osteomyelitis is an inflammatory infectious condition of bones, occurring either acutely or chronically. the clinical course of the disease leads to destructive or sclerosing patterns of the involved bone. this report presents a case of chronic focal sclerosing osteomyelitis in a 19-year-old male with a history of an uncontrolled convulsive condition. the lesion was first diagnosed as an osteob...

background & aim: chronic subdural hematoma (csdh) is a common neurosurgical pathology. the objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology of this pathology and the results in treating it combined from three hospital centers in benin. methods & materials/patients: from september 2010 to september 2013 a multi-center, retrospective and descriptive study was conducted in three hospital ...

Leishmaniasis is a common parasitic disease classified to acute and chronic types based on the duration of the disease. The acute lesion is presented as ulcerated papule and nodule that heal after a few months with an atrophic scar. The chronic form of cutaneous leishmaniasis is a nonhealing lesion that is persistent for more than one year. Here, we describe a chronic case of leishmaniasis deve...

Objectives Posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) are highly prevalent in chronic pain patients and may affect pain symptomatology negatively, but there is still a great need to explore exactly how this occurs. Therefore, this study investigated differences in pain intensity, pain-related disability, and psychological distress between chronic pain patients not exposed to a trauma, patients expose...

This article describes research on the role of environmental factors affecting autonomic regulation and predisposition for states of sympathetic and parasympathetic dominance. Perspectives regarding the role of environmental factors in physiological regulation contribute to our increasing understanding of the impact of gene-environment interactions in the origins of chronic illness such as type...

BACKGROUND There is twice the morbidity and mortality resulting from vehicle related trauma in rural and remote areas than in metropolitan areas. Little is known about Australian rural general practitioners' management of those affected. METHODS Seventeen rural GPs in North Queensland participated in semi-structured interviews for this exploratory study of the management of patients presentin...

conclusions general fatigue and its subscales had a significant relationship with workplace physical trauma among miners. workplace physical trauma can be reduced by managing fatigue with different programs, including decreasing the workload, scheduling rest breaks at the facilities, and possibly providing welfare and entertainment opportunities for the workers. background fatigue may lead to o...

OBJECTIVE This study compares medical errors in pediatric trauma patients with and without chronic conditions. METHODS The 2009 Kids' Inpatient Database, which included 123,303 trauma discharges, was analyzed. Medical errors were identified by International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnosis codes. The medical error rates per 100 discharges and per 100...