Rural Drainage and Disease

EUS‐Guided Drainage in the Pancreatobiliary Disease

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) was developed as a diagnostic modality but rapidly gained a role for a variety of therapeutic applications. Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS)‐guided cholangio pancreatic drainage has been reported as an alternative to surgery or percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography if endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is unsuccessful. Its concept includes EUS‐...

Prevalence of nutritional disease in rural iran and approaches to its correction

Rural or urban living and Parkinson's disease.

Although the precise etiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) is as yet unknown, it appears that certain environmental factors are involved. Prior living in a rural area has been implicated as a possible risk factor for PD, particularly in the early onset type. We evaluated the role of previous living conditions in the clinical correlates and outcome characteristics of 118 PD patients. All of them ...

Health and Disease in Rural Ethiopia

Ethiopia, among the world's poorest countries, suffers from a full spectrum of health problems. A plastic surgeon and a public health physician present their experiences in Sidamo province in the Rift Valley.

Cholangiocarcinoma arising after biliary-enteric drainage procedures for benign disease.