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Health - care providers were confident of having enough knowledge to work out preventive activities, but expressed their need for a work - up protocol to follow the consecutive steps of the programme and for helpdesk support . Most of them perceived preventive activities as a challenging task and as an intrinsic part o... |
Since the advent of the first - generation iphone (apple inc, cupertino, ca, usa) in 2007, smartphones have become a part of our lives . Smartphones, which evolved from personal digital assistants (pda), are expected to be used by more than 100 million people worldwide in 2012 . Not only can individuals use smartphones... |
Normal aging is associated with cognitive decline in various domains, such as executive control, working memory, and episodic memory, and has been linked with structural morphology and functional changes in the brain [1, 2]. There has been accumulating evidence that older adults exhibit structural volumetric decreases,... |
Platinum- (pt-) based chemotherapeutic agents have been utilized in the treatment malignancies since their first approval in the 1970s . Cisplatin, carboplatin, and oxaliplatin are the three most commonly used pt drugs in the usa and are an essential part of the standard of care for lung, ovarian, colorectal, testicula... |
Gynecomastia is the development of a fibroepithelial structure in the male breast due to several factors, with resemblance to female breast . Gynecomastia may occur owing to physiological changes, systemic diseases, tumors, and medications . Angiotensin - converting enzyme inhibitors, spironolactone, digoxin, amiodaron... |
In 2003, the united nations adopted a comprehensive approach to the prevention vertical transmission (pvt) of hiv among infants and young children, consisting of the following four essential elements: primary prevention of hiv infection among women of childbearing age;preventing unintended pregnancies among women livin... |
Hypopituitarism is the partial or complete insufficiency of anterior pituitary hormone secretion and may result from pituitary or hypothalamic disease . The earlier reported incidence of (1242 new cases per million per year) and prevalence of (300455 per million) the prevalence of hypopituitarism was 46 cases per 100,0... |
Prevention of -cell dysfunction is critical for avoiding the development and progression of type 2 diabetes (1). Assessing in vivo insulin secretion is complex because the release of insulin from the -cell is influenced by multiple factors including systemic insulin sensitivity, hepatic insulin extraction, plasma free ... |
Diatoms are believed to be the most important primary producers in the ocean, accounting for approximately 40% of total marine primary productivity . These organisms are extensively distributed, are often dominant in well - mixed coastal and open - ocean upwelling regions, warm oligotrophic gyres, and the southern and ... |
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disorder characterized by the presence of noncaseating granulomas in affected tissues . The most commonly affected organs are the lungs and lymph nodes, followed by the liver, although several other organs can also be involved, including the liver, skin, eyes, heart, and brain . Previous re... |
Although commercial air travels have become one of the safest forms of transport, many people are still affected by aerophobia . In fact, the last years have been characterized by a growing request for fear of flying intervention programs . Nevertheless, rather few controlled studies on the compared effectiveness of di... |
Gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) may give rise to higher risks of multiple complications for mother and fetus, including miscarriage, preterm delivery, pregnancy hypertension, embryonic abnormalities, macrosomia, and even fetal death . Prevalence of gdm in china is increasing, from 3.7% in 1995 to 5.1% in 2008 . Inc... |
Ameloblastoma and odontogenic keratocyst (okc) are known as aggressive benign odontogenic neoplasms (abons) due to their aggressive behavior . They have substantial potential to grow to enormous size with resulting bone deformities, invade the adjacent tissues and spread beyond their normal clinical and radiographic ma... |
However while there is a considerable amount of literature available on the subjective influences in adults little is known about esthetics in children [1, 2]. Early childhood caries (ecc) is defined as the presence of one carious lesion or more on the teeth of children younger than 71 months of age . The labial surfac... |
According to the last report from the nari 2006 (national art registry of india), recipient cycles were performed in approximately 12% of all art cycles . In 50% of recipient cycles, a dedicated donor was stimulated and rest of 50% recipients had egg sharing with a patient . The success of oocyte donation may be influe... |
Dopaminergic (da) neurons located in the substantia nigral (sn) region of the midbrain serve as modulators for motor control . Progressive loss of these neurons is a hallmark of parkinson's disease (pd), the second most common neurodegenerative disorder . The cellular and molecular mechanisms driving pd pathogenesis ar... |
