| selective effects of ect on hypothalamic-pituitary activity. | the hypothesis that ect produces selective effects on hypothalamic-pituitary activity was investigated by determining the effect of ect on pituitary hormone release in nine depressed patients. after ect there were massive and rapid increases in the plasma concentrations of nicotine- and oestrogen-stimulated neurophysin (nsn and esn), prolactin (prl) and adrenocorticotropin (acth), smaller increases in plasma luteinizing hormone (lh) and cortisol, a significant decrease in plasma growth hormone ( ... | 2010 | 3037582 |
| treatment of endometrial hyperplasia with cyproterone acetate histological and hormonal aspects. | a regime of cyproterone acetate (cpa) (300 mg/day by the oral route for 30 days) has been used in 10 post-menopausal women with endometrial hyperplasia (8 atypical and 2 adenomatous). androstenedione (a), estrone (e1), testosterone (t) and estradiol (e2) plasma levels were determined before and at the end of treatment. the regression of endometrial hyperplasia was ascertained histologically in all patients after 30 days of therapy. all steroids showed a significant decrease (p less than 0.05) as ... | 2010 | 2949483 |
| it's how you say it: physicians' vocal behavior. | the present study was designed to assess evaluations of physicians interacting with patients via the telephone. observers used ten adjective scales which resulted in three variables: empathic, dominant, and calm. thirty doctor-patient interactions were presented in two different communication modes: audio-only and typed transcript-only. as predicted, female listeners rated doctors as more empathic, dominant, and calm, and communication modes were significantly different with audio segments rated ... | 2010 | 2928816 |
| a program for in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer at the southern california fertility institute, inc. | | 2010 | 2932511 |
| congenital complete heart block in an infant with free plasma carnitine deficiency. | a newborn male presenting with congenital complete heart block was found to have low levels of free plasma carnitine. among the many complications of carnitine deficiency is a structural disruption of myocardial tissue. a deficiency of carnitine may be causally related to the presence of cardiac dysrhythmias in this patient on the basis of mechanical disturbance to the cardiac conducting system. | 2010 | 2920306 |
| [the other heparin cofactor]. | | 2010 | 2950443 |
| use of laboratories owned by nonphysicians. | | 2010 | 4407829 |
| management--supporting staff to patient care. solving staffing problems: a twelve-hour success story. | | 2010 | 2910731 |
| a comparison of skin preparation procedures for accessing implanted ports. | | 2010 | 2950340 |
| paradoxical effect of respiration on ventricular rate in atrial fibrillation. | 1. in 50 subjects with atrial fibrillation we have attempted to demonstrate variation of ventricular rate with respiration, as evidence of cardioregulatory reflex activity. 2. the electrocardiogram was recorded for 3 min during spontaneous respiration. the presence of respiratory variation of r-r intervals was analysed by multiple regression against a cosine function (cosinor analysis), making it possible to determine the phase of respiration when the intervals were longest. 3. variation in vent ... | 2010 | 2920528 |
| patterns and location of velopharyngeal valving problems: atypical findings on video nasopharyngoscopy. | patterns of velopharyngeal (vp) valving and the location of velopharyngeal gaps were investigated in 246 consecutive nasopharyngoscopy studies. the predominant pattern of closure was coronal (68 percent), followed by the circular (23 percent), circular with a passavant's ridge (5 percent), and sagittal (4 percent) patterns. gaps were found in 181 patients; in 121 they were considered typical (centrally located), in 28 they were in one of the lateral aspects of the valve, and in 32 they were attr ... | 2010 | 2917420 |
| the duty to warn about transfusion risks. | blood banks and transfusion services should anticipate that patients contracting transfusion-transmitted diseases will claim that these facilities have a duty to warn or notify patients of potential transfusion risks. although physicians treating patients must secure informed consent by describing significant risks and possible alternatives, precedent does not support extending informed consent requirements to the hospital or blood bank. nonetheless, efforts to find new sources of compensation m ... | 2010 | 2919960 |
