Lipid Storage Myopathy
Lipid storage myopathy (LSM) is pathologically characterized by prominent lipid accumulation in muscle fibers due to lipid dysmetabolism. Although e ...
Quality of Evidence to Compare ...
Robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) has gained widespread acceptance in the treatment of prostate cancer. While it increasingly ...
Development and Validation of a ...
Background/Aims Treating a group of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected patients with high viral load and advanced fibrosis or cirrhosis, regar ...
Pharyngeal Pressures During Swa ...
No studies have investigated within-subject variation in measures of pharyngeal pressures during swallowing across sessions. This study aimed to doc ...
A computer-controlled olfactome ...
Odor identification tests are widely used for the general screening of olfactory function. However, the administration of odor identification tests ...
Severe subcutaneous and deep ce ...
Subcutaneous and deep cervical emphysema (SCE) in the head and neck are found in a wide spectrum of conditions. Most of them are seen in patients wi ...
Re-evaluating the lateral hip v ...
neck fractures remains debatable. In many institutions, lateral hip X-rays are routinely obtained on all suspected fractures. Studies exist question ...
Clinical and epidemiological ch ...
In June 2009, the first influenza pandemic of the twenty-first century, due to the swine origin influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus, was declared. This st ...
Versatility of perforator spari ...
Eleven perforator-sparing gluteal fasciocutaneous rotation flaps were used for coverage of pressure sores in 10 patients with mean age 38.4 years. N ...
Recent advances in medical phys ...
Some of the major interests in medical physics over the last few years have concerned the technical advances in Computed Tomography and high field M ...
A systematic review on the effe ...
Low back pain (LBP) is a common and disabling disorder in western society. The management of LBP comprises a range of different intervention strateg ...
Surgical left ventricular recon ...
Because of the shortage of donors for heart transplantation, surgical ventricular reconstruction (SVR) has been under development to treat end-stage ...
Bilateral uveal melanoma in an ...
Purpose To report sequential bilateral uveal melanoma in an arc welder. Methods Case report. Results A 57-year-old Caucasian male, with a 15-year ...
Association between deteriorate ...
Acute renal insufficiency after percutaneous coronary artery intervention (PCI) is a strong predictor of adverse events. However, the effect of chro ...
Myositis ossificans as a compli ...
Post-traumatic myositis ossificans is a benign condition of heterotopic ossification of unknown aetiology which typically is related to trauma from ...
Shear bond strength of bonding ...
The aim of this study was to investigate the shear bond strength of bonding to enamel following laser etching with the Er:YAG or Er,Cr:YSGG laser us ...
Prognostic significance of telo ...
The prognosis of non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has remained disappointing over the last decades even in localized stages. Numerous prognostic f ...
How parkinsonism influences lif ...
a survey form was sent to the members of a patients’ association; 1,256 forms were analysed. The mean age was 65.75 ± 9.29 years; 64.4% males. A fam ...
An in vitro study of silk stent ...
Introduction Morphology of the Silk stent (Balt, Montmorency, France) after deployment is not fully understood, especially in tortuous vessels. An i ...
Dietary Protein Intake and Bari ...
Bariatric surgery, a highly successful treatment for obesity, requires adherence to special dietary recommendations to insure the achievement of wei ...
Mylohyoid muscle defects: compa ...
Objectives To investigate whether CT images reflect the anatomical condition of mylohyoid muscle defects by confirmation with subsequent dissection ...
Clinical risk factor assessment ...
Summary This study evaluated the characteristics of patients with vertebral fractures and examined the discriminative ability of clinical risk facto ...
The 30-Year Outcome for Patient ...
This study determined the long-term outcome for patients after myocardial infarction (MI) due to Kawasaki disease (KD). Retrospective analysis was p ...
Letter to the Editor regarding ...
This letter is in reference to the article by Di Cesare et al. [1], regarding the association of anorectal malformations (ARMs) and neurospinal dysr ...
Long-term renal function under ...
In a paper byWaters and Licht published recently in Pediatric Nephrology, eculizumab is presented as the emerging drug to replace plasma exchange (P ...