. Feedback control may actually increase rather than decrease instability due to the inherent time - delay in the neural close - loop control . We focused on measuring the mechanical impedance of the ankle during walking because the ankle is critical for propulsion, shock absorption, and balance during standing and wal... |
The major pathological hallmarks of ad besides neuronal loss are amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (nfts). Both amyloid plaques and nfts have been implicated in neuronal impairment and death in a large number of studies . Although a great deal of controversy exists about the relative importance of amyloid pla... |
Studies of calling in frogs have produced substantial insight to our understanding of sexual selection, speciation, and the evolution of communication systems [17]. The astonishing diversity of frog calls has inspired studies on the selective forces that drive their diversification and evolutionary history . Potential ... |
The chemical and physical properties of atmospheric aerosol particles affect their ability to serve as cloud condensation nuclei (ccn), thus influencing cloud properties and lifetime and earth s radiative balance . There are thousands of different organic compounds in the atmosphere, either directly emitted from anthro... |
Expensive and time - consuming processes have forced an increase in efficiency in the research industry; this, as well as the increasing need for documentation, introduces the problem of pipetting robots operating blind . The operator provides the reagents and substances for the system to work with according to a prepr... |
The choroid is the posterior portion of the uveal tract and outlines the retina and retinal pigment epithelium (rpe). It comprises three vasculature layers: haller layer that includes large vessels, sattler layer with medium vessels occupying choroidal stroma (figure 1), and the innermost layer of choriocapillaris that... |
The aim of this paper was to investigate potential correlations between ambient sulphur dioxide and female emergency department (ed) visits for migraine in two canadian cities, toronto and ottawa, two locations with different levels of the pollutant concentrations . Conditional logistic regression was applied to realiz... |
It allows listeners to accurately localize the direction of incoming sounds in their everyday listening and communication . With this ability, listeners can construct auditory images and have a sense of the environment they are in . It is especially critical for a listener to know the direction of surrounding sounds in... |
Requisition storage and retrieval are an integral part of any routine or specialized outpatient clinical laboratory . Patients receive a paper requisition from their physician indicating the required tests, and the patient brings it to a satellite bleed - station or a hospital for specimen collection . The process of s... |
Skull base chondrosarcomas are rare tumors of cartilaginous tissue arising from cellular nests of nonossified bone . The mainstay of treatment for these lesions is surgical excision along with adjuvant radiotherapy.1 2 3 4 5 however, several traditional surgical resection techniques such as the retrosigmoid and transco... |
Since kossard's original description of frontal fibrosing alopecia (ffa) in 1994 as a scarring alopecia characterized by progressive recession of the frontotemporal hairline in postmenopausal women, zinkernagel and treb reported in 2000 yet another form of fibrosing alopecia in a pattern distribution (fapd) affecting t... |
Nitrogen vacancy centers (nvcs) in diamond have great promise for applications in quantum computing, fluorescence labeling, and electric and magnetic field sensing . Several exciting advances have been recently reported including nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy on nanometer length scales and fluorescence imagin... |
Merkel cell carcinoma (mcc) is a rare neuroendocrine skin tumor, with a high risk of local and distant spread . The incidence of mcc is 0.32 per 100.000, showing an increasing incidence with advanced age and in male caucasians . Progression in incidence might be linked to the constantly increasing exposure to ultraviol... |
Different reasons might be responsible for delayed or nonunion healing . In the clinical setting, nonunion increases the cost of care, necessitates additional surgeries, and results in a prolonged period of convalescence, which is associated with increased mortality . The incidence of hemorrhagic shock following long b... |
The incidence of diffuse large b cell lymphoma (dlbcl) increases with age, with approximately 40% of patients aged over 70 years . Combination chemotherapy has improved the prognosis of dlbcl; before the rituximab era the standard treatment included cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisolone (chop). W... |
A total of 30 anisakis type i larvae were removed from the stomach of 16 patients referred to the department of parasitology and tropical medicine, seoul national university college of medicine, seoul, south korea, from 2000 through 2013 (table). Among them, 26 larvae were analyzed by dna sequencing . All patients expe... |
