Management of Common Bile Duct ...
Background and Study Aims Bleeding is not uncommon following endoscopic sphincterotomy. Supra-papillary puncture (SPP) might be safer than standard ...
Gastric pneumatosis: the role o ...
Gastric pneumatosis is rare, with causes ranging from benign to lethal. The purpose of this pictorial essay is to present a series of cases of gastr ...
The effects of uncinectomy and ...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of uncinectomy without sinusotomy and natural ostial dilatation on maxillary sinus ventilation ...
A morphometric analysis of the ...
The septal nuclei are assumed to play a significant role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and affective disorders. The aim of this study was ...
Ochronosis masquerading as pigm ...
Alkaptonuria is an autosomal recessive disorder of tyrosine metabolism with a Mendelian pattern of inheritance. We present a unique, clinically asym ...
4q34.1–q35.2 deletion in a boy ...
Small terminal or interstitial deletions involving bands 4q34 and 4q35 have been described in several patients with a relatively mild phenotype such ...
Treatment of the displaced femo ...
Purpose Opinions about the optimal treatment of displaced femoral neck fractures in the elderly are still divided. The two main options are internal ...
Optimising diffusion weighted M ...
Objectives To establish normal bone marrow values of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) over an age range, compare them with metastatic and myelom ...
Idiopathic scoliosis in Korean ...
Cross-sectional epidemiologic scoliosis screening was carried out to determine the current prevalence of scoliosis in the Korean population and to c ...
Thoracoscopic resection of a th ...
29-year-old man had been diagnosed with an anterior mediastinal cyst 6 years earlier and was undergoing follow-up. At a follow-up visit, a newly de ...
Restoration of the photorecepto ...
Background To evaluate the prognostic value of foveal microstructures as determined using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) in e ...
Cellular and molecular pathways ...
Fibrosis is a fundamental component of the adverse structural remodeling of myocardium present in the failing heart. Replacement fibrosis appears at ...
Terminology for Achilles tendon ...
The terminology of Achilles tendon pathology has become inconsistent and confusing throughout the years. For proper research, assessment and treatme ...
Ultra-low-level laser therapy
A growing number of laboratory and clinical studies over the past 10 years have shown that low-level laser stimulation (633 or 670 nm) at extremely ...
Outcome in Patients with H1N1 I ...
Background Although intracranial hemorrhage and infarction have been reported in patients with H1N1 influenza infection treated with extracorporeal ...
Serial nerve conduction studies ...
polyneuropathy secondary to vitamin B12 deficiency. He presented with weakness and numbness of the distal limbs and absent deep tendon reflex in all ...
Evaluation of Salivary Gland Dy ...
Purpose Salivary gland scintigraphy (SGS) provides an objective means of diagnosing salivary gland dysfunction in Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) patients a ...
Metabolic Laparoscopic Gastric ...
Background Bariatric surgery has been proposed as the most effective treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and body mass index ...
Efficacy, side effects and rout ...
The purposes of the study were to review available published literature on magnitude of non-adherence with osteoporosis regimens and to determine th ...
Bone and bone marrow pro-osteoc ...
Summary This study evaluates cytokines production in bone and bone marrow of patients with an osteoporotic fracture or with osteoarthritis by real t ...
Cardiomyopathy of Friedreich’s ...
Friedreich’s ataxia is a multisystem disorder of mitochondrial function affecting primarily the heart and brain. Patients experience a severe cardio ...
Isoprostane levels in urine of ...
Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is the most common cardiovascular abnormality of the preterm infant usually treated with ibuprofen (IBU). PDA is stri ...
Accuracy of CT-guided percutane ...
Background CT-guided percutaneous core needle biopsy has been shown in adults to be an effective diagnostic tool for a large number of musculoskelet ...
Clustering Algorithms: On Learn ...
The development of microarray technology has enabled scientists to measure the expression of thousands of genes simultaneously, resulting in a surge ...
The Human Embryonic Stem Cells ...
The establishment of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines in 1998 served to set the pace for understanding the molecular biology behind the two hal ...