Scrotal neoplasia: would truck drivers be at greater risk?
OBJECTIVE: To analyze how scrotal neoplasias have been managed during the past decade and to question possible factors or professions associated to its presence. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively evaluated every case reported from 1995 to 2005 at
Daniel Seabra+4 more
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Background: Virgin coconut oil (VCO) has antioxidant properties and is being increasingly used as nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals. It also has a long history of ethnopharmacological use.
Babita Pruseth+2 more
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National mortality burden due to communicable, non-communicable, and other diseases in Ethiopia, 1990–2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 [PDF]
Background: Ethiopia lacks a complete vital registration system that would assist in measuring disease burden and risk factors. We used the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk factors 2015 (GBD 2015) estimates to describe the mortality burden ...
A Misganaw+45 more
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Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome, is a rare urogenital congenital anomaly. Coexisting Mullerian ducts anomalies and ovarian neoplasms are rarely reported.
Johara AlMulhim, MD+1 more
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Establishment of the Seoul National University Prospectively Enrolled Registry for Genitourinary Cancer (SUPER-GUC): A prospective, multidisciplinary, bio-bank linked cohort and research platform [PDF]
Purpose: To establish a prospective, comprehensive, multidisciplinary, bio-bank linked genitourinary cancer cohort based on standard real practice. Materials and Methods: We established the Seoul National University Prospectively Enrolled Registry for ...
Chang Wook Jeong+14 more
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Cowden syndrome - Diagnostic skin signs [PDF]
Cowden syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant familial cancer syndrome with a high risk of breast cancer. The most important clinical features include carcinomas of the breast and thyroid, and hamartomatous polyps of the gastrointestinal tract.
Burgdorf, Walter H. C.+2 more
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A novel combination of triple metachronous malignancies of the kidney, oropharynx and prostate. A case report [PDF]
Synchronous or metachronous malignancies are a rare event, with an incidence rate that increases with age. The present study reports the case of a 70-year-old Caucasian male who was referred to the outpatient office of the Urology Unit, Sapienza ...
Carbone, Antonio+6 more
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Periodontal diseases and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Present and future
Abstract For more than two decades the possible association between periodontal diseases and adverse pregnancy outcomes has been extensively evaluated. Numerous observational, intervention, and mechanistic studies have offered valuable information on this topic.
Yiorgos A. Bobetsis+3 more
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Funding data from publication acknowledgements: coverage, uses and limitations [PDF]
This article contributes to the development of methods for analysing research funding systems by exploring the robustness and comparability of emerging approaches to generate funding landscapes useful for policy making. We use a novel dataset of manually
Agarwal+50 more
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The primacy of multiparametric MRI in men with suspected prostate cancer [PDF]
Background: Multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) became recognised in investigating those with suspected prostate cancer between 2010 and 2012; in the USA, the preventative task force moratorium on PSA screening was a strong catalyst. In a few short years, it has
Logager, V.+5 more
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