There has been a significant increase in the number of internal jugular veins (ijv), which are cannulated for the purposes of haemodynamic monitoring and resuscitation, haemodialysis and the administration of drugs and parenteral nutrition . This has been paralleled by an increase in the number of the various complicat... |
Photodynamic therapy (pdt) is considered a selective method of treatment which works in areas of choroidal neovascularization (cnv); however, there are reports of choroidal hypoperfusion after pdt . This paper presents a clinical case of choroidal circulation disturbances caused by pdt, accompanied by cnv progression .... |
Pregnant women with impaired glucose tolerance (igt) is prone to gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) and is characterized by impaired insulin sensitivity . Insulin resistance and impaired pancreatic beta - cell function are important factors for gdm . Undesirable effects of hyperglycemia and gdm include emberyonic mort... |
The boluscal study was a prospective, randomized, controlled, open - label, three - arm parallel, bicentric clinical study of 51 adults with type 1 diabetes . Eligibility criteria were age 1865 years, type 1 diabetes duration 12 months, and use of mdi therapy with long- and rapid - acting insulin analog . Pregnancy, nu... |
The study design consisted of a cross - sectional, community - based survey of a qualitative and quantitative nature . The sampling method employed ensured a nationally representative sample, with sufficient numbers of subjects in each of the two target populations: 510 years of age (primary school - aged children) and... |
Nickel titanium (ni - ti) rotary endodontic files are known for its shape memory and super - elastic properties . Torsional failure occurs when an instrument tip or another part of the instrument is locked in a canal while the shank continues to rotate . When torque exerted by the handpiece exceeds the elastic limit of... |
Blindness as an outcome of eye disease may cause affective disorders,1 while sleep disorders usually accompany mood disorders . For example, a considerable proportion of patients with macular degeneration,2 glaucoma,3,4 cataract,5 and dry eye disease (ded)6,7 suffer from depression . Patients with macular degeneration ... |
Conducting polymer (cp) and metal nanoparticle composites or the so - called nanocomposites have received much attention recently due to their potential applications in electrocatalysis, chemical sensors, electrochemical capacitors, and protective coatings against corrosion . Various methods for the preparation of thes... |
Farmers are exposed to a variety of pollutants particularly heavy metals that are released into the environment as a consequence of agricultural activities such as the use of pesticides and fertilizers . Some metals are extremely toxic to humans and the toxic heavy metals of greatest concern include cadmium, lead, and ... |
In contrast to acute ar, chronic ar may maintain normal left ventricular (lv) function through the combination of chamber dilatation with hypertrophy . The conventional echocardiographic parameters such as left ventricular ejection fraction (lvef) have limitations in predicting early lv dysfunction . Recent clinical st... |
Positron emission tomography (pet) with f - fluorodeoxyglucose (f - fdg) has emerged as an increasingly common component of pretreatment cancer staging and response assessment . The use of concurrent computed tomography (ct) and pet (pet - ct) can improve detection sensitivity and is used in target delineation for radi... |
Some instances of new gene evolution from previously non - coding sequence have now been discovered [1, 2]. Also, new genes can be formed by shuffling of pre - existing nucleotide sequences . The relatively recent discovery of large numbers of taxonomically restricted genes also demands a closer investigation of their ... |
Ectopic liver tissue is a rare entity that involves the presence of hepatic tissue in a number of sites outside of the native liver such as the gallbladder, hepatic ligaments, omentum, retroperitoneum, and thorax [15]. In most situations, rarely, they may present with symptoms of abdominal pain secondary to torsion, co... |
Current american college of cardiology / american heart association guidelines recommend initiation of dual antiplatelet therapy as soon as possible after admission among all eligible mi patients regardless of revascularization strategy . This recommendation is based on evidence from multiple randomized trials showing ... |
Barbital (btl; 5,5-diethyl-2,4,6(1h,3h,5h)-pyrimidinetrione or 5,5-diethylbarbituric acid; scheme 1) was the first commercially available barbiturate, which was applied as a sedative and hypnotic drug during the first half of the 20th century . This compound was marketed as tablets under the brand name veronal (bayer) ... |
Renal cell carcinoma (rcc) is the third most common malignancy of the urinary tract and accounts for almost 3% of adult malignancies . Recent progress in the development of molecular targeted agents has expanded the treatment options for patients with metastatic rcc . Sunitinib is an oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor targ... |
Treatment of peritoneal surface malignancies (psm) by cytoreductive surgery (crs) combined with heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (hipec) is an evolving technique with encouraging results 1 . Patient selection for the procedure requires a multi - disciplinary approach and combines many clinical as well as pathologica... |
