| cigarette smoking and down syndrome. | a matched case-control study of 100 mothers of down syndrome children, 100 mothers of children with other defects (defect controls), and 100 mothers of children with no defects (normal controls) was carried out. all infants were born in upstate new york in 1980 and 1981. matching was very close on maternal age for the normal controls but not for the defect controls. the risk ratios for the association of cigarette smoking around the time of conception with down syndrome was 0.58 (90% confidence ... | 2010 | 2934980 |
| [ultrasonics and directional doppler. study of superficial phlebitis of the lower extremities]. | the objective of the study was to evaluate the usefulness of ultrasonic methods: ultrasonography and doppler c.w. in the diagnosis of superficial varicose phlebitis. especially, measurement of the venous pressure (v.p.) at the posterior tibial (p.t.) and the greater saphenous vein (g.s.v.) in clino and orthostatism, have proved to be useful. in ten cases, one patient with a varicose in the thigh, was also found to have a femoral vein thrombosis secondary to a deep thrombus entering the junction. ... | 2011 | 3043475 |
| [conservative treatment of postoperative eventrations]. | | 2014 | 4068562 |
| [roentgenography with direct image magnification and roentgenopneumopolygraphy as accessory methods in the early diagnosis of pneumoconiosis]. | | 2014 | 4090250 |
| [results of the surgical treatment of cancers of the transverse colon. apropos of 43 cases]. | | 2015 | 4652093 |
| acedapsone in leprosy treatment: trial in 68 active cases in micronesia. | | 2015 | 4672994 |
| [impression materials in focus: silicones of the 3d generation]. | | 1994 | 284451 |
| hospitalization of the elderly patient for acute illness. | there is a paucity of studies on the characteristics of elderly patients who are admitted for treatment of acute disorders, even though their utilization of hospitals is high. this study involved 828 older persons admitted to a general hospital during a period of six months, for the treatment of acute illness. the typical patient appeared to be a woman in her 70's who entered the medical department because of a cardiovascular or a gastrointestinal disturbance, stayed no longer than 10 days, and ... | 1999 | 89134 |
| the search for indices. | | 2000 | 91795 |
| the influence of semantic and perceptual factors on lexical comprehension in aphasic and right brain-damaged patients. | we investigated whether the errors made by aphasic patients and right brain-damaged (rbd) patients on a word-picture matching test were differently related to the semantic and perceptual difficulties of the task. to this effect, the target picture was presented in one condition along with two semantically similar distractors, in another condition with two perceptually similar distractors, and in a third condition with two distractors that were both semantically and perceptually similar. there we ... | 2008 | 2612178 |
| the influence of semantic and perceptual factors on lexical comprehension in aphasic and right brain-damaged patients. | we investigated whether the errors made by aphasic patients and right brain-damaged (rbd) patients on a word-picture matching test were differently related to the semantic and perceptual difficulties of the task. to this effect, the target picture was presented in one condition along with two semantically similar distractors, in another condition with two perceptually similar distractors, and in a third condition with two distractors that were both semantically and perceptually similar. there we ... | 2008 | 2612178 |
| [evaluation of the effectiveness of cytoprotective drugs in the treatment of duodenal ulcer]. | | 2009 | 2697093 |
| ouabain-resistant mutants of chinese hamster ovary cells are not directly affected in na+, k+-atpase. | the nature of biochemical lesions in a number of independent single-step ouabain-resistant (ouar) mutants of chinese hamster ovary cells has been examined. the cellular uptake of 86rb in the mutant cells was found to be resistant to inhibition by ouabain and correlated with the degree of resistance of the mutants to the drug. however, the plasma membrane na+, k+-atpase from all five of the ouar mutants examined showed similar sensitivity to inhibition by ouabain as seen for the enzyme from the p ... | 2010 | 3016917 |
