The performance of two screening instruments for pervasive developmental disorders was studied in the total population of children and adolescents with mental retardation between 4 and 18 years (N=1059) in Friesland, a northern province of the Netherlands. Parents completed the ABC, staff completed the PDD-MRS. The screening instruments were related to the ADI-R and ADOS for 184 participants. T...

BACKGROUND Dementia is common in Parkinson's disease, but the underlying brain pathology is not yet fully understood. AIM To examine the changes in the brain of patients with Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, using structural magnetic resonance imaging. METHODS Using voxel-based morphometry, the grey matter atrophy on brain images of patients with Parkin...

To cite: Concha Sandoval JM, Osma Rueda JL, Sandoval Daza A. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/tsaco2016-000029 ABSTRACT Background Fixation of diaphyseal tibial fractures by plates is not considered the best option due to complications that may eventually arise; however, if principles of stability and proper surgical techniques are ...

BACKGROUND We report on the validity of the computerized diagnoses of autism in a large case-control study investigating the possible association between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in the UK using the General Practitioner Research Database (GPRD). We examined anonymized copies of all relevant available clinical reports, including general practitioners' (GP) notes, consult...

Emergency departments deal with a spectrum of sick, distressed, and critically ill patients. For many patients, especially children, experiencing an emergency department can be a traumatic experience in itself. One personal experience firmly etched in the principal author’s mind is of a mother in the emergency department desperately trying to cover her 5-year-old daughter’s eyes and ears to shi...

Methods Variable-density Poisson Disk Distribution (VD-PDD) undersampling was applied for 4D flow imaging. By applying VD-PDD independently at each time frame (Figure 1a), we achieved random undersampling in both the ky-kz plane and temporal domains. In addition, we applied an improved initial solution for SPIRIT to significantly improve reconstruction accuracy and robustness. We explored the d...

1. Wyss S, Deb A, Watson R, Hammer S. Radiographic measurements for PDD diagnosis in Spix’s macaws (Cyanopsitta spixii) at Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP), Qatar. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Diseases of Zoo and Wild Animals. Zurich: University of Zurich; 2009. p. 349–54. 2. Lierz M, Herden C, Herzog S, Piepenbring A. Proventricular dilatation disease and avian borna...

Em. 118: 85-88 (1986) In the absence of secondary attraction, 2 species of Scolytidae, Zps l&dens (L.eConte) and Hylastes gracilis LeConte, showed significant preference while in flight for highgirdled over non-girdled lodgepole pines, Pinus contorta var. Zutifoliu Engelmann. In contrast, beetles in 2 genera of Elateridae, Ampedus and Ctenicera, showed significant preference for non-girdled ove...

INTRODUCTION Enhanced dynamic wedges (EDW) are known to increase drastically the radiation therapy treatment efficiency. This paper has the aim to compare linear array measurements of EDW with the calculations of treatment planning system (TPS) and the electronic portal imaging device (EPID) for 15 MV photon energy. MATERIALS AND METHODS The range of different field sizes and wedge angles (fo...