Laparoscopic pyeloplasty (lp) is a minimally invasive alternative to open pyeloplasty for the treatment of ureteropelvic junction obstruction . It has been shown to provide lower patient morbidity, shorter hospitalization and faster convalescence . However, there is an inherent risk of surgical (blind trocar insertion,... |
Agarose (agarose type i - a, low eeo, sigma - aldrich, st . Louis, mo, usa) melted in distilled water at 0.5 to 5% (w / v) was poured into paraffin embedding molds and allowed to cool slowly at room temperature to make agarose gels 2 - 5 mm in thickness . The agarose gels were removed from the molds and redundant gel e... |
With> 600 000 deaths per year, heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the united states,1 despite large national declines in heart disease mortality over the past 60 years.2, 3, 4, 5 nationally, these declines have varied by both race and sex . White men have experienced large, sustained declines in heart ... |
A prospective study of household tuberculosis contacts was conducted in the val - de - marne suburb of paris, as detailed in . Briefly, val - de - marne is an area of low tuberculosis endemicity with an annual tuberculosis incidence of 22.1 cases per 100 000 inhabitants . From april 2004 to january 2009, household cont... |
Circumference - derived diameter showed maximum dimension at 20% of the cardiac cycle . Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (tavi) provides a minimally invasive therapeutic option for patients with aortic valve stenosis who cannot undergo conventional open - heart surgery [15]. Unfortunately, current prostheses sti... |
The burden of this condition is more common in children, especially in developing countries such as india because of poor regulation of the sale of corrosive substances, negligence and low socio - economic status . The statistical report from the usa for 2008 documents an incidence of 191,397 cases of corrosive injurie... |
The fundamental understanding of molecular reactivity continues to fuel countless aspects of scientific discovery . One model for understanding reactivity that has recently received great attention is the distortion / interaction model . Strain model according to bickelhaupt, divides the activation energy of a bimolecu... |
The main causes of oil pollution in the oceans are extraction of oil, transportation with ballast water release and tanker accidents, and also war - related incidents land and offshore oil wells also can be a source of oil spills into ocean water . Oil spills from such accidents may quickly spread over many square mile... |
Green and blue points mark the mature trees and the seedlings, respectively (scale bar = 200 m). |
The metabolic syndrome is characterized by a collection of cardiovascular risk factors that include obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and glucose intolerance / insulin resistance and together predispose individuals to an increased risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes [1, 2]. The increased prevalence of obesity... |
Growth hormone (gh) and its physiological mediator, insulin - like growth factor-1(igf-1), have a major role in linear bone growth and accrual of bone mass during childhood and adolescence . In general, linear growth - promoting effects of gh appear to depend upon the production of igf-1 and perhaps other igf peptides ... |
Twenty - one cases of nodular fasciitis and 37 cases of low - grade sarcoma were chosen from the surgical specimens of eulji university hospital, daejeon, between january 2000 and december 2009 . All available clinical data were acquired from a review of the patients' medical records . The histopathological diagnosis w... |
Population - based studies suggest that mild cognitive impairment (mci), at a level below what would be diagnosed as dementia, is more prevalent (1020%) than dementia (56%). Annually, 1015% of elderly people with mci progress to dementia, compared with 12% of elderly people who progress to dementia from normal cognitiv... |
Most organs consist of a variety of cell types with interdependent functions . To understand organ function and disease, genome - wide information on each cell type is crucial . Studies on pooled material detect global gene expression patterns but represent an average dominated by the most abundant cell types . With th... |
Actinomyces neuii are irregularly shaped gram - positive rods that grow well under aerobic conditions as other species in the genus, but do not display the typical branching filaments and do not cause the typical lesions of actinomycosis with purulent discharge of sulfur granules observed in most other actinomyces spec... |
Low molecular weight heparins (lmwhs) have now largely replaced unfractionated heparin (ufh) in the prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism (vte) due to ease of administration and a more predictable pharmacokinetic profile . However, certain patient demographics were not included in the early randomized tria... |