| [horizontal laparotomy in biliary tract surgery]. | for operations on the biliary tract the transverse horizontal incision has the same advantages as the subcostal approach: strong abdominal wall, little influence on ventilation and wide access to the subhepatic region. but in addition, the abdominal wall nerves are preserved as much as possible, post-operative evisceration, it is occurs, can easily be repaired and subsequent surgery can be performed using the same route. | 2010 | 2934697 |
| [treatment methods of keloid and hypertrophic scar formation]. | hypertrophic scar and keloid are diagnoses based on clinical symptoms. hypertrophic scar is an unacceptably enlarged scar, within the boundaries of the original wound; whereas keloid is an unacceptably enlarged scar infiltrating the surrounding tissue. hypertrophic scar and keloid belong to the same category of diseases, characterized by increased collagen development. the treatments employed are compression, excision, corticosteroid injections and irradiation. new medical treatments affecting t ... | 2010 | 2916252 |
| putative role of adenohypophysis in the osmoregulation of tilapia larvae (oreochromis mossambicus; teleostei): an ultrastructure study. | ultrastructure of the secretory cells in the adenohypophysis of tilapia (oreochromis mossambicus) larvae hatched in fresh water or sea water was compared. adenohypophysis of newly hatched larvae of tilapia is a short columnar body attached to the ventral floor of the diencephalon. the adenohypophysis is at its early differentiation stage, i.e., various types of secretory cells are still undistinguishable. only part of the cells in the putative rostral pars distalis look like typical endocrine ce ... | 2010 | 2925074 |
| fine-needle aspiration of inguinal lymph nodes in gynecologic practice. | palpable inguinal lymph nodes are a common finding in gynecologic patients. assessment of such nodes is especially important in the clinical staging of pelvic cancers. to determine the accuracy, safety, and usefulness of fine-needle aspiration in this setting, we retrospectively reviewed pathologic and clinical data from 62 consecutive aspirates of inguinal lymph nodes in 48 gynecologic patients, of whom 42 had cancer. aspirates from 37 patients yielded diagnostic material. aspirated tumor cells ... | 2010 | 2911432 |
| comparison of airway pathologic lesions after high-frequency jet or conventional ventilation. | high-frequency jet ventilation in neonates has been associated with airway damage ranging from focal necrosis to complete airway obstruction with mucus and severe necrotizing tracheobronchitis. however, studies have lacked consistent criteria for assessment, and jet ventilation systems have varied widely. we compared autopsy and histopathologic findings in six neonates who died after prolonged jet ventilatory support with findings in six matched controls who died after receiving conventional ven ... | 2010 | 2916497 |
| plasma endotoxin: increased levels in neutropenic patients do not correlate with fever. | | 2010 | 2926168 |
| semirigid and malleable rod penile prostheses. | rod penile prosthesis implantation has a high functional success rate, and the devices have a low mechanical failure rate. the rods are easily implanted. transient problems, such as pain or penile edema lasting longer than 4 weeks, occur in 10 to 15 per cent of patients, and serious complications such as infection or prosthesis erosion occur in 1 to 5 per cent. | 2010 | 2916270 |
| [treatment tactics in fractures of the midfoot]. | metatarsal fractures can occur as isolated lesions in combination with injuries of the ipsilateral tarsus, or in chain injuries of the lower extremity, or within a polytrauma. the choice of surgical or conservative therapy depends significantly on localisation and dislocation of the fracture (especially the involvement of the metatarsus i or v), as well as on the extent of the primary or expected soft part damage. from 1974 to 1984, 137 patients with metatarsal fractures were treated as in patie ... | 2010 | 2879425 |
| vasovagal syncope? | | 2010 | 2869309 |
| coronary heart disease prevention. | | 2010 | 2903393 |
| fatal temazepam overdoses. | | 2010 | 2873474 |
| [regulation of gamma-glutamyltransferase activity and synthesis in animal tissues]. | | 2010 | 2876560 |
