A comparative study of health-p ...
Objectives To clarify the difference in health-promoting lifestyles between agricultural and non-agricultural workers in Japan, a cross-sectional st ...
Chemotherapy-induced toxicities ...
Background Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) followed by surgery is a promising treatment strategy for advanced esophageal cancer. Response to NACT is ...
Update of prognostic and predic ...
Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC) constitute about 5% of all cancers in the western world and the incidence and mortality rates of this ...
Improving melody recognition in ...
Recent research has shown that music perception remains very diYcult for most cochlear implant (CI) users, who generally report being unsatisWed wit ...
Rule 3,000: a more reliable pre ...
Nine different definitions of asymmetric sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) have been reported in literature. The objectives of this study are to: (1 ...
Laryngeal cancer and passive sm ...
In the present paper we investigate the relationship of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure to laryngeal cancer. 209 patients who were diagno ...
The cadherin–catenin complex in ...
Abnormal Wnt signaling and impaired cell–cell adhesion due to abnormal E-cadherin and b-catenin function have been implicated in many cancers, but h ...
Treatment of lymphatic malforma ...
Systemic immune responses after OK-432 (Picibanil) sclerotherapy in patients with head and neck lymphatic malformations (LM) were examined to achiev ...
Functional organ preservation a ...
The aim of the present investigation is to evaluate the outcome after induction chemotherapy and concurrent multi-drug chemoradiotherapy (IC/CCRT) w ...
Surgical versus non-surgical ma ...
National guidelines state that early-stage oropharyngeal carcinoma can be treated by either primary surgery or radiotherapy. There is a paucity of e ...
Anatomical and surgical aspects ...
Variation in the descent of the thyroid gland and during fetal life and regression of the thyroglossal duct is associated with many variations in fo ...
The comparison of cephalometric ...
The objective of the study is to evaluate the cephalometric characteristics and investigate the measurement differences between habitual snorers and ...
MRI-derived tumor thickness: an ...
The objectives of this paper are to evaluate the heterogeneity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)- derived tumor thickness within tumors of the sam ...
Neuro-otological findings in ps ...
To evaluate whether neuro-otological tests have clinical significance in psychiatric patients with nystagmus who have inner ear and/or brain dysfunc ...
Dilute vinegar therapy for the ...
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the eYciency of conservative dilute vinegar therapy in the management of spontaneous external auditory cana ...
Negative schizophrenic symptoms ...
The negative symptoms of schizophrenia have been considered to be a psychiatric form of the frontal lobe syndrome. However, no studies have compared ...
EEG alterations during treatmen ...
The aim of this naturalistic observational study was to investigate EEG alterations in patients under olanzapine treatment with a special regard to ...
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 estimated prevalence and co ...
Little research on the prevalence and correlates of adult ADHD has been conducted outside the United States. The aim of the present study was to est ...
Ten-year risk of all-cause mort ...
While assessment of global cardiovascular risk is uniformly recommended for risk factor management, prediction of all-cause death has seldom been co ...
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 ...
Posterolateral elbow dislocatio ...
Elbow joints are the second most common joints to dislocate, second only to shoulder joints with most of the dislocations occurring in the posterola ...
Bilateral anterior fracture-dis ...
Although bilateral anterior dislocation of the shoulders are not that much uncommon, but incidences of bilateral anterior fracture-dislocation shoul ...