1961 symposium digest — fourth part of the digest

Reader Digest

In English, Italian La recente introduzione dell'endoscopia tridimensionale nella chirurgia endonasale è stata accolta con favore con l'aspettativa di superare la principale limitazione dell'endoscopia, ovvero la mancanza di visione stereoscopica. Questa innovazione

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In This Issue In This Issue he ER is a site of both synthesis and quality control. Rejected, improperly folded proteins are destroyed by a well-characterized machinery (the ER-associated degradation [ERAD] pathway) in the cytosol and ER membrane that extracts and chews up any unfolded proteins. But the mechanisms for recognizing unfolded proteins as targets for destruction are less well charact...

Primary care quality digest Primary care quality digest

The authors of this paper note that although ‘there is general agreement that primary care is the linchpin of effective health care delivery’ there are no systematic reviews of the evidence which may support this. This study aimed to identify the core dimensions of primary care, assessing the evidence for their relation with and relevance to outcomes. Kringos DS, Boerma WGW, Hutchinson A, van d...

Digest of Human Physiology

Pelvic Floor Digest

Consent in surgery. Wheeler R Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2006 May;88(3):261-4. A review of consent for surgery is timely. As the length of surgeons' training diminishes, despite the increasing interest in the content of the surgical curriculum, the law governing the process of gaining consent has been given scant attention. The advent of non-medically qualified surgical practitioners raises question...