| changes in neurotransmitter release at a neuromuscular junction of the lobster caused by cannabinoids. | in vitro intracellular recording techniques were used on an excitatory neuromuscular junction of a walking-limb stretcher muscle of the lobster in order to define the synaptic pharmacology of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (thc), 11-hydroxy-thc and cannabidiol. delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and 11-hydroxy-thc, in relatively small concentrations, increased the amplitude of the excitatory junctional potential and the mean quantum content of a muscle fiber, whereas larger concentrations produced depre ... | 2010 | 2901683 |
| [changes in erythrocytes in malignant neoplasms]. | | 2010 | 2866483 |
| transfer of pre-embryos donated and fertilized in vivo to recipients given a steroid replacement therapy. | this study describes eleven procedures of non-surgical recovery of preimplantation conceptuses from the uteri of eight fertile donor women and the transfer of the recovered pre-embryos into the uteri of infertile recipients with primary ovarian failure, or with hypothalamic--pituitary failure. conjugated oestrogens and progesterone were administered to recipients as replacement steroids during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy, in order to produce a secretory endometrium allowing nidation and deve ... | 2010 | 2851614 |
| reduction of pituitary size by the somatostatin analogue sms 201-995 in a patient with an islet cell tumour secreting growth hormone releasing factor. | acromegaly is rarely caused by the ectopic secretion of growth hormone releasing factor (grf) from peripheral neuroendocrine tumours. we evaluated the ability of a recently developed somatostatin analogue (sms 201-995, sandoz) to reduce hormone levels and pituitary size in a young woman with acromegaly and zollinger-ellison syndrome secondary to a metastatic pancreatic islet cell tumour secreting grf and gastrin. gastrin, grf, and growth hormone (gh) levels declined dramatically following the in ... | 2010 | 2876570 |
| [prevention of the increase of exertional blood pressure in patients with borderline essential hypertension. comparative study of the effects of nifedipine and/or propranolol]. | | 2010 | 2876475 |
| [arterial hypertension in the aged]. | | 2010 | 2876472 |
| evaluation of the polychlorobiphenyl aroclor 1254 in an animal model of atherosclerosis. | | 2010 | 3132110 |
| [salazosulfapyridine or 5-aminosalicylic acid]. | | 2010 | 2885762 |
| [intraventricular thrombosis and systemic thromboembolism following acute myocardial infarction--retrospective study of 709 patients]. | | 2010 | 2876479 |
| incorporation and disappearance of oxygen-18 in lung from mice exposed to 1 ppm 18o3. | in this study, 18o3 was used as a tracer for inhaled ozone in mice. the amount of ozone-derived oxygen (odo) in the lungs was determined by measuring the amount of oxygen-18 in excess of the natural abundance level which remained covalently bound to organic constituents of lung following exposure to 1 ppm 18o3 for less than or equal to 60 min. the rate of disappearance of odo from the lungs was determined by quantifying the rate of decrease of oxygen-18 in excess of the natural abundance level i ... | 2010 | 2929022 |
| the value of laparoscopy in women with chronic pelvic pain and a "normal pelvis". | during the period january 1976--december 1982 laparoscopy was performed on 186 women complaining of pelvic pain of at least 6 months' duration. in all these cases, the routine pelvic examination and other medical and laboratory tests were negative. laparoscopy revealed pelvic pathology in only 8.2%: in the vast majority (91.8%) entirely normal pelvic organs were seen. evidence from the literature is compiling as to the psychogenic origin of most cases of chronic pelvic pain. recently, it has bee ... | 2010 | 2860038 |
| pattern-recognition echocardiography: problems in education for a rapidly growing profession. | | 2010 | 3078554 |
| metastasis of an occult gastric carcinoma suggesting growth of a prolactinoma during bromocriptine therapy: a case report with a review of the literature. | the treatment of a slowly growing invasive prolactinoma with bromocriptine for 8 months resulted in a substantial decrease in plasma prolactin levels despite rapid suprasellar tumor expansion. on exploration, this uncommon observation could be attributed to hematogenous metastasis from an occult gastric adenocarcinoma to the pituitary tumor. apart from infiltration of neighboring parts of the hypothalamus, autopsy revealed no other hematogenous metastases. this extraordinary type of neoplasm-to- ... | 2010 | 2989726 |
