BACKGROUND Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL) is the standard procedure for patients with renal stones over 2 cm in diameter. We analyzed complications after this procedure focusing on two different methods of tract dilation. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between August 2008 and April 2016 222 percutaneous nephrolithotomies were performed in a total of 208 patients. The Group I (n=123) comprised patient...

The present study examined children's use of behavioural outcome information to make personality attributions in social and non-social contexts. One hundred and twenty-eight 3- to 6-year-olds were told about a story actor who engaged in primarily successful or primarily unsuccessful interactions with several different people (social context) or several different computers (non-social context). ...

OBJECTIVE Internally guided actions are defined as being purposeful, self-generated and offering choices between alternatives. Intentional actions are essential to reach individual goals. In previous empirical studies, internally guided actions were predominantly related to functional responses in frontal and parietal areas. The aim of the present study was to distinguish event-related potentia...

Viability. -There are very few authentic cases of the survival of infants born before the twenty-seventh or twenty-eight week of pregnancy, although Home's case, which was supposed to have been born in the eighteenth week, was alive and well at nine years. Very few survive any length of time if the weight is under two pounds or the length less than thirteen inches. Oberwarth recently reported a...

In order to evaluate the effect of intrathecal gentamicin on gram-negative bacillary meningitis, twenty-eight patients were treated with intralumbar or intraventricular gentamicin in combination with systemic gentamicin and with other antibiotics. Sterile cerebrospinal fluid was achieved in 21/22 (95%) episodes of documented gram-negative bacillary meningitis in patients who received more than ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the feasibility of a workplace farmstand programme through the utilization of an online ordering system to build awareness for local food systems, encourage community participation, and increase local fruit and vegetable availability. DESIGN A 4-week pilot to explore feasibility of workplace farmstand programmes through a variety of outcome measures, including survey, mod...

Abstract Background LHPP is a tumor suppressor protein associated with various malignancies like liver, oral, pharyngeal, bladder, cervical, and gastric cancers through controlling pathways. Several single nucleotide variants have been reported to cause cancers. The main objectives of our study were investigate the impact deleterious non-synonymous on structure functions protein. Results We use...