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Open AccessThe ‘AbdoMAN’: an artificial abdominal wall simulator for biomechanical studies on laparotomy closure techniques
Incisional hernia remains a frequent complication after abdominal surgery associated with significant morbidity and high costs. Animal and clinical studies have exhibited some limitations. The purpose of this ...
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Open AccessEmergency repair of inguinal hernia in the premature infant is associated with high direct medical costs
Inguinal hernia repair is frequently performed in premature infants. Evidence on optimal management and timing of repair, as well as related medical costs is still lacking. The objective of this study was to d...
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Incisional Hernia: Plastic Aspects, Component Separation, Technical Details & Pediatrics
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Topic: Abdominal Wall Hernia — Abdominal wall closure
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Quantifying Early Vigour and Ground Cover using Digital Image Analysis
Early vigour, or the fast leaf area development by an establishing crop is important in many breeding programs and is currently evaluated by subjective rating. The objective of this study was to test whether a...
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Wegener’s granulomatosis presenting as a thyroid mass
A 71-year-old patient was referred for suspected hyperthyroidism because of a 15-kg weight loss, suppressed thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), and a 4-cm nodule in the left thyroid lobe. Both free T4 and T3 we...
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A giant prolactinoma presenting with unilateral exophthalmos: Effect of cabergoline and review of the literature
We report the case of a 45-year-old male presenting with unilateral exophthalmos due to a large tumoral mass invading the skull base. Ophthalmologic examination did not show any visual field defects. Imaging t...
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Clinical Pharmacokinetics of the Antiandrogens and Their Efficacy in Prostate Cancer
Prostatic cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in males. Treatment by radical prostatectomy and radiotherapy is useful in the early stages of the disease. Whenever metastases occur, patients ...
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Wolfram syndrome: A clinical study of two cases
Two unrelated patients with two different images of Wolfram (or ‘DIDMOAD’) syndrome are presented: a 19—year old woman suffering from all the important features of this syndrome, and a 38—year old man showing ...
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Failure of total hypophysectomy to remove intrasellar microadenoma in cushing’s disease
The pathological findings are described of a female patient with persistent Cushing’s disease after two unsuccessful transsphenoidal operations: a left transsphenoidal hemihypophysectomy followed by a total hy...