UNLABELLED In patients with polyostotic fibrous dysplasia of bone, the peak incidence of fractures is during the first decade of life, followed by a decrease thereafter. Phosphaturia is associated with an earlier incidence and increased frequency of fractures. INTRODUCTION Fibrous dysplasia (FD) is a disorder involving either one (monostotic) or several bones (polyostotic FD [PFD] and sometim...

OBJECT Surgery for Chiari malformation Type I (CM-I) is one of the most common neurosurgical procedures performed in children, although there is clearly no consensus among practitioners about which surgical method is preferred. The objective of this meta-analysis was to compare the outcome of posterior fossa decompression with duraplasty (PFDD) and posterior fossa decompression without duraplas...

Software reliability is an important feature of a good software implementation. However some faults which cause software unreliability are not detected during the development stages, and these faults create unexpected problems for users whenever they arise. At present most of the current techniques detect faults while a software is running. These techniques interrupt the software process when a...

The effect of different photon flux densities (PFD) and temperatures on the relative growth rate (RGR) and the concentration of three halogenated monoterpenes in samples of Plocamium cartilagineum L.( Dixon), a marine alga (Rhodophyceae), were studied. The highest RGR (22.8 +/- 0.04 d(-1)) was obtained at 15 degreebC and 41 ,mol m(-2) s)(-1) of PFD and the lowest (18.0 +/- 0.12 d(-1)) was obtai...

Plasmids with the replication origin of bacteriophage fd, the pfd-plasmids, were investigated for compatibility in E. coli cells expressing fd gene 2-protein. This was measured by transformation of Ca-treated cells with and without a residing pfd-plasmid. When the two plasmids contained the complete intergenic region of bacteriophage fd, they were fully compatible in contrast to the situation i...

Abstract Background Perianal fistulizing disease (PFD) is a complication occurring in about 20% of Crohn’s Disease (CD) patients. It consists the formation new epithelised tracks connecting intestine with outer perianal region, which dramatically worsens patient's quality life. The mechanisms driving fistula have not been elucidated and therefore, there are currently no specific treatments for ...

introduction radiotherapy planning systems require many percentage depth dose (pdd) and profile measurements and there are various dosimeters that can be used to obtain these scans. as dose perturbation is particularly troublesome in smaller photon fields, using a low-perturbation, unshielded electron field diode (efd) in these fields is of interest. the aim of this work was to investigate the ...

This study was performed to investigate the effects of Pueraria radix, the root of a legume Pueraria lobata (Wild.), on the content of collagen and elastin and discuss its role in treating patients with pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD). This prospective, multi-center, and randomized study was performed on postmenopausal women diagnosed with PFD planning to undergo vaginal hysterectomy. Included p...