| lichen planus and lichen-planus-like reactions. | lichen planus is a common disorder affecting the skin, oral and genital epithelium, hair and nails. it is said to account for approximately 1% of new patient referrals to skin clinics (samman, 1979). it is, therefore, an important entity to the dermatologist. however, lichen planus and lichen-planus-like reactions have been described in a number of clinical situations which may bring them first to the attention of doctors practising in other specialties. | 2010 | 3768619 |
| pharmacists in motion pictures. | | 2010 | 3279765 |
| the origin of "natural antibodies" and the internal activity in the immune system. | | 2010 | 3073179 |
| the effect of urban trauma system hospital bypass on prehospital transport times and level 1 trauma patient survival. | we studied the influence of hospital bypass on prehospital times and level 1 trauma patient survival. during the nine-month study period, 251 level 1 trauma patients were transported to the cook county hospital trauma unit by chicago fire department (cfd) paramedics. the prehospital times and survival rates in the 203 (81%) patients who arrived with vital signs were analyzed. in this group, 64 (32%) had a hospital trauma score (ts) of 12 or less, 74 (39%) had at least one abbreviated injury scor ... | 2010 | 2817557 |
| long-term results of tibiotalar arthrodesis. | one hundred and one tibiotalar arthrodeses were performed using a single surgical technique that has not been previously reported. the average follow-up was ten years (range, two to twenty-five years). the rate of pseudarthrosis was 5 per cent, four to five times less than in other recent large reports. pseudarthrosis occurred only in patients with a sensory deficit. secure fusion was radiographically documented in 95 per cent and the functional clinical result was good to excellent in 90 per ce ... | 2010 | 3980499 |
| hypothermia and circulatory arrest in aneurysm surgery. | | 2010 | 2809737 |
| a possible pain control system in a non-mammalian vertebrate (a lizard, gekko gecko). | in a lizard (gekko gecko) the anterograde tracer pha-l was microiontophoretically applied to the predominantly serotonergic nucleus raphes inferior. extensive spinal projections from the rostral magnocellular part of this nucleus were demonstrated to the superficial layers of the dorsal horn and to the intermediate zone, more sparsely to the ventral horn. but, in addition, retrogradely labeled neurons were found in and just below a periventricular cell group in tegmentum mesencephali, i.e. the l ... | 2010 | 2831478 |
| [current data on insulin secretion and its regulation]. | glucose is the main stimulator and physiological regulator of insulin secretion. the great sensitivity of the b cell to glucose variations between 1 g/l (5.5 mm) and 3 g/l (16.6 mm) and its rapid response ensure the constant adaptation of its secretion to plasma glucose level. the cellular mechanisms involved in insulin response can be schematically represented in three stages: the first stage is the recognition of the insulinotropic agent. in the case of glucose, this involves its metabolism. t ... | 2010 | 2881028 |
| age-related morphologic differences in the components of the eustachian tube/middle ear system. | the current study utilized a three-dimensional computer graphics technique to analyze the size, shape, and positional associations of the eustachian tube (et) cartilage and lumen, the levator veli palatini (lvp) muscle, and the tensor veli palatini (tvp) muscle. older specimens 7 years and above (n = 13) were compared to young specimens less than 7 years (n = 4). our results suggest that changes in et function associated with age could result from size and shape differences in the et cartilage a ... | 2010 | 2817675 |
| [diagnosis of endogenous puerperal psychoses with reference to suicidal and forensic complications]. | | 2010 | 3564551 |
| [growth profile of children attending a supplementary food program]. | | 2010 | 3249909 |
| [professionals in health areas: knowledge of the documentation terminology]. | | 2010 | 3249908 |
| [perception of teachers in the educational system of the state of são paulo on their training in the health of school children]. | | 2010 | 3249907 |
