1 Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Osaka University, c/o Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minatoku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan 2 RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, c/o Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan 3 Human Genome Center, Institute of Medic...

The association between B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) polymorphism and cancer is under debate and remains elusive. This meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the relationships of Bcl-2 -938 C>A polymorphism (rs2279115) with susceptibility and prognosis of cancer. Odds ratios (ORs) were used to measure the association between Bcl-2 polymorphisms and cancer risk. Hazard ratios (HRs) were used to me...

conclusions all of the gynecologic surgeons must be aware of gastrointestinal injuries and should anticipate injury to these organs especially in high-risk patients for decreasing patient morbidity. results the mean age of women was 33.2 ± 7.57 years. 44% of the patients had a history of abdominal scar. 32% of all gi injuries occurred during total abdominal hysterectomy (tah). the small bowel w...

Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932 Goals and objectives 933 Participants 933 Evidence, methodology and validation 933 Concept of a "live", modular document 933 Organisation of the document 933 De® nition of COPD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933 Diagnosis of COPD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933 Epidemio ogy, risk factors an...

1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tokyo Medical School, Japan 3S.S Ladies Clinic, Japan 4Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku University, Japan 5Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Inamino Hospital, Japan 6Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kurume University, F...

With the rapid advance of the Internet, management of structured documents such as XML documents has become more and more important (Marchiori, 1998; Suciu & Vossen, 2000). As a simplified version of SGML, XML is recommended by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, 1998a) as a document description metalanguage to exchange and manipulate data and documents on the WWW. It has been used to code various ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate fetal aortic Doppler for the prenatal diagnosis of hemoglobinopathies in the first trimester of pregnancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between January and November 2014, a total of 108 patients were enrolled in the study. The couples were carriers of either alpha/beta thalassemia, sickle cell disease or combined carriers of these and were admitted to Çukurova University Facult...

MD, PhD. Regent professor, Division of Pathological Gynecology, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, São Paulo; and Gynecologist, Division of Gynecology, Department of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), São Paulo, Brazil MD, PhD. Associate professor, Division of Pathological Gynecology, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, F...