Ancient schwannomas rarely found in the central nervous system and ancient change in an intracranial schwannoma (intracranial portion of the trigeminal nerve) is extremely rare. A seventy-year man presented with headache of 3 months duration and one episode of generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Imaging findings were suggestive of left temporal high grade lesion. During surgery there was well...

objective: diabetes mellitus is one of the most common medical problems worldwide. approximately 18% of persons over 65 years old are diabetic. who estimates that the prevalence rate of diabetes (4% in 1995) will increase to 5.6% in 2025. diabetic foot problems are potentially the most preventable long–term complication for diabetes. the purpose of this study was to test the utility of the heal...

Using cultured glioma cell line, we demonstrated in vitro and in vivo that when low grade glioma was pass through glioma cell culture at 19th passage, these tumor cells were malignantly transformed. This cell line was established from tissue culture of neurosurgical specimen, pathologically diagnosed as glioma (low grade glioma; grade 1-11) with glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) positive b...

OBJECTIVE Positive outcome expectancies have been shown to predict initiation of alcohol use in children and to mediate and moderate the relationship between dispositional variables and drinking behavior. Negative outcome expectancies for alcohol appear to weaken as children progress to middle adolescence, but positive expectancies tend to increase during this time. Positive alcohol expectancie...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of presenting a recommendation in a clinical practice guideline using different grading systems to determine to what extent the system used changes the clinician's eventual response to a particular clinical question. DESIGN Randomised experimental study. SETTING Clinician offices and academic settings. PARTICIPANTS Paediatricians and paediatric residents i...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare crestal bone-level changes, soft tissue parameters and implant success and survival between small-diameter implants made of titanium/zirconium (TiZr) alloy or of Grade IV titanium (Ti) in edentulous mandibles restored with removable overdentures. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a randomized, controlled, double-blind, split-mouth multicenter clinic...

The objective of this study was to see how students’ strategies for solving weighted average problems change over their high-school years. The questions were: What knowledge of the weighted average do children have before the introduction to the concept? What strategies they use to solve problems through their high-school years? Do they improve after formal instruction? Do they differ across gr...

The present study examined the differences of conflict coping tactics in adolescents' grade and gender and parents' gender and explored the relationships among conflict frequency, conflict coping tactics, and life satisfaction. A total of 1874 Chinese students in grades 7, 8, 10, and 11 completed surveys on conflict frequency, coping tactics, and life satisfaction. The results obtained by MANOV...