(1) Most survivors reported a range of problems that they attributed to having had cancer: 35%, proven or perceived infertility; 24%, sexual problems; 31%, health and life insurance problems; 26%, a negative socioeconomic effect; and 51%, conditioned nausea, associated with visual or olfactory reminders of chemotherapy.
(2) The radiologic findings on conventional examinations (plain films and cholangiograms) in a large group of patients with proven hepatobiliary tuberculosis are reviewed.
(3) Ultrasonography of 4 cases of intussusception in children with proven lead points were reviewed retrospectively.
(4) Urologic evaluation of all patients with congenital scoliosis is recommended; however, diagnostic ultrasonographic evaluations of the urinary tract have proven to be an acceptable alternative as an initial screening modality.
(5) As regards other factors, however, whose causative role has hitherto been considered proven or at least very probable, no differences were found between patients and controls (e.g.
(6) If it is proven he did, he must be brought to justice, said the politician.
(7) Patch and photopatch tests with fibric acid derivatives and ketoprofen were performed in the patients, in 12 normal volunteers, and in 7 patients with photopatch-proven photocontact dermatitis to ketoprofen.
(8) Proven necrotizing enterocolitis was seen in eight infants and was suspected in eight others.
(9) However, its possible value in such programmes has not been proven here.
(10) The lymphoid origin of these latter cases was proven by gene rearrangement studies.
(11) Regional hyperthermic perfusion after surgery of recurrent malignant melanoma should only be recommended in prospective and controlled trials, until its value has been proven in several randomized studies.
(12) Magnetic resonance (MR) images of 12 patients with angiographically proven middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion were analyzed, retrospectively.
(13) One hundred cases of histologically proven corneal and conjunctival tumours were extracted from the records at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and from the senior author's private practice in the last ten years.
(14) Combined brachioplasty, thoracoplasty, and mammoplasty has proven to be safe, effective, and appropriate toward achieving these goals.
(15) The efficient and reliable assessment of general community health requires the development of comprehensive and parsimonious measures of proven validity.
(16) Ultrasound has also proven useful in evaluating patients with ambiguous genitalia, amenorrhea and suspected PID and also is an effective means of localizing intrauterine contraceptive devices.
(17) Salmonella typhi O and H antibody titres were determined by the Standard Agglutination Test (SAT) in 85 patients with bacteriologically proven typhoid, 102 patients with non-typhoidal febrile illnesses (control group 1), and 170 healthy subjects (control group 2).
(18) For evolutionary biologists population variability per se has proven of interest.
(19) Our findings suggest that adoption of a sequential vaccination schedule (inactivated poliovirus vaccine followed by OPV) would be effective in decreasing the risk of VAPP while retaining the proven public health benefits of OPV.
(20) It has proven useful in developing attitudinal objectives, measuring achievement of these objectives and modifying teaching approaches in both undergraduate and continuing medical education.