| evaluation of three cervical cancer detection programs in japan with special reference to cost-benefit analysis. | three screening programs for early cervical cancer currently in use in japan were evaluated according to the following criteria: (1) economic effectiveness; (2) screening efficiency; and (3) access to medical care. the mobile program has the highest benefit-cost ratio (bcr, 1.20) and is hence most cost-effective; its detection rate, rescreening rate, and early cancer detection rate (proportion of stage-o patients to all patients with cancer) are moderately high (0.09%, 2.07%, 55%, respectively). ... | 2011 | 3921230 |
| rapidly expanding pigmented lesion of the buccal mucosa. | a case of oral melanoacanthoma was presented. the differential diagnosis of pigmented lesions of the oral mucous membrane includes a wide variety of categories of disease including local and systemic manifestations of hereditary and developmental conditions, reactive and inflammatory lesions, neoplasms, and metabolic diseases. for some of these lesions the histopathological pattern is diagnostic; for others, the tissue structure and organization are nonspecific and intelligent evaluation require ... | 2011 | 3254175 |
| rapidly expanding pigmented lesion of the buccal mucosa. | a case of oral melanoacanthoma was presented. the differential diagnosis of pigmented lesions of the oral mucous membrane includes a wide variety of categories of disease including local and systemic manifestations of hereditary and developmental conditions, reactive and inflammatory lesions, neoplasms, and metabolic diseases. for some of these lesions the histopathological pattern is diagnostic; for others, the tissue structure and organization are nonspecific and intelligent evaluation require ... | 2011 | 3254175 |
| [characteristics of the use of bone screws in pseudarthroses of the carpal scaphoid]. | | 2011 | 3253841 |
| [characteristics of the use of bone screws in pseudarthroses of the carpal scaphoid]. | | 2011 | 3253841 |
| arthroplasty of the knee in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. a follow-up study after implantation of the mckeever and macintosh prostheses. | | 2011 | 5054449 |
| catastrophic weight loss after vertical banded gastroplasty: malnutrition and neurologic alterations. | the case of a patient with severe vomiting and very rapid weight loss following vertical banded gastroplasty (vbg) (almost 50% of original weight in 11 months) and who suffered severe neurological and nutritional disorders is reported. all abnormal findings with the exception of nystagmus, disappeared during enteral nutritional support with a complete diet and vitamin supplementation. the alterations found in this case may have been related to the very rapid weight loss, which resulted in protei ... | 2011 | 3230620 |
| [persistence of nonspecific bronchial hyperreactivity in children with non-ige dependent bronchial asthma: pharmacologic study with the carbachol test]. | the authors revise their preliminary experiment with the bronchial provocation test using carbachol in 50 children of 5 to 14 years with non-ige dependent bronchial asthma who had been asymptomatic for one year prior to the test in order to make a clinical evaluation of asthma. the observe the evolution of the non-specific bronchial hyperreactivity (nsbh) with respect to the clinical remission and determine whether the persistence of nsbh is correlated to certain clinical, epidemiological and an ... | 2011 | 3232897 |
| spectrofluorimetric determination of n-nitroso-n-methylurea with sodium sulphide, taurine and o-phthalaldehyde. | | 2011 | 3232821 |
| hemobilia due to ruptured hepatic artery aneurysm. | | 2011 | 3235180 |
| effects of two methods of preoxygenation on mean arterial pressure, cardiac output, peak airway pressure, and postsuctioning hypoxemia. | our purpose was to determine which method of preoxygenation (ventilator versus manual resuscitation bag [mrb]) produced minimal changes in mean arterial pressure (map), cardiac output (co), and peak airway pressure and prevented postsuctioning hypoxemia in patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. three lung inflation breaths at f10(2) 1.0 were delivered at 12 and 14 cc/kg of lean body weight via ventilator or mrb, followed by 10 seconds of continuous endotracheal suctioning. this seq ... | 2011 | 3259214 |