Gastrointestinal cancer is a common digestive system tumor, accounting for 30% of the global incidence and 40% of the global malignant tumor mortality . Tumor recurrence and metastases therefore, prognostic and predictive factors are urgently needed for a better - personalized treatment . Circulating tumor cells (ctcs)... |
The oral cavity has been the most prominent site of drug delivery for a long period of time . In 1847 recent developments in the formulation technology have presented viable dosage alternatives from the oral route for pediatrics, geriatric, bedridden, nauseous, or noncompliant patients . Novel bioadhesive mucosal dosag... |
Previous studies have reported that the correlation of ics and ischemic stroke is more prominent in asians; in contrast, extracranial carotid stenosis (ecs) is more prevalent in whites.1, 2, 3 ics is thought to be the cause of 33% to 84% of ischemic strokes in asian populations4 and 8% to 10% of strokes in north americ... |
Prostate cancer (pca) is one of the most commonly diagnosed malignancies in men and accounts for a major proportion in cancer deaths . Though known to be more prevalent in western countries, migrant population data show lifestyle and environment to be contributing risk factors . With westernized behavior changes, the u... |
Fibrous dysplasia (fd) is a condition characterized by the presence of fibro - osseous tissue in the bone leading to widening and thinning of its cortex . Fibrous dysplasia has a wide clinical spectrum, with substantial variation between patients in terms of orthopaedic manifestations, including the number of fractures... |
Cytosine-5 methylation (mc) is a common epigenetic modification found in dna with important regulatory roles in transcription (suzuki and bird, 2008). The cellular and molecular functions of mc - modified nucleobases in rna, however, remain largely unknown . Dnmt2 and nsun2 are currently the only known mc rna methyltra... |
Repetitive sequences, such as trinucleotide repeats (tnrs), are spread all over the genome and can be found in intergenic regions, 5 regulatory regions, promoters, introns, or exons . Such sequences are particularly prone to mutate, and their rate of mutation can be several orders of magnitude higher than that of bulk ... |
Proton therapy has currently used to treat brain, spinal and prostate cancers, as well as breast cancer . Proponents have cited the modality s ability to spare healthy tissue, but critics have claimed the benefit gained from its use has not validated its cost in comparison with photon therapy . The aim of this study wa... |
An 84-year - old woman was referred to our ocular oncology service with a suspected diagnosis of choroidal melanoma in her left eye . Upon examination in our clinic, the visual acuity in her right eye was 0.7 and in the left eye, hand movements . The left eye was pseudophakic, and an elevated pigmented tumor with overl... |
Poliomyelitis is caused by poliovirus (pv), which can affect the nervous system causing permanent paralysis . Pv is an rna virus that belongs to the genus enterovirus of the large family of picornaviridae . There are three serotypes of pv (i.e., pv-1, pv-2, and pv-3). Two trivalent polio vaccines have been available si... |
Determining the end of a life is important because it should be specified that what would be lost, according to which death would be determined . Brain death includes approximately 1% of the total deaths all over the world, and implies the loss of all functions of the brain that is caused after a complete cessation of ... |
In this study, influenza virus strains of different pathogenicity were isolated from central people s republic of china during the same outbreak . Distinctive from most other studies, our work may lead to a more detailed understanding of the complexity of the genetic and biologic variations among avian influenza (h5n1)... |
Not many studies have examined the risk of emergency medical attendance during stressful life events or special days . A literature search found no such studies looking at association of birthdays and emergency department attendances . Birthdays have been implicated in vascular events, associated with higher suicide ra... |
Some deep - sea squid are rarely encountered, and the biology of many species remains poorly understood . Observations of live specimens are even rarer, and the examination of dead animals, whether washed ashore, caught by fishing gear or retrieved from stomachs of large predators, remains an important source of biolog... |
Astroglia have been acknowledged to play a role in brain responses to stress and glucocorticoids as its chemical mediators [1, 2]. Such effects implicate brain plasticity and can lead to regional brain remodelling, with volume changes observed within the limbic system in cases of long - term toxic stress, and depressio... |
Approximately 8085% of the adult population has experienced or suffers from lower back pain, which results in difficulty while walking and turning in bed1 . In physical therapy in clinical settings, measures to alleviate pain frequently include manipulative physiotherapy in addition to physiotherapy and guidance for ev... |
Iron oxide nanoparticles and their composites have received increasing attention for their promising biomedical applications [1 - 7]., nanoscale iron oxide nanoparticles have been applied as light scattering labels and luminescent optical markers [1 - 3] because of their potential applications as contrasting materials ... |
