OBJECTIVE the aim of the study was to compare the clinical effect of Zero-profile interbody fusion device (Zero-P) with anterior cervical plate interbody fusion system (PCB) in treating cervical spondylosis. METHODS a total of 98 patients with cervical spondylosis (110 segments) in February 2011 to January 2013 were included in our hospital. All participants were randomly divided into observa...

Background and Objective: Hysteroscopy is considered as very important in the investigation of abnormal uterine bleeding. It is usually performed as an outpatient procedure under either local or no anesthesia. This study was designed to compare the combination of paracervical block (PCB) and conscious sedation with paracervical block or conscious sedation alone for outpatient hysteroscopy i...

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) are environmental endocrine disruptors, altering thyroid hormone concentrations in mammals. Normal thyroid hormone concentrations, particularly thyroxine (T 4), are necessary for normal growth and development in the fetus, and throughout infancy and into adulthood. The importance of thyroid hormone to development has been demonstrated clinically by the effects of...

A 26-year-old lady presented to our emergency department on April 6, 2008, referred from a rural hospital as threatened abortion, with bleeding per vagina and pain abdomen, carrying 5 months’ pregnancy. She had been bleeding per vagina from the April 5 and gave history of occasional spotting. She also gave history of post-coital bleeding over a period of 8–9 months. She had two previous success...

The occurrence of cancer during pregnancy is a delicate event for the obstetrician and oncologist, because many diagnostic therapeutic procedures usually used are inapplicable pregnancy. We report here case cervical at 15 SA discovered by recurrent post-coital metrorrhagia. going to try describe care in Their clinical diagnosis delayed non-specific character symptomatology histological aspects ...

BACKGROUND To examine the effect of in utero exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) on age at menarche in offspring, we conducted a cohort study over two generations. METHODS Female participants (and their offspring) in a Michigan angler cohort in which organochlorine levels had been determined previously were studied. Of their 213 female offsp...

Aim. Delayed bleeding after endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for gastric epithelial neoplasms is a major complication. We investigated factors related to post-ESD bleeding to identify preventive measures. Methods. The study included 161 gastric epithelial neoplasms in 142 patients from June 2007 to September 2010. Post-ESD bleeding was defined as an ulcer with active bleeding or apparent ...

OBJECTIVE To determine coital incidence at term and to estimate its effect on labor onset and mode of delivery. METHODS Healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies and established gestational age were recruited to keep a diary of coital activity from 36 weeks of gestation until birth and to answer a short questionnaire. Two hundred women with complete coital diaries were available for analys...

OBJECTIVES The authors sought to describe the association between post-procedural bleeding and long-term recurrent bleeding, major adverse cardiac events (MACE), and mortality among older patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). BACKGROUND Bleeding complications after PCI are associated with an increased risk for acute morbidity and long-term mortality, but the associatio...