| effects of two methods of preoxygenation on mean arterial pressure, cardiac output, peak airway pressure, and postsuctioning hypoxemia. | our purpose was to determine which method of preoxygenation (ventilator versus manual resuscitation bag [mrb]) produced minimal changes in mean arterial pressure (map), cardiac output (co), and peak airway pressure and prevented postsuctioning hypoxemia in patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. three lung inflation breaths at f10(2) 1.0 were delivered at 12 and 14 cc/kg of lean body weight via ventilator or mrb, followed by 10 seconds of continuous endotracheal suctioning. this seq ... | 2011 | 3259214 |
| late appearance of a radiodense lesion at the site of an irradiated metastasis: neuropathological findings. | the appearance of contrast-enhancing computed tomographic (ct) lesions at the site of an irradiated brain tumor often has sinister implications. we present the case of a 43-year-old woman who received cranial irradiation as treatment for cerebral metastases from lung cancer. follow-up radiographic studies revealed complete tumor regression; however, 26 months after treatment, enhanced ct scanning showed a radiodense nodule at the site of one of the previous metastatic deposits. neuropathological ... | 2011 | 3216982 |
| [the anti-insulin receptor antibody syndrome]. | | 2011 | 3785115 |
| [results of conservative treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip--significance of arthrography]. | to evaluate the clinical value of hip arthrography, especially two-directional arthrography, the author compared the treatment results of three different groups, group a: cases treated without arthrography, group b: cases treated using anteroposterior arthrography and group c: cases treated using two-directional arthrography. with lorenz's method, all three groups achieved about 40% success to g-i, ii by severin's classification. g-iii, iv was obtained in group a, b and c at 50.4%, 19.5% and 2.8 ... | 2011 | 3249093 |
| [results of conservative treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip--significance of arthrography]. | to evaluate the clinical value of hip arthrography, especially two-directional arthrography, the author compared the treatment results of three different groups, group a: cases treated without arthrography, group b: cases treated using anteroposterior arthrography and group c: cases treated using two-directional arthrography. with lorenz's method, all three groups achieved about 40% success to g-i, ii by severin's classification. g-iii, iv was obtained in group a, b and c at 50.4%, 19.5% and 2.8 ... | 2011 | 3249093 |
| [the substance-dependent patient, his social environment and the responsibility of counseling agencies]. | | 2011 | 3213128 |
| [status quo in lipid diagnosis from the internal medicine viewpoint. discussion of the contribution of the same title by w. reuter in z. gesamte inn. med. 43 (1988) 71-74]. | | 2011 | 3213119 |
| [selected statistical measurement values]. | | 2011 | 3213081 |
| "isn't it about time somebody did something about it?". | | 2011 | 3226678 |
| [effect of methotrexate and actinomycin d on the frequency and ratio of early mitotic cells]. | different methods for obtaining early mitotic chromosomes have been comparatively analyzed. lymphocyte cultures have been treated with methotrexate, actinomycin-d and with a combination of both agents. it is shown that a high rate of chromosomes in prophase, prometaphase and mid-metaphase can be achieved by the combined methotrexate and actinomycin-d treatment of the lymphocyte culture. methotrexate treatment of cultures is preferable to obtain the great number of early metaphase chromosomes. | 2011 | 3590308 |
| [immediate and severe epistaxis caused by traumatic rupture of the carotid siphon. apropos of a case treated by intravascular approach]. | the authors report a recent case of massive and immediate epistaxis resulting from a rupture of the internal intracavernous carotid artery caused by closed head injury. the point out the unusualness and the extreme severity of such lesions. the pathogenesis of these epistaxis can be explained by an immediate arterial rupture proceeding from a sphenoidal fracture. the emergency bilateral carotid angiography states precisely the diagnosis and the level of the rupture, allowing in the same time the ... | 2011 | 3287200 |
| [immediate and severe epistaxis caused by traumatic rupture of the carotid siphon. apropos of a case treated by intravascular approach]. | the authors report a recent case of massive and immediate epistaxis resulting from a rupture of the internal intracavernous carotid artery caused by closed head injury. the point out the unusualness and the extreme severity of such lesions. the pathogenesis of these epistaxis can be explained by an immediate arterial rupture proceeding from a sphenoidal fracture. the emergency bilateral carotid angiography states precisely the diagnosis and the level of the rupture, allowing in the same time the ... | 2011 | 3287200 |