Breast lesions are assessed nowadays using the well known bi - rads categories and the more recently instated tsukuba ultrasound elasticity score . The bi - rads acronym stands for breast imaging - reporting and data system which is a widely accepted risk assessment and quality assurance tool in mammography, ultrasound... |
A network consists at minimum of a dv source, such as a digital camcorder, or digital video converter box, and several computers connected with firewire cables . Firewire is a trademark term for the ieee1394 standard for this form of communication between computers and/or peripherals such as hard drives and video camer... |
The purpose of this article is twofold . In the first part (sections 24), the construction we present is not new; similar constructions can already be found in the literature . However, the justification of their validity is usually kept brief or more abstract than necessary . We have found it instructive to formulate ... |
According to the statistics of the world health organization in 2014, the per capita medical expenditure of all countries showed a significant growth trend in the past 10 years . From 2000 to 2011, the per capita consumption of medical consumption of the united states increased by 96.30%, the united kingdom 92.50%, jap... |
In healthy normal glucose - tolerant individuals, the kidney filters 180 g (fpg 100 mg / dl 180 l / day) of glucose daily . All of the filtered glucose is reabsorbed by the kidney in the proximal tubule and returned to the circulation (fig . Two sglts are responsible for the glucose reabsorption in the proximal tubule:... |
Heart disease is one of the most common developmental abnormalities among children, affecting approximately 6 per 1,000 live births . Dental management of children with congenital heart disease (chd) requires special attention, because of their increased susceptibility to infectious endocarditis, associated with bacter... |
The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s11060 - 009 - 9994 - 1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users . . Often attainment of this goal is complicated by factors such as tumor location, extent of dural attachments, and the complexity of tumor blood supply . Falcine meningiomas... |
States are enrolling medicaid beneficiaries into various forms of managed care for basic medical benefits . Medicaid managed care enrollment increased by 140 percent from 1993 to 1995 (mcguire, 1996). Only two states have no operational medicaid managed care plan or have no plans to implement one (hegner, 1995). All bu... |
Data from epidemiological studies suggest a link between the symptoms of lower urinary tract (luts) caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia (bph) and erectile dysfunction (ed) in older men, regardless of the impact of age, co - morbidity or differences in lifestyle (1). According to the mmas study, 90% percent of respon... |
Degenerative disorders of the musculoskeletal system are characterized by high occurrence, and affects both large and small animals (butt 2002; mohammed et al . 2007). To overcome this issue, treatment options mainly involve the utilization of two classes of drugs; non - steroidal anti - inflammatory drugs (nsaids), an... |
Stimulation of the vestibular system with air - conducted sound activates predominantly saccular afferents, wu and young, curthoys et al ., and wang et al . . The auditory sensitivity of the saccule (vestibular hearing) has been demonstrated in amphibians, birds, mammals, and among human, curthoys et al ., the frequenc... |
Melting points were measured in open capillaries on thomas - hoover melting point apparatus and are uncorrected . Infrared spectra were recorded on the abb - bomem fourier transform infrared (ft - ir) spectrometer mb 104 . Mass spectra were recorded on jeol gcmate. Elemental analysis was performed on the perkin - eleme... |
This anesthesia - controlled time interval is largely under the control of the anesthetist . Given the transition to competency - based assessments by the accreditation council for graduate medical education (acgme) through the milestones project, reliable outcome metrics are necessary to assess anesthesia trainee prof... |
The symptoms of spontaneous pneumothorax, including dyspnea, cyanosis, and anxiety, were first described by itard in 1803 . In 1941, tyson and crandall proposed open thoracotomy with pleural abrasion as a treatment for this condition [14]. Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (psp) is diagnosed when clinical methods of exa... |
The use of complementary and alternative medicine (cam) has been increasing among patients worldwide . The objective of this study was to assess cam use and its related factors among iranian dermatologic outpatients in shiraz, iran . This cross - sectional study was conducted in shiraz, iran . Six hundred dermatologic ... |
Percutaneous vertebroplasty (pvp) is a minimally invasive procedure for painful osteoporotic compression fractures, which has been first described in 198712). Pro- cedure involves percutaneous injection of bone cement, which is generally polymethylmethacrylate (pmma). Pvp is used for relieving pain of bone fracture, ma... |
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