspected and investigated using video - otoscopy and computed tomography examination . Inv... |
Parkinson disease (pd) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with widely heterogeneous manifestations, including motor, nonmotor and neuropsychiatric symptoms . It affect~1% of the people older than 60 years.13 the major pathologic feature of pd is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra pars compact... |
Due to its dismal prognosis, pancreatic cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer death in europe and the usa . From a clinical point of view therefore, complete surgical resection of the primary tumor represents the only curative treatment option . However, even patients with tumor - free margins (r0 resection)... |
Clear - cell sarcoma (ccs) is a rare malignant connective tissue tumor that was first described by enzinger in 1965 . Ccs occurs most commonly in adolescents and young adults and the patients aged> 60 years are rare . It has a high rate of local recurrence, regional lymph node metastasis, and distant metastasis [1, 2].... |
A well - established theoretical framework for the evolution of cooperative interactions contrasts partner fidelity and partner choice as the most important mechanisms promoting and maintaining cooperation . Previous studies have empirically shown that partner choice via host sanctions or differential rewards can stabi... |
Preoperative anxiety or stress have been thought to delay gastric emptying and increase gastric acidity and is therefore considered one of risk factors related with aspiration pneumonitis . In large series of olsson et al . (1), it was reported that pain and anxiety were able to be important mechanisms of decreasing in... |
Generally, plastic reconstruction involves free skin grafts (3) or flaps . Soft tissue defects that are present in the diabetic foot often need flap reconstruction . It is our opinion that skin grafts are not usually recommended for a majority of the extremely deep and severe wounds encountered forms b, c, d; grades ii... |
Severe chronic neutropenia is a congenital condition defined as an absolute neutrophil count (anc) of less than 500/l for at least three months (1, 2). Generally, underlying hematologic disorders, autoimmune diseases, viral infections, or drugs causing neutropenia should be excluded . There are three categories accordi... |
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