JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.Summary Background and Objectives For thick melanomas, retaining the primary lesion during neoadjuvant therapy may enhance immune response through increased antigen load. This study assessed whether a central section from serially processed melanoma specimen, representing a transectional incisional biopsy, accurately reflects Breslow thickness and ...
Katharina Pustelnik, Philipp Tschandl
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International efforts on abandoning female genital mutilation
African Journal of Urology, 2013 Female genital mutilation (FGM), sometimes referred to as female circumcision or female genital cutting, is a harmful cultural practice without any known health benefit.
E. Edouard, O. Olatunbosun, L. Edouard
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The relationship between dominant Western discourse and personal narratives of female genital cutting: exploring storytelling among Swedish-Somali girls and women. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2023 Palm C +3 more
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Circadian rhythms of metabolite abundance in Drosophila are largely driven by time of feeding
The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.Circadian clocks exist in the brain and peripheral tissues such as the Drosophila fat body. Single‐nuclei transcriptomics reveal that the fat body clock generates time‐of‐day differences in metabolic gene transcription, which may also be indirectly controlled by brain clocks.
Sumit Saurabh +7 more
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Factors associated with general practitioners' routines and comfortability with assessing female genital cutting: a cross-sectional survey. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv Res, 2023 Ziyada MM +4 more
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Histopathology, EarlyView.This paper shows that deeper sections reveal additional STICs and HGSCs in risk‐reducing salpingo‐oophorectomy specimens of patients who did not have a STIC or HGSC diagnosis but did develop peritoneal HGSC 10 years after surgery. This adds to the premise that HGSC originates in the fallopian tube.
Anouk B Bouwmeester +17 more
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Prevalence of female genital cutting among Egyptian girls
Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationOBJECTIVE: Female genital cutting (FGC) is the collective name given to traditional practices that involve partial or total cutting away of the female external genitalia whether for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons.
Mohammed A Tag-Eldin +5 more
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Measuring success in HS treatment from the physician's and the patient's perspective
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, EarlyView.Integrated clinician (HiSCR, IHS4, IHS4‐55, HS‐IGA) and patient (HiSQOL, DLQI) scores, combined with imaging‐based fibrosis and inflammation assessment, redefine treatment success in hidradenitis suppurativa by aligning treat‐to‐target strategies with both inflammatory control and irreversible structural damage.
Georgios Nikolakis +4 more
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Female genital mutilation/cutting and risk of obstetric anal sphincter injury at delivery
Swiss Medical WeeklyOBJECTIVE: To assess the incidence of obstetric anal sphincter injuries in women with female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) who delivered vaginally at the University Hospital in Geneva and to examine potential predictive factors for obstetric anal ...
Federico Migliorelli +3 more
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"Damaged genitals"-Cut women's perceptions of the effect of female genital cutting on sexual function. A qualitative study from Sweden. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2022 Jordal M +3 more
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