INTRODUCTION A prospective study to evaluate the reliability of cystoscopy was performed with fluorescence (photodynamic diagnosis, PDD) compared with standard white light (WL) cystoscopy in patients with solitary carcinoma in situ (CIS), undergoing BCG treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between February 2004 and March 2006, 49 patients suffering from CIS were enrolled in the study. Patients ag...

PURPOSE Traditionally, flexible intramedullary nails (FINs) are not to be used to fix femur fractures in patients > 50 kg (110 lbs). However, studies have not examined the efficacy of this technique in overweight and obese patients who may be under this 'weight cutoff'. The purpose of this study was to assess how patient body mass index (BMI) impacts the treatment of paediatric femur fractures ...

Maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) using a handgrip dynamometer was assessed in seventy-two young adult males. The subjects were divided into two groups on the basis of a BMI of 18.5 kg/m2. The subjects with a BMI < 18.5 kg/m2 (n 38) were further divided into an underweight (UW; n 20) group and a chronically energy-deficient (CED; n 18) group. The CED subjects had significantly lower MVC (30.1...

Since the recent suggestion3 that the PDD option be reconsidered on account of the cost and complexity of rerouting half of the NIF beams, a number of two-dimensional (2-D) hydrodynamic PDD simulations have been reported. Simulations4,5 of the all-DT capsule design of Refs. 6 and 7 were carried out using the hydrodynamics code SAGE, which includes fully self-consistent 3-D ray tracing.8 These s...

A 65-year-old patient presented with severe osteoarthritis of the knee, 47 years after a severe polytrauma in which he had presented diaphyseal fractures of the left femur and tibia. These fractures had been treated conservatively and had healed with major deformities. He underwent total knee arthroplasty with navigation assistance. This allowed for optimal component positioning and restoration...

Temporal bone osteodysplasia can produce many different symptoms, such as involvement restricted to the temporal bone or impairment of other bones. We consider, in this study two entities that are rare osteodysplasia cases, which are osteopetrosis and Camurati-Engelmann disease, the latter being extremely rare. We present two cases of benign form of osteopetrosis (Albers-Schulenburg's disease),...

We provide a systematic review of epidemiological surveys of autistic disorder and pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) worldwide. A secondary aim was to consider the possible impact of geographic, cultural/ethnic, and socioeconomic factors on prevalence estimates and on clinical presentation of PDD. Based on the evidence reviewed, the median of prevalence estimates of autism spectrum disor...