More than 84 % of women with invasive breast cancer now survive more than five years. Chronic complications and disabilities such as lymphedema that occur as a result of therapeutic interventions became a major ...

A prospective randomized study was conducted in order to compare augmentation technique versus nonaugmentation technique, followed by early functional postoperative treatment, for operative repair of Achilles tendon ruptures. ...

The present study carried out in Diyarbakır, Elazığ and Mardin during 2002-2004 on almond trees infested with the diaspidid Mercetaspis halli (Green). M. halli is considered an important pest and is in the domestic quarantine ...

Fatty acid compositions of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792) was determined during embryogenesis, yolk-sac fry, swim up fry and fry stages. Embryonic and yolk-sac development of fertilized eggs were followed ...

In this study, transformation operator, some properties of kernel, properties of spectral characteristics and also uniquiness theorems for the inverse problems are studied for a class of Sturm-Liouville differential operators ...

beta-hydroxy fatty acids are a major component of lipid A moiety of lipopolysaccaride. We aimed to investigate the role of free beta-hydroxy fatty acids on inflammation, as well as to evaluate their e. ects on cytokine ...

Tick paralysis is a disease that occurs worldwide. It is a relatively rare but potentially fatal condition. The only way to establish the diagnosis is to carefully search for the tick paralysis. It is caused by a neurotoxin ...

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of rapid maxillary expansion (RME) and surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion (SARME) on nasal volume using acoustic rhinometric methods. Two groups of subjects ...

Background: The incidence of hormonal dysfunction as a cause of impotence remains controversial. However, several recent studies have reported evidence of hormonal abnormalities in 25-35% of impotent men. Hypothyroidism ...

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