| current approaches to drug treatment of ventricular arrhythmias. | ventricular arrhythmias are common and cause serious problems, ranging from symptom aggravation to sudden cardiac death. new knowledge about arrhythmias and new antiarrhythmic drugs provide greater opportunities for treatment choice and evaluations. a prognostic classification of ventricular arrhythmias helps to focus management. for benign ventricular arrhythmias, the objective of drug treatment is alleviation. the best management approach to potentially malignant ventricular arrhythmias, howev ... | 2011 | 3310580 |
| hypertension and coronary risk: possible adverse effects of antihypertensive drugs. | | 2011 | 3310571 |
| [standardization of bronchial provocation tests using histamine]. | | 2011 | 3218107 |
| [the sex factor in the prognosis of stage i skin melanoma. a preliminary note]. | | 2011 | 3209240 |
| a model for implementing aids education in a drug abuse treatment setting. | | 2011 | 3209208 |
| national trends in use of psychotherapy in psychiatric inpatient settings. | the use of individual, family, and group psychotherapy at a national sample of state and county mental hospitals, private psychiatric hospitals, and psychiatric services in nonfederal general hospitals in 1975 and in 1980 or 1981 was studied. patients with organic or alcohol-related disorders were generally less likely to receive psychotherapy than were those with schizophrenia. patients' educational level, gender, or race did not appear to influence the use of psychotherapy, but older patients ... | 2011 | 3209199 |
| ultrastructure of the sperm and spermatogenesis and spermiogenesis of dina lineata (hirudinea, erpobdellidae). | the mature sperm of dina lineata is of the modified type. the sperm are 48 micron long and 0.3 micron wide. the sperm are filiform and helicoidal cells with a distinct head, a midpiece, and a tail. there are two distinct regions in the head: the acrosome and the posterior acrosome, each with its own characteristic morphology. the midpiece is the mitochondrial region and has a single mitochondrion. two distinct portions can be observed in the tail: the axonematic region and the terminal piece. in ... | 2011 | 3209181 |
| [esophagectomy via a right-sided thoracic approach. role of the circulating nurse]. | | 2011 | 3206015 |
| effect of synthetic thrombin inhibitor (md805) as an alternative drug on heparin induced thrombocytopenia during hemodialysis. | | 2011 | 3194891 |
| [possible mechanism of the alteration in the therapeutic action of cyclophosphane in mice with hemocytoblastosis la against a background of artificial hyperglycemia]. | the concentration of reactive cyclophosphamide metabolites (cp) and the time of their circulation in blood plasma of mice increase during artificial hyperglycemia (hg). intensification of the antitumor cp activity against a background of hg in c57bl/6 mice with hemocytoblastosis la may be a result of changes in the drug pharmacokinetics. an inhibitory action of hg on the cp-metabolizing system of the liver monooxygenases is shown. | 2011 | 3181078 |
| the flagellar apparatus of spermatozoa in fish. ultrastructure and evolution. | chondrichthyes possess an evolved type of spermatozoa. their flagellar apparatus is characterized by the presence of flagellar roots which form the axis of the midpiece, and the existence of one or two lateral elements associated with the axoneme. osteichthyes, mainly teleosteans, show a great diversity of spermatic forms. the primitive spermatozoon with a 9 + 2 pattern flagellum is common. the primitive spermatozoon has evolved along different lines. the spermatic diversity which results from t ... | 2011 | 3203155 |
| [local treatment of chronic juvenile arthritis]. | | 2011 | 3202590 |
| on the poor legibility of the captions in musea. | in the museum world, designers in general hardly take into account the legitimate wishes of elderly visitors, whose visual acuity is often less than optimal, with regard to the legibility of the captions by paintings or in show-cases. the conditions necessary for letter and word recognition, the influence of illumination, contrast and colour are discussed. test-cards for use in musea, and the recruiting of a representative test-group of senior citizens, are recommended. | 2011 | 3234194 |
