We have conducted a retrospective study on the reasons for discontinuing anticoagulants in 50 patients over the age of 75 years compared with 198 adults under 75 years to determine the safety of therapy in the elderly. Venous thromboembolism and arterial embolization were the most common indications for therapy in the elderly and the median duration of therapy in all patients was 7 months (9 da...

Primary liver cancer (PLC) is an important public health problem in Viet Nam. That is, the incidence of PLC was estimated to be the second highest in males and the fifth in females in 1990 nationwide, (GLOBOCAN, 1999). PLC had the highestcancer incidence in males (ASR 25.3 per 100,000) and the fifth most common in females (ASR 5.9 per 100,000) in Ho Chi Minh City (HCM) in south Viet Nam from 19...

We show a homeomorphic equivalent relation among the compact subspaces (Cantor middle-third sets, two-sided shift map of Cantor sets and ternary sets etc.) of the real line. Using such result, we show that there exists a chaotic homeomorphism of a compact subspace of the real line onto itself if and only if it is homeomorphic to the Cantor set.

AIM To examine the kinetics of the tumor marker levels: osteopontin (OPN), S-100β, melanoma inhibitory activity (MIA) and tissue polypeptide-specific antigen (TPS), and to evaluate their potential for predicting earlier liver metastasis in patients with uveal melanoma (UM). PATIENTS AND METHODS Forty-three UM patients who remained disease-free (DF) for at least 10 years, 32 patients with meta...

[This corrects the article on p. 198 in vol. 10, PMID: 27587998.].

The functions of the gluon fragmentation into 3 P J quarkonium are calculated to order 2 s. With the recent progress in analysing quarkonium systems in QCD we show explicitly how the socalled divergence in the limit of the zero-binding energy, which is related to P-wave quarkonia, is treated correctly in the case of fragmentation functions. The obtained fragmentation functions satisfy explicitl...