| characterization of dimethylnitrosamine-induced focal and nodular lesions in the livers of newborn mice. | newborn swiss-webster mice were given an intraperitoneal injection of 25 micrograms of dimethylnitrosamine. at weaning they began receiving 0.05% phenobarbital in the drinking water to promote the lesions for the term of the study. preneoplastic foci and hyperplastic nodules were identified histologically by two markers, resistance to exogenous iron accumulation and an increase in gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase activity. at 8, 12, and 16 weeks of age, livers of affected male mice exhibited 12, 18, ... | 2010 | 2863866 |
| rings, dicentrics, and telomeric association in histiocytomas. | we report clonal karyotypic abnormalities in six of 12 cytogenetically investigated malignant fibrous histiocytomas. four of eight tumors of the pleomorphic subtype had complex clonal chromosome aberrations, including ring chromosomes, dicentric chromosomes, and/or telomeric associations. no common characteristic aberration could be distinguished. two of four myxoid tumors had clonal changes: one had one to two ring chromosomes and an extra chromosome #2; another had a supernumerary ring chromos ... | 2010 | 2825965 |
| abdominal operations without nasogastric tube decompression of the gastrointestinal tract. | the routine use of nasogastric (ng) drainage during and after abdominal surgery was examined. one hundred and fifty patients who underwent various abdominal operations with a levine tube served as a control group (retrospective group). the tubeless study group (prospective group) of 150 patients was randomly and blindly divided into three equal subgroups. subgroup a patients were operated on without any ng tube. the tube in subgroup b patients was inserted after induction of anesthesia and remov ... | 2011 | 3190004 |
| prednisone-induced behavioral and biological changes in medically healthy volunteers. | | 2011 | 3153514 |
| [a case of recurrent epipharyngeal cancer showing complete disappearance following suppository administration of tegafur (sunfural rectal capsules)]. | a 55-year-old woman was diagnosed as having epipharyngeal cancer, characterized by t2n1m0 and poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. she was treated by radiotherapy (primary site: 65 gy, neck: 75 gy) and the tumor completely disappeared. however, 4 months later, the tumor recurred in the epipharynx. tegafur in the form of a suppository (sunfural rectal capsules, 750 mg) was given once a day. during the course of epipharyngoscopic follow-up the tumor almost totally disappeared at a dose o ... | 2011 | 3122667 |
| changes in caloric nystagmus induced by vasodilating drugs. | systemic blood flow, blood flow to the peripheral skin, middle ear, and temporal bone, and that to the inner ear of normal volunteers was manipulated selectively through the use of vasodilator drugs. the effect of selective vasodilation was monitored via changes in the temporal course of the slow-phase velocity of nystagmus evoked by bithermal caloric irrigation. drug influenced eye velocities were compared with control values measured before drug administration. eye velocities measured after ni ... | 2012 | 3485753 |
| [late results of organ-sparing surgical treatment of patients with balkan endemic nephropathy and tumors of the upper urinary tract]. | | 2012 | 3437707 |
| allergy: a leading role in otitis media with effusion. | we have studied 35 children with seasonal allergic rhinitis confirmed by positive skin tests and rast to grass pollen. intranasal antigen provocation was performed to evaluate the function of the eustachian tube (et) and middle ear pressure (mep). tympanometry was used to evaluate the changes in mep, while valsava and toynbee tympanometric tests were employed to study the et function, and the changes in nasal airway resistance were measured by anterior rhinomanometry. et dysfunction (etd) and a ... | 2012 | 3318349 |
| [instrumental measurement of the anteroposterior laxity of the normal and lax knee]. | | 2013 | 3809655 |
| the predictive validity of lay diagnostic interview schedule diagnoses in the general population. a comparison with physician examiners. | a clinical reexamination by psychiatrists is a useful comparison for exploring lay diagnostic interview schedule-derived psychiatric diagnoses in general population surveys, but as a validity standard psychiatric reexamination is less than ideal. there are many potential sources of disagreement that have nothing to do with the validity of either the lay or the psychiatrist examination. another approach to comparing lay and psychiatrist diagnoses is to examine their relative predictive power. we ... | 2013 | 3689095 |
| successful treatment of aspermia secondary to obstruction of ejaculatory duct. | a case is reported of a patient with aspermia secondary to bilateral ejaculatory duct obstruction. successful therapy was accomplished by use of the direct-vision urethrotome. | 2013 | 3716051 |
| prediction of the relative blood glucose response of mixed meals using the white bread glycemic index. | unexpected plasma glucose responses to different mixed meals fed to normal and diabetic volunteers have recently been reported. we have therefore examined in normal volunteers the effect of mixing carbohydrate foods of different glycemic indices (gis) without the addition of fat and protein. the observed gi of the mixed meal was within 2% of the expected value. in studies in the literature where fat and protein were added to mixed meals, the observed blood glucose responses also related signific ... | 2013 | 4053930 |
| [progestogens in the treatment of advanced breast cancer. clinical study of norethisterone acetate]. | | 2014 | 4313239 |
| the population-genetic aspect of forest typology. | | 2015 | 4432134 |
| mental retardation associated with an unusual amino acid excretion pattern. | | 2015 | 4426131 |
| carcinoma of breast. influence of size of primary lesion and lymph node involvement based on selective biopsy. | | 2016 | 5045884 |
| treatment of gastrointestinal cancer: current status and recent progress. | | 2016 | 4860338 |
| validity and accountability: clinical psychiatry's new challenges. | | 1972 | 422518 |
| a variant of poland syndrome: report of case. | a variant case of poland syndrome is reported, with the patient presenting major unilateral anomalies in the sternocostal head of the left pectoralis major muscle and a shorter left arm and hand. no pre-natal history of attempted abortion or using toxic or teratogenic drugs could be elicited. the variability of the upper extremity anomalies and the frequency of major ipsilateral defects of the skeletal and genite-urinary systems, the associated diseases, and the diagnosis and management of these ... | 1982 | 181952 |
| accessory molecules in t lymphocyte activation. | the currently accepted hypothesis used to explain the role of lyt-2 and l3t4 in t cell activation proposes how these molecules interact with class i and ii major histocompatibility complex molecules, respectively, on the antigen-presenting or target cell, to increase the avidity of binding of the antigen-specific t cell receptor. this has been tested using two antigen-specific, class ii-restricted t cell clones expressing both lyt- and l3t4. inhibition of function was observed only with monoclon ... | 2011 | 3106237 |
| [the usefulness of projective methods in the diagnosis of schizophrenia]. | | 2011 | 3043507 |
| [ménétrier's disease or giant hypertrophic gastritis]. | | 2014 | 4321224 |
| [ménétrier's disease or giant hypertrophic gastritis]. | | 2014 | 4321224 |
| frequency independent ultrasound contrast-detail analysis. | an ultrasound contrast-detail phantom has been developed to evaluate the image quality of diagnostic ultrasound imaging systems. the phantom includes eight conical targets whose b-mode images show disk lesions such that the object contrast of each lesion relative to background is independent of the imaging device or transducer frequency/spectrum. by maintaining conditions for rayleigh scattering and rayleigh speckle statistics in the phantom gel, the object contrast of each lesion depends only o ... | 2014 | 3901461 |
| implantation of permanent pacemaker in the first month of life for congenital complete heart block. | | 2015 | 4704237 |
| serum enzyme levels during exercise in patients with coronary heart disease: effects of training. | | 2016 | 5075087 |
| significance of eosinophilia during gold therapy. | | 2015 | 4433354 |
| promoter selectivity of prokaryotic rna polymerases. | | 2011 | 3076288 |
| purification of the constituent enzyme fractions of mycobacillin synthetase. | the final purification of the three-fraction enzyme complex mycobacillin synthetase was done by hydroxyapatite column chromatography and sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation; each of the fractions obtained migrates as a single component in sds/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis and gel electrofocusing. the mr of the enzyme fractions a, b and c by gel filtration is 260 000, 190 000 and 105 000, and that by sds/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis is 252 000, 198 000 and 108 000 respectively. non ... | 2013 | 3741392 |
| latent carcinoma of the prostate--why the controversy? | | 2015 | 4823973 |
| latent carcinoma of the prostate--why the controversy? | | 2015 | 4823973 |
| application of the morphine antagonist naloxone in psychic disorders. | | 1972 | 380575 |
| disease of the liver associated with alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency. | | 1975 | 301771 |
| molecular-epigenetic aspects of phylo- and ontogenetic memory. | | 1998 | 107470 |
| protein-calorie malnutrition in patients with colorectal cancer. | protein-calorie malnutrition, as determined by anthropometric measures and laboratory tests, was assessed in 17 preoperative patients with colorectal cancer and 47 control patients. the cancer patients had significant deficits in visceral protein and skeletal muscle and no deficit in fat stores. greater attention should be given to preoperative nutritional assessment and to the correction of protein deficits. | 1998 | 104851 |
| [current status and perspectives of bioethics in argentina]. | the study of bioethics in argentina owes much to the efforts of josé alberto mainetti, who in 1972 founded the institute of medical humanities, devoted to researching, teaching, and publicizing the discipline. because of growing interest in the field of bioethics, a bioethics center was created in the institute in 1987 and it has stimulated the organization of several groups in various provinces in the country. one of the most important of them, located at the national university of mar del plat ... | 1999 | 2144132 |
| [madame g.'s hyperthyroidism]. | | 2000 | 89684 |
| the collective and the personal. | | 2001 | 90674 |
| hodgkin's disease in childhood. | the histopathologic study of 103 patients with hodgkin's disease including 5 cases who had staging laparotomy during the last 10 years were reviewed. the following conclusions were drawn: 1. no significant sex difference among subtypes were noted. 2. associated glomerulopathy, nephrotic syndromes, and amyloidosis were occasionally found. 3. in childhood lymphomas excluding leukemia are the most frequent malignacies. among the lymphomas, hodgkin's disease predominates. 4. the most frequent subtyp ... | 2004 | 387804 |
| intra-osseous lipoma of the proximal part of the femur. case report. | | 2004 | 374417 |
| [intracellular mechanisms of cholestasis]. | | 2005 | 3320466 |
| [ultrasound morphology of gallstones]. | using a subtile examination technique genuine information can be obtained from the interior of a gallstone--at least to a depth of 15 mm. this information should provide an indication of the homogeneous (crystalline) or inhomogeneous (non-cholesterol) structure of the stone. further systematic use of differentiating gallstone ultrasonography could become a useful additional decision making criterion for selection of gallstones suitable for conservative treatment. | 2006 | 1449008 |
| participation, decision making, and job stress. | | 2008 | 2395036 |
| chronic granulocytic leukaemia presenting with mandibular mass. | a case of chronic granulocytic leukaemia with extramedullary deposits in the mandible is reported. systemic chemotherapy coupled with local irradiation resulted in regression of the mandibular mass. | 2008 | 2292564 |
| serial myocardial lactate metabolic changes after intracoronary thrombolysis in evolving myocardial infarction. | to investigate whether early reperfusion (less than or equal to 3 hours) preserves aerobic myocardial metabolism in acute myocardial infarction, we examined serial changes in trans-cardiac lactate extraction after thrombolysis in 43 patients with acute antero-septal myocardial infarction. in the chronic phase, we also determined abnormally contracting segments as an index of infarct size and regional ejection fraction as an index of chronic regional cardiac function. in the early reperfusion gro ... | 2011 | 3184437 |
| assessing familial aggregation of congenital cardiovascular malformations in case-control studies. | recent data indicate that the familial aggregation of congenital cardiovascular malformations (ccvm) varies with the type of defect in the index case. using a logistic regression model that allows for dependence among family members, we calculated the risk of any ccvm to case relatives compared with relatives of controls. data from 3,908 first-degree relatives of 570 matched cases and controls identified from 1981 through 1985 by the baltimore-washington infant study were used in the analyses. o ... | 2011 | 3215508 |
| self-report vs. instrumental measure in the assessment of the subjective effects of d-amphetamine. | | 2011 | 3153509 |
| the correlates of research success. | a survey was carried out of the undergraduate backgrounds and research achievements of 885 (94.1%) of all 940 medically qualified professors and readers in medical faculties in the united kingdom. a total of 217 (24.5%) of the graduates in these senior academic positions had graduated from oxford or cambridge and 137 (15.5%) had an intercalated bsc. the corresponding figures for a control group matched for sex and date of graduation were 118 (13.3%) for oxford and cambridge (academic to control ... | 2011 | 3115391 |
| [contact lenses for the correction of ametropia: indications, adaptation, complications of wearing lenses]. | | 2012 | 3475745 |
| [iatrogenesis of amalgam]. | | 2012 | 3256040 |
| [a comparative study. the older person too is an individual]. | | 2013 | 3850215 |
| drugs & geriatric surgery. implications for pre-operative and post-operative care. | | 2013 | 3647926 |
| differentiation of isotopically labeled nucleotides using fast atom bombardment tandem mass spectrometry. | | 2013 | 3592217 |
| enzyme studies of the testis in myotonic dystrophy. | | 2014 | 4249051 |
| [individuation and communication in various neurosis structures]. | | 2015 | 4692550 |
| [radiomorphology of renal tuberculosis with arguments for a simplified stage classification with reference to therapeutic viewpoints]. | | 2015 | 4344509 |
| protein-alkaloid relationship in datura stramonium var. tatula. | | 2016 | 5050374 |
| asthmatic hyperresponsiveness. | | 2016 | 4885824 |
| effects of propranolol and isosorbide dinitrate on exercise performance and adrenergic acitivity in patients with angina pectoris. | | 2016 | 4884575 |
| drug induced retinopathy. | | 2016 | 4902422 |
| cycloheximide induced amnesia and recovery as a function of training parameters. | | 2016 | 4857294 |
| pyriformsinusosotomy. a useful technique for temporary or permanent tube feeding. | | 2016 | 4959520 |
| newer diagnostic methods. | | 2015 | 4453578 |
| [control and prevention of foot and mouth disease in the western hemisphere]. | | 1999 | 85453 |
| the theory of the hospital: a review of the models. | this paper presents a survey of the literature on the theory of the hospital. the paper shows that certain methodological difficulties associated with the theory of the firm generally have been transmitted to the analysis of the hospital. it is also argued that structural considerations are of vital importance to the development of the theory of the hospital. unfortunately such considerations have, with a few exceptions, been ignored in the small number of formal models of the hospital that have ... | 2014 | 4023755 |
| development of the upper limb. | the advances of developmental biology are beginning to unravel the mechanisms behind congenital anomalies and should, in the not too distant future, have an impact upon their treatment. much of classic developmental biology represents careful descriptions of the developing body form, in this case the upper limb. there is a great deal to be learned from this approach. more recent experimental manipulations of limb development are serving to establish the basic processes by which form is generated ... | 2014 | 3913671 |
| [adamantiades--beh cet syndrome (report of 4 cases)]. | | 2015 | 4510738 |
| granular cell myoblastoma (gcm): contribution of three cases with genital involvement. | granular cell myoblastoma (mgc) is an uncommon benign tumor of mesodermal origin of which no more than sixty cases with genital involvement have been reported. among the genital organs, the labium majus of the vulva are the predilect site. we hereby contribute three new cases with a genital location (two in the vulva and one in the breast) and review the literature on the subject. | 2013 | 3569328 |
| [evaluation of tricuspid regurgitation before and after open heart surgery by pulsed doppler echocardiography--assessment of indications for tricuspid surgery]. | | 2013 | 3598260 |
| electrophoretic mobility, concentration, and activity of alpha 1-antitrypsin in serum of patients undergoing bone-marrow transplantation. | we have observed an electrophoretically abnormal, nonfunctional species of alpha 1-antitrypsin in serum from patients who were receiving bone-marrow transplants for treatment of leukemia or aplastic anemia. three of four patients in whose serum this protein appeared died soon after; the fourth recovered, and the disappearance of the abnormal alpha 1-antitrypsin paralleled his recovery. this suggests that the inability to maintain functional activity of alpha 1-antitrypsin predisposes patients to ... | 2012 | 3542290 |
| [the analysis of systolic intervals in the diagnosis of ischemic heart disease (author's transl)]. | | 2015 | 4451917 |
| septisol foam antiseptic. | | 1994 | 263078 |
| environmental pathology: new directions. | | 1974 | 428989 |
| [the general qualities of composites and other filling materials]. | | 1975 | 274988 |
| the making of a public service announcement. | | 1975 | 245978 |
| epidemiological studies of the occupational hazards of anaesthesia--a review. | the epidemiological literature on the ocupational hazards of anaesthesia which includes some sort of control data has been studied. it provides reasonably convincing evidence of a moderate increase in the risk of spontaneous abortion among exposed females, although it is possible that even this result is attributable to reporting bias. there is no convincing evidence of any other hazard. it has been pointed out by many authors that, even if spontaneous abortion is commoner among those working in ... | 1978 | 352182 |
| [the temporomandibular joint. etiopathogenesis and symptomatology of dysfunctional syndromes of the masticatory apparatus]. | | 1979 | 273279 |
| hypotensive anesthesia in total hip replacement. | | 1988 | 266276 |
| failure to respond to influenza vaccine in the aged: correlation with b-cell number and function. | failure to respond to influenza vaccination correlated with a decreased number and percentage of igd-bearing pbl and a dampened lymphocyte response to pwm in a subset of healthy aged volunteers. these subjects had normal levels of serum immunoglobulins, intact t cell function, and normal numbers of e-rosetting cells. | 1993 | 309499 |
| new trends in the preparation and storage of platelets. | | 2001 | 1731433 |
| closure of craniofacial defects after cancer resection. | resection of malignancies of the upper face and skull base may result in complex bone and soft tissue defects. to better define the optimal management of these defects, we conducted a retrospective review of 75 consecutive patients who underwent closure of 76 craniofacial defects after malignant tumor excision from 1966 to 1990. wound complications requiring further surgery occurred in 30% of the defects (23 of 76). wound complications at anterior, temporal, or combined sites were correlated wit ... | 2007 | 1951900 |
| [a trial of suppressing secondary hyperparathyroidism by oral high dose therapy of 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin d3]. | we reported a successful treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism by intermittent oral administration of high dose of 1, 25 dihydroxycholecalciferol [1.25-(oh)2d3] in three patients on maintenance hemodialysis. dialysis durations were 4 months in case 1, 6.5 years in case 2 and 12.5 years in case 3. the levels of c-pth ranged from 4.7 ng/ml to 94.2 ng/ml. 1, 25-(oh)2d3 in dosages up to 8.0 micrograms was given once a week just after hemodialysis. before the administration and after 48 hours, s ... | 2009 | 2787433 |
| career options of occupational physicians. | | 2009 | 2769461 |
| an assessment guide for community health nurses. | an assessment tool based on the omaha classification system broadens the focus of nursing diagnosis to encompass the cultural and sociological aspects of each area of patient assessment. | 2010 | 2793509 |
| preliminary observations on alterations in prolactin, gonadotropins, e2-17b & progesterone in patients with breast cancer. | | 2011 | 3131240 |
| [various problems of immunological prevention: changes in the schedule of preventive vaccination]. | | 2012 | 3432015 |
| [indirect cervical trauma: long-term adverse prognostic factors]. | | 2012 | 3423548 |