Donor Hepatectomy for Living Do ...
Background and Aim Complications associated with live liver donor surgery should be minimized. There is little information on the impact of team exp ...
Differential Effects of Vitamin ...
Purpose DCP is a useful HCC tumor marker, which reflects a defect in vitamin K metabolism. We tested the hypothesis that vitamin K treatment of HCC ...
Expression of ADAMTS12 in Color ...
Aim The aim of this study was to investigate the role of ADAMTS12 in colorectal cancer progression and to examine whether ADAMTS-12 can be considere ...
Fecal Detection of Mycobacteriu ...
Background and Aim Despite the increasing evidence of MAP/DNA isolation in Crohn’s disease (CD), its potential pathogenetic role remains unclear. To ...
Focal Fat Masquerading as Malig ...
Background and Aims Liver failure from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an increasing indication for liver transplant and recurrence of ...
Quality of Life in Oncological ...
Quality of life is an important outcome measurement in objectifying the current health status or therapy effects in patients with oropharyngeal dysp ...
Cricopharyngeal Dilatation for ...
Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is a rare autosomal dominant, progressive degenerative muscle disorder featuring dysphagia with limited th ...
Evaluation of anthropometric pa ...
Objectives We evaluated anthropometric parameters and physical fitness in elderly Japanese. Methods A total of 2,106 elderly Japanese (749 men and ...
Blood lead levels of contempora ...
Objectives Lead concentrations in whole blood (BPb) of Japanese children were measured to obtain insight into the sources of variation and to estima ...
Endoscopic ultrasonography find ...
Aim Patients with achalasia may have a thicker muscularis propria layer than normal subjects. The aim of our study was to determine the prevalence o ...
Pediatric endocanalicular diode ...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of endocanalicular diode laser dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR), which is a minimally invasiv ...
Sandwich technique in nasal dor ...
Tutoplast fascia lata (TFL) has been used as an onlay graft for nasal dorsal augmentation in open approach rhinoplasty; however, insertion of layers ...
Changes in expression of oncoge ...
Despite modern diagnostic procedures and up-to-date therapy, the survival of head and neck tumour patients is unfavourable. This can be explained by ...
Glottic laser surgery: outcomes ...
The aim of the present investigation was to analyze the oncological results of a series of early stage glottic carcinomas treated with CO2 laser-ass ...
Controversies in RELN/reelin ex ...
Several studies have reported a potential genetic association between disease-speciWc single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) of RELN and otosclerosis ...
Role of sphenopalatine ganglion ...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the analgesic efficacy of sphenopalatine ganglion block performed under general anesthesia in patients undergo ...
Low flow vascular malformations ...
The clinical presentation of low flow vascular malformations of the head and neck (LFVM) can range from a birthmark to severe disfigurement, functio ...
Optimized voxel brain morphomet ...
To date, few studies have addressed the relationship between brain structure alterations and responses to atypical antipsychotics in schizophrenia. ...
Subjective emotional over-arous ...
From the clinical practice and some experimental studies, it is apparent that paranoid schizophrenia patients tend to assign emotional salience to n ...
Electroconvulsive therapy for p ...
We report the successful use of electroconvulsive therapy in a 11-year-old boy with autism and a 4-year history of psychotropic-resistant bipolar af ...
Epidemiology and etiology of Pa ...
The etiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is not well understood but likely to involve both genetic and environmental factors. Incidence and prevalen ...
Maternal smoking during pregnan ...
Obstetric and neonatal complications have been associated with completed and attempted suicide (suicidal acts) in young offspring. Maternal smoking ...
Extensive thoracolumbar spinal ...
We report the case of extensive thoracolumbar tuberculosis involving eight vertebral bodies, and successful treatment by two-stage surgical procedur ...
Rockwood type III acute acromio ...
Background The management of grade III acute acromioclavicular dislocations is controversial. We hypothesized that direct repair of acromiocalvicula ...
Treatment of posterior cruciate ...
Objectives To report clinical and functional outcomes following Wxation of tibial posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) avulsion fractures through Burks ...