BACKGROUND Structural and functional hippocampal abnormalities have been previously reported in institutionalized psychopathic and aggressive populations. This study assessed whether prior findings of a right greater than left (R > L) functional asymmetry in caught violent offenders generalize to the structural domain in unsuccessful, caught psychopaths. METHODS Left and right hippocampal vol...

OBJECTIVE The present study is an evaluation of cases of acute biliary pancreatitis that developed subsequent to cholecystectomy. METHODS Total of 44 patients were assessed in this retrospective study. Demographic characteristics, severity of illness, time elapsed between cholecystectomy and development of pancreatitis, whether endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) was performed, surgical procedure ...

BACKGROUND A number of treatments, including Nd-YAG laser therapy, brachytherapy, cryotherapy, electrocautery, and photodynamic therapy, can re-open the obstructed bronchial lumen in patients with inoperable obstructive bronchial tumours. None of these is considered to be a "gold standard". METHODS The results of a retrospective study of 98 patients treated by radiofrequency tissue ablation a...

In order to facilitate the control of tuberculosis (TB), the World Health Organization (WHO) has defined a standardised short-course chemotherapy and a strategy, directly observed therapy. In 2000, WHO surveillance of TB treatments in Europe recorded a successful outcome rate of 77%. The aim of this report is to estimate treatment outcomes in European countries based on published studies and to...

Multicellular spheroids are very attractive models in oncology because they mimic the 3D organization of the tumour cells with their microenvironment. We show here using 3 different cell types (mammary TSA/pc, embryonic kidney Hek293 and cervical cancer HeLa), that when the cells are growing as spheroids the frequency of binucleated cells is augmented as occurs in some human tumours.We therefor...

This study describes the characteristics of successful and unsuccessful clinical performance in prelicensure nursing students. Clinical evaluation is an important role of nurse educators; however, many feel uncomfortable with its subjective nature, and commonly used criteria for successful and unsuccessful clinical performance are not available in the literature. Using a qualitative descriptive...

To the Editor: Nadelman et al. (Nov. 15 issue)1 report that patients may be reinfected with different genotypes of Borrelia burgdorferi. Their observations, however, do not provide evidence that patients with continuing symptoms (i.e., patients with what is often termed chronic Lyme disease or post–Lyme disease syndrome) are not persistently infected. Although bacteria may be cultured from init...

We warmly thank Randelli and coworkers for their interest in our work.1 Our randomised, pragmatic, controlled trial compared surgical non-surgical treatments rotator cuff disease (RCD) with or without full-thickness tendon tears after unsuccessful initial rehabilitation.2 Randelli commented that the power of study lies fact potential eligible patients underwent a systematic, adequately perform...