E. N. Economou,1,2 Th. Koschny,3,2 and C. M. Soukoulis3,2,4 1Department of Physics, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece 2Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL)-Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece 3Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA 4Department of Mater...

Evangelos N. Liatsikos *, Dimitrios Karnabatidis , George C. Kagadis , Paraskevi F. Katsakiori , Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg , George C. Nikiforidis , Petros Perimenis , Dimitrios Siablis b Department of Urology, University of Patras, School of Medicine, Patras, Greece Department of Radiology, University of Patras, School of Medicine, Patras, Greece Department of Medical Physics, University of Patras,...

Charalampos Skokos,1,2,∗) Chris Antonopoulos,1,∗∗) Tassos C. Bountis1,∗∗∗) and Michael N. Vrahatis3,†) