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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Outcomes Of Surgically Treated Adult Strabismus, Nuntawan Thamwarakul, Sudarat Yaisawang, Tulvatana Wasee, Parima Hirunwiwatkul
Outcomes Of Surgically Treated Adult Strabismus, Nuntawan Thamwarakul, Sudarat Yaisawang, Tulvatana Wasee, Parima Hirunwiwatkul
Chulalongkorn Medical Journal
No abstract provided.
Treatment Patterns For Cancer In Western Australia: Does Being Indigenous Make A Difference?, Sonja E. Hall, Caroline E. Bulsara, Max K. Bulsara, Timothy G. Leahy, Margaret R. Culbong, Delia Hendrie, C D'Arcy J. Holman
Treatment Patterns For Cancer In Western Australia: Does Being Indigenous Make A Difference?, Sonja E. Hall, Caroline E. Bulsara, Max K. Bulsara, Timothy G. Leahy, Margaret R. Culbong, Delia Hendrie, C D'Arcy J. Holman
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
Objective: To examine whether hospital patients with cancer who were identified as Indigenous were as likely to receive surgery for the cancer as non-Indigenous patients. Design, setting and patients: Epidemiological survey of all Western Australian (WA) patients who had a cancer registration in the state-based WA Record Linkage Project that mentioned cancer of the breast (1982–2000) or cancer of the lung or prostate (1982–2001).
Main outcome measures: The likelihoods of receiving breast-conserving surgery or mastectomy for breast cancer, lung surgery for lung cancer, or radical or non-radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer were compared between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations using …
Clinical Features And Outcome Of Surgery In 30 Patients With Acromegaly, A Chandna, N Islam, A Jabbar, L Zuberi, N Haque
Clinical Features And Outcome Of Surgery In 30 Patients With Acromegaly, A Chandna, N Islam, A Jabbar, L Zuberi, N Haque
Section of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Objective: To assess the surgical outcome of hypophysectomy in acromegalic patients, differences in response to surgery in micro and macroadenoma and the development of associated hormonal deficiency after surgery.
Methods: Retrospective analysis of charts of acromegalic patients who were operated upon at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, was done. Information regarding presentation, laboratory data, radiological assessment, details of surgery and postoperative outcome was recorded. Surgical outcome was classified depending on the degree of disease control after surgery as biochemical cure, remission and treatment failure.
Results: Out of 30 patients, eighteen (60%) were males and 12 (40%) females with …
What Is The Impact Of Tram Flap Breast Reconstruction On Self-Esteem And Perceived Body Image For Women With Breast Cancer?, Olivia Hill
Theses : Honours
Breast cancer is the most common of all cancers in women (26%) in Australia (Australian Institute Health Welfare AIHW, 1996; National Breast Cancer Centre NBCC, 1999). It is estimated that the lifetime incidence of one in eleven women in Australia will be diagnosed with breast cancer by the age of seventy-four (National Health and Medical Research Council NHMRC, 2000). Surgical resection continues to be the mainstay of treatment for early breast cancer, with approximately 50% of women diagnosed with breast cancer undergoing mastectomy (NBCC, 1999). Both the diagnosis of breast cancer and subsequent mastectomy raises a number of psychosocial issues …