introduction: the dorsal striatum plays an important role in the control of motor activity and learning processes within the basal ganglia circuitry. furthermore, recent works have suggested functional differentiation between subregions of the dorsal striatum methods: the present study examined the effects of bilateral electrolytic lesions of the dorsomedial striatum on motor behavior and learn...

background: several factors are associated with the development or exacerbation of pain in knee osteoarthritis (koa). in this study, we reviewed this context based on relevant studies. methods: recent published studies which have addressed the relationship between pain and koa were summarized. results: correlates of the clinical, demographic features, laboratory tests and abnormalities on radio...

OBJECTIVE To identify doctor and patient characteristics associated with excision of benign versus malignant pigmented skin lesions. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective audit of data on 4741 pigmented skin lesions excised from November 1998 to February 2000 by 468 general practitioners (39% response rate) from 223 practices in Perth, WA. (The data used were from the baseline period...

OBJECTIVE We assessed the association between psychosocial stress and preinvasive cervical neoplasia development controlling for HR-HPV infection. METHODS This case-control study enrolled low-income women receiving family planning services at health department clinics. There were 59 cases with biopsy confirmed HSIL and 163 with low-grade SIL and 160 controls with normal cervical cytology. A m...

Pan African Medical Journal. 2017;27:83. doi:10.11604/pamj.2017.27.83.10917 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/27/83/full/ © Hasnaa Zaouri et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)...

the majority of osseous tumors of the hand are benign. the surgeon who evaluates and treats osseous tumors of the hand has to be familiar with limb anatomy, tumor biology, various presentations of the tumors and the range of treatment possibilities and their limitations. lesions in the hand more often present earlier in their course than those at other sites, just because they are more likely t...

backgroundcongenital generalized lipodystrophy (cgl) is a rare disease. it is associated with near total fat loss, severe insulin resistance and hypoleptinemia leading to metabolic derangements.case presentationwe report a 25- year- old female with 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate-o-acyltransferase 2 (apgat2) mutation, and both sclerotic and lytic bone lesions together for the first time. bone cyst i...

introduction in recent years methods based on radio frequency waves have been used for detecting breast cancer. using theses waves leads to better results in early detection of breast cancer comparing with conventional mammography which has been used during several years. materials and methods in this paper, a new method is introduced for detection of backscattered signals which are received by...

background: magnetic resonance imaging (mri) has improved the diagnosis and management of patients with multiple sclerosis (ms). montreal cognitive assessment (moca) is a brief, sensitive test that has been recommended by national institute of neurological diseases and stroke and canadian stroke network (ninds-csn) as a reliable tool to detect mild cognitive impairments. this study aimed to eva...

AIM To evaluate the safety and efficacy of a 980 nm diode laser for the treatment of benign facial pigmented and vascular lesions, and in oral surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS 20 patients were treated with a 980 nm diode laser. Oral surgery: 5 patients (5 upper and lower frenulectomy). Fluence levels were 5-15 J/cm(2); pulse lengths were 20-60 ms; spot size was 1 mm. Vascular lesions: 10 patien...