The management of otitis extern ...
Acute otitis externa is common and provides a heavy workload for general practitioners. We aim to determine the first-line treatment used by general ...
Computed tomography and magneti ...
The aim of our prospective study is to illustrate the role of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis and del ...
An explanation for the worsened ...
Over 25 years ago Francis reported an association between blood transfusion and worsened cancer prognosis. Subsequently there has been much debate o ...
Association of PPAR polymorphis ...
Our aim was to study the association of Pro12Ala and exon6 C161T polymorphisms of PPARgamma and intron7 G/C polymorphisms of PPAR-alpha with clinic ...
Metabolic parameters in the sho ...
The presence of the metabolic syndrome is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The short- and long-term metabolic safet ...
Combining the categorical and t ...
We introduce a diagnostic map that was calculated by robust non-metric multidimensional scaling based on AMDP symptom profiles of patients with sch ...
An epidemiologic and clinical o ...
The presence of comorbidity in major psychoses (e.g., schizophrenia and psychotic subtypes of bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder) seems ...
Neuropsychological endophenotyp ...
As a relatively large body of research has been published up to now, it may be informative to explore whether the use of endophenotypes has produced ...
The role of child and parental ...
The current study aimed to investigate the role of parental and child mentalizing in the development of conduct problems over time in a community sa ...
Association between domains of ...
Few studies have investigated the independent effects of domain-specific physical activity on mortality. We sought to investigate the association of ...
Risk factors for type 2 diabete ...
Many incident cases of type 2 diabetes do not fulfil the metabolic syndrome, which accordingly has been questioned both as a research and clinical t ...
Mortality after myocardial infa ...
We have shown previously that smoking causes a first myocardial infarction (MI) to occur significantly more prematurely in women than in men. The ai ...
Depression in Swedish women: re ...
Depression is a common and serious disorder that may have developmental origins. Birth-related factors have been related to childhood and adult occu ...
Long proximal femoral nails ver ...
The objective of this study is to compare the results of the Long Proximal Femoral Nail versus Short Proximal Femoral Nail in the management of prox ...
A regional survey of surgical s ...
Surgical site infection surveillance became mandatory for orthopaedic surgery in 1997 and is reported to the Health Protection Agency. The requireme ...
Update review and clinical pres ...
Paracoccygeal approach to the L5–S1 junction with transsacral instrumentation was described recently as an alternative method to transforaminal lumb ...
Bilateral anterior fracture-dis ...
Although bilateral anterior dislocation of the shoulders are not that much uncommon, but incidences of bilateral anterior fracture-dislocation shoul ...
Solitary diaphyseal exostosis o ...
Osteochondroma, the most common benign tumor, is very often diagnosed as an incidental finding on radiographs obtained for other purposes. The World ...
ModiWcation of Laurence’s stitc ...
Laurence’s stitch has previously been described for surgical wound closure. The technique describes a continuous horizontal mattress using an absorb ...
Tuberculosis of knee mimicking ...
A 25-year-old man presented with painful swollen right knee of 7 years duration. Conventional radiographs and magnetic resonance imaging demonstrate ...
Distal plate placement for dist ...
Purpose To investigate the influence of distal plate placement for distal radius fractures on risk of flexor tendon complications and wrist motion b ...
Displaced distal forearm fractu ...
Purpose Worldwide, many displaced distal forearm fractures in children are treated by closed reduction under local anesthesia and cast immobilizatio ...
Biplane double-supported screw ...
The present work introduces a method of screw fixation of femoral neck fractures in the presence of osteoporosis, according to an original concept o ...
Eponym Papillon–Lefevre syndrom ...
Papillon–Lefevre Syndrome (PLS) is a very rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by palmoplantar hyperkeratosis and severe early onset peri ...
Position paper—HPV and the prim ...
A large proportion of sexually active adults are infected with the human papillomaviruses (HPVs). Although largely asymptomatic, some types of HPVs ...