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Maxillary labial fraenectomy: indications and technique.
(201-04)A labial fraenectomy is indicated in various clinical situations and is performed to facilitate orthodontic closure of a maxillary midline diastema. In these clinical situations, timing of surgery during the phase of ... -
Posterior interosseous nerve palsy caused by parosteal lipoma: a case report.
(210)An 83-year-old woman presented with weakness in her right-hand and wrist extensors and swelling in the proximal part of the right forearm. Electromyography (EMG) confirmed involvement of posterior interosseous nerve at the ... -
The national clinical audit of falls and bone health: the clinical management of hip fracture patients.
(2009-11)BACKGROUND: The standards of care for older people who present with a fractured neck of femur (#NOF) have been defined by previously published national guidelines. To assess compliance with these standards the Healthcare ... -
Gentamicin-associated acute kidney injury
(2009-12)BACKGROUND: The incidence of gentamicin-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) as defined by the RIFLE criteria is unknown. AIM AND DESIGN: We performed a retrospective observational study to examine this and the predictive ... -
UK Renal Registry 12th Annual Report (December 2009): chapter 12: epidemiology of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia amongst patients receiving dialysis for established renal failure in England in 2008: a joint report from the UK Renal Registry and the Health Protection Agency.
(2010)BACKGROUND: From April 2007, all centres providing renal replacement therapy in England were asked to provide additional data on patients with Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia using a secure ... -
A review article on gastric volvulus: a challenge to diagnosis and management.
(2010)Acute gastric volvulus is a life-threatening condition, but its intermittent nature and vague symptoms may make diagnosis difficult. Imaging is usually only diagnostic if carried out when patients are symptomatic. The ... -
Teaching medical students rehabilitation medicine.
(2010)PURPOSE: The principles of rehabilitation medicine will become ever more important across many medical and surgical specialties in view of the rising prevalence of chronic and disabling conditions. Yet rehabilitation ... -
Role of routine oesophago-gastroduodenoscopy before cholecystectomy.
(2010)INTRODUCTION: A proportion of patients do not get symptomatic relief after cholecystectomy because there is an overlap in the symptomology of biliary and gasroduodenal pathologies. In our unit all the patients are offered ... -
MRI findings in herniation of the spinal cord.
(2010)Herniation of the spinal cord is a rare condition that causes non specific neurological deficits that are often a diagnostic challenge to clinicians. Despite several reports in the neurosurgical literature, it is only ... -
Primary small bowel liposarcoma (atypical lipomatous tumour) with myogenic differentiation.
(2010)Primary small intestinal liposarcomas originating in the small bowel are uncommon with a generally poor prognosis due to the advanced stage at the time of diagnosis. We describe a case of primary small bowel dedifferentiated ... -
Anti-TNF-alpha agents are less effective for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in current smokers.
(2010-01)OBJECTIVES: To assess if smoking status at the time of commencing an anti-TNF-alpha agent for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) reduces the likelihood of achieving at least a moderate response on the European League Against ... -
Hepatitis C virus-infected patients with a persistently normal alanine aminotransferase: do they exist and is this really a group with mild disease?
(2010-01)Opinion varies on whether or not hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected patients with persistently normal aminotransferase (PNALT) levels represent a group with mild disease. To evaluate the risk of ALT flare and fibrosis ... -
Tissue-advanced glycation end product concentration in dialysis patients.
(2010-01)BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Tissue-advanced glycation end products (AGE) are a measure of cumulative metabolic stress. Assessment of tissue AGE by skin autofluoresence (AF) correlates well with cardiovascular outcomes in ... -
Elastic intramedullary nailing in unstable fractures of the paediatric tibial diaphysis: a systematic review.
(2010-02)PURPOSE: The majority of paediatric tibial fractures can be managed conservatively. However, there is a small but significant group of patients that require surgical intervention for several indications, most notably, ... -
Troublesome belching with fetor odour.
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Delayed presentation of small bowel injury during suprapubic catheterisation.
(2010-04)We present a case of small intestine injury resulting from suprapubic catheter insertion. This case is of particular interest for three reasons. Firstly, the presentation of the injury was delayed by three months, until ... -
Neutropenia in patients receiving anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy.
(2010-06)OBJECTIVE: To examine the rates of and risk factors for neutropenia together with the dynamics of neutrophil and other white cell subset counts in a cohort of patients treated with a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor ... -
Pigmented villonodular synovitis of second toe interphalangeal joint: Methods of imaging.
(2010-06)Pigmented villonodular synovitis is a rare proliferative disorder of the synovium of unknown aetiology. We present a case of pigmented villonodular synovitis in an unusual location, the interphalangeal joint of a toe, ...
