Nine years of block release at Hendon

Age at menarche: Accuracy of recall after thirty-nine years.

Textiloma nine years after nephrectomy.

INTRODUCTION Foreign bodies after surgical procedures are not very reported in the literature. It is estimated to have 1 case for 1,300 operations, although in practice the frequency might probably be higher. CASE REPORT A woman, 38 years, submitted to left nephroureterectomy for renal transplantation in 1993. During 9 years, she was asymptomatic, and then she presented intermittent left flan...

Thirty nine years of stratified trees

The stratified tree, also called van Emde Boas tree, is a data structure implementing the full repertoire of instructions manipulating a single subset A of a finite ordered Universe U = [0...u − 1]. Instructions include member, insert, delete, min, max, predecessor and successor, as well as composite ones like extract −min. The processing time per instruction is O(loglog(u)). Hence it improves ...

Rifampicin for lepromatous leprosy: nine years' experience.

Over 100 patients with lepromatous leprosy were treated with rifampicin in a series of pilot, uncontrolled, and controlled trials in 1968-77. The rapid bactericidal effect of rifampicin on Mycobacterium leprae was confirmed. Clinical improvement became apparent sometimes as early as 14 days after the start of treatment. Nevertheless, a few persisting viable M leprae were detected as long as fiv...

Breastfeeding and risk of overweight and obesity at nine-years of age.

Whether breastfeeding is protective against the development of childhood overweight and obesity remains the subject of considerable debate. Although a number of meta-analyses and syntheses of the literature have concluded that the greater preponderance of evidence indicates that breastfeeding reduces the risk of obesity, these findings are by no means conclusive. The present study used data fro...