| family-school context: parent and teacher agreement on child temperament. | | 2011 | 3198815 |
| non-steroidal anti-inflammatory nephrotoxicity. | non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have a wide range of use in clinical practice because of their analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. however, their potential nephrotoxicity has been noted. the case histories were studied, retrospectively, in 13 patients who were taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as follows: four on fenoprofen (nalfon), three on naproxen (naprosyn), two on ibuprofen (motrin), two on sulindac (clinoril), one on tolmetin (tolectin), and one on indomethacin (i ... | 2011 | 3291741 |
| non-steroidal anti-inflammatory nephrotoxicity. | non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have a wide range of use in clinical practice because of their analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. however, their potential nephrotoxicity has been noted. the case histories were studied, retrospectively, in 13 patients who were taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as follows: four on fenoprofen (nalfon), three on naproxen (naprosyn), two on ibuprofen (motrin), two on sulindac (clinoril), one on tolmetin (tolectin), and one on indomethacin (i ... | 2011 | 3291741 |
| a rapid method of grading cataract in epidemiological studies and eye surveys. | a rapid method of grading clinically important central lens opacities has been developed for use in eye surveys and in epidemiological studies of cataract and has been field-tested in a specifically designed observer agreement study in a survey of a rural community in central india. the grading method is based on simple measurement of the area of lens opacity that obscures the red reflex relative to the area of clear red reflex, as visualised through the undilated normal pupil. good to almost pe ... | 2011 | 3207653 |
| [recidivism in alcohol offenders--follow-up of remedial traffic education]. | | 2011 | 3442608 |
| [a combination of an accessory large intestine and teratoid cysts of the intrapelvic tissue]. | | 2011 | 3210612 |
| vitamin a supplementation and growth: a randomized community trial. | a randomized community trial was carried out in aceh, indonesia, 1982-1984, to assess the impact of semiannual vitamin a (va) supplementation (60,000 micrograms re) on preschool child growth: 229 villages were randomized to va program and 221 to control status. one thousand thirty-two program and 980 control children aged 1-5 y were assessed and followed for 12 mo. va program males gained an additional approximately 110 g weight at age 2-3 y (ns), 190 g at age 4 y (p less than 0.05), and 263 g a ... | 2011 | 3189214 |
| "the open sky rhinoplasty" for correction of secondary cleft lip nose deformity, technique and recent results. | the typical nose deformity after cleft-lip repair still represents great challenge for the plastic surgeon in this field. many methods have been designed in attempts to correct the deformity, either during primary closure of the lip or as a secondary procedure when growth of the nose is complete. in this paper the author's own technique of secondary rhinoseptoplasty in cleft-lip patients is presented. the different cartilaginous and osseous structures are approached through a transcolumellar inc ... | 2011 | 3187450 |
| helping the deaf in kenya. | | 2011 | 3187393 |
| [transient one-sided blindness]. | | 2011 | 3187278 |
| karyological studies in coris julis (pisces, labridae). | in the present investigation the diploid number 2n = 48 (nf = 58) has been determined for females, primary males, and secondary males of coris julis from the gulf of palermo. differentiated sex chromosomes have not been observed in the population under study. | 2011 | 3234765 |
| [new aspects of vitamin k prophylaxis in newborn infants and infants]. | discussion about vitamin k prophylaxis has again become a matter of major concern since cases of life threatening bleeding due to late onset vitamin k deficiency have been observed in germany. this review tries to summarize present knowledge about the clinical presentation, pathogenesis and the potential prevention of vitamin k deficiency caused bleeding in the neonatal period and infancy. | 2011 | 3785234 |
| transabdominal chorionic villi sampling. | | 2011 | 3743078 |
| transabdominal chorionic villi sampling. | | 2011 | 3743078 |