INTRODUCTION In the surgical management of cholesteatoma, one can opt for a closed technique (simple mastoidectomy) or open surgery (radical mastoidectomy). Open mastoidectomy with reconstruction of the posterior wall and the middle ear in a single surgery combines the advantages of both techniques, namely, adequate surgical exposure, eradication of cholesteatoma, and anatomical reconstruction ...

El presente artículo trata la evolución del poblamiento medieval de zona septentrional Valle Alto río Guadalbullón. Se presentan datos novedosos, nunca tenidos en cuenta los yacimientos entorno, gracias a aplicación múltiples análisis GIS materia altitud, pendiente y visibilidad. Todo ello, bajo una metodología multidisciplinar, ha podido confirmar modelos defensivos patrones asentamiento muy v...

A recently developed dating method for glacier ice, based on the analysis of radiocarbon in carbonaceous aerosol particles, is thoroughly investigated. We discuss the potential of this method to achieve a reliable dating using examples from a midand a low-latitude ice core. Two series of samples from Colle Gnifetti (4450ma.s.l., Swiss Alps) and Nevado Illimani (6300ma.s.l., Bolivian Andes) demo...

de sus años de virrey en Perú. Este extraordinario libro, proEl uso de lentes correctoras en las colonias españolas del Nuevo Mundo aparece documentado por primera vez en la figura del virrey Luis de Velasco y Castilla (Carrión de los Condes, Palencia, 1539-Sevilla, 1617). Si las gafas fueron fabricadas en Nueva España, en la que el virrey residió casi toda su vida, indican un trasvase temprano...

Gold-mining may play an important role in the maintenance of malaria worldwide. Gold-mining, mostly illegal, has significantly expanded in Colombia during the last decade in areas with limited health care and disease prevention. We report a descriptive study that was carried out to determine the malaria prevalence in gold-mining areas of Colombia, using data from the public health surveillance ...

OBJECTIVE To explore possible associations between self-reported prevalence of catastrophic illnesses such as chronic renal failure, HIV/AIDS and cancer and a set of structural social determinants. METHODS Ecological study using data from the 2005 Population Census conducted by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), focusing on municipalities in the Colombian department ...

INTRODUCTION Afebrile pneumonia syndrome in infants, also called infant pneumonitis, pneumonia caused by atypical pathogens or whooping cough syndrome is a major cause of severe lower respiratory infection in young infants, both in developing countries and in developed countries. OBJECTIVE To describe children with afebrile pneumonia syndrome. METHODS Through a cross-sectional study, we rev...