OBJECTIVES We audited a selection of systematic reviews published in 2013 and reported on the proportion of reviews that researched for unpublished data, included unpublished data in analysis and assessed for publication bias. DESIGN Audit of systematic reviews. DATA SOURCES We searched PubMed and Ovid MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2...

Moyer et al. [1] systematically collected published and unpublished dissertations evaluating psychosocial interventions for cancer patients and examined the methodological quality of these studies. They concluded that because published and unpublished dissertations differ little in methodological adequacy, the inclusion of unpublished dissertations in meta-analyses is desirable in order to avoi...

The objective of this study is to determine if the nerve pathology in patients with POEMS syndrome is different from CIDP. We hypothesized that nerve biopsies from patients with POEMS syndrome would have more small vessels and axonal degeneration but less inflammation than CIDP.We performed a retrospective analysis of nerve biopsies performed on "classic" CIDP and POEMS cases. Nerve biopsies we...

Chylothorax results from various causes, such as malignancy, trauma, or infection. POEMS syndrome (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes) is a multisystemic syndrome that is associated with plasma cell disorder. Pleural effusion is a common manifestation of POEMS syndrome, but the association of POEMS syndrome with chylothorax has not been reporte...

BACKGROUND Research articles reporting positive findings in the fields of orthopedic and general surgery appear to be represented at a considerably higher prevalence in the peer-reviewed literature, compared to published studies on negative or neutral data. This "publication bias" may alter the balance of the available evidence-based literature and may affect patient safety in surgery by depriv...

POEMS syndrome is a unique clinical entity. Although it's a diagnosis of exclusion, it was previously described by the presence of several typical characteristics as paraproteinemia, polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, and skin changes. Recently, new criteria were proposed, and the presence of two major and one minor criterion was claimed to suffice for a diagnosis. Both methods consi...

anima and animus are two ancient and very famous models in literature, which were first proposed by psychologists like jung. this image has been repeatedly presented by researchers out of the poems of different poets. the ancient pattern anima is a semi female part of men and animus is the semi male part of women. the formation of these ancient patterns is influenced by the mother and father an...