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Is Carotid Endarterectomy a Trainee Operation?
Recent dramatic changes in surgical training resulting from working-hour regulations may lead to lack of competence. Traditionally, carotid surgery has been the domain of specialists. This study was designed t...
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Posttraumatisches Pseudoaneurysma mit fibromuskulärer Dysplasie der Temporalarterie
Bei einem 30-jährigen Mann wurde klinisch ein Aneurysma in der A. temporalis superficialis sinistra diagnostiziert. Nach problemloser chirurgischer Sanierung wurde histopathologisch ein posttraumatisch entstan...
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Small Is Beautiful: Why Profundaplasty Should Not Be Forgotten
Surgical profundaplasty (SP)is used mainly as an adjunct to endovascular management of peripheral vascular disease (PAD) today. Results from earlier series of profundaplasty alone have been controversial, espe...
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Shuntchirurgie in Europa und den USA
Nach einem anfänglich gemeinsamen Weg in der Fistelchirurgie begann in den USA ab etwa 1975 der bevorzugte Einsatz von Prothesenshunts. In bis zu 80% wurden bei Erstoperationen Gefäßprothesen implantiert, mit ...
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Host factors in occupational diisocyanate asthma: a Swiss longitudinal study
Objective: To investigate the usefulness of surrogates for individual susceptibility to organic diisocyanates in occupational asthma. Subjects: All new cases declared to the Swiss National Accident Insurance Comp...
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Mercury-bearing black shales and human Hg intake in eastern Finland: impact and mechanisms
Migration of Hg from black shales to the aquatic ecosystems and local residents was studied comprehensively with samples of black shales (627 samples), surface waters (22), organic stream sediments (40), organ...
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First-phase insulin response in young healthy children at genetic and immunological risk for Type I diabetes
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Exposure to Endotoxins and Microbes in the Treatment of Waste Water and in the Industrial Debarking of Wood
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Feasibility of genetic and immunological prediction of Type I diabetes in a population-based birth cohort
Aims/hypothesis. Population-wide genetic screening of susceptibility to multifactorial diseases will become relevant as knowledge of the pathogenesis of these diseases increases and preventive in...
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Urinary methanol and formic acid as indicators of occupational exposure to methyl formate
Objective: To evaluate the validity of methanol (MeOH) and formic acid (FA) in urine as biological indicators of methyl formate (MF) exposure in experimental and field situations. Methods: The subjects were 28 f...
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Rat model for renal effects of 2-alkoxyalcohols and their acetates
Male Wistar rats were given ethanediol (9.4 g/l), 2-ethoxyethylacetate (5.4 g/l), 2-butoxyethylacetate (2.9 g/l) and 1,2-propanediol (40 g/l) respectively in their drinking water for 2 weeks. Urine was collec...
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Interlaboratory Comparison of Endotoxin Analyses in Occupational Exposure
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Urinary hexane diamine as an indicator of occupational exposure to hexamethylene diisocyanate
The occupational exposure of 19 men to hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) vapour was monitored during one 8-h shift. It ranged from 0.30 to 97.7 μg/m3. This was compared with the urinary output of hexane diamine (H...
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Biological monitoring of occupational exposure to toluene diisocyanate
The study validated the use of urinary toluene diamine (TDA) in postshift samples as an indicator of preceding 8-h exposure to toluene diisocyanate (TDI). Nine workers exposed in TDI-based polyurethane foam pr...
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Volatile metabolites in occupational exposure to organic sulfur compounds
Dimethyl sulfide in breath was determined by the gas chromatographic method in 14 persons exposed to organic reduced sulfur compounds in sulfate pulp mills. Dimethyl sulfide concentrations in breath (range 0.0...
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Pulse Oximetry for Assessment of Gastric Tube Circulation in Esophageal Replacement After Subtotal Esophagectomy
Due to its simplicity, the stomach is widely used as a substitute following an esophageal resection, particularly in malignant diseases. In cancer patients, the smaller curvature of the stomach is resected, an...
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Urinary arginine and ornithine in occupational exposure to 2-ethylhexanoic acid
Nine sawmill workers were divided into two groups according to their exposure to 2-ethylhexanoic acid, (EHA), a pesticide which has replaced the older pentochlorophenol. The men with lower exposure excreted 30...
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Detemination of carboxylic acids in biological samples as their trichloroethyl esters by gas chromatography
Dicarboxylic acids were esterified by 2,2,2-trichloroethanol by using trifluoroacetic anhydride and phosphoric acid as catalysts. The method was developed to facilitate the evaluation of workers' exposure to s...
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2-Ethylhexanoic acid inhibits urea synthesis and stimulates carnitine acetyltransferase activity in rat liver mitochondria
Adult male 3-month-old Wistar rats were given 0, 100 mg/l, 1, 5 or 10 g/l 2-ethylhexanoic acid in their drinking water for 20 days. Their daily consumption of contaminated water was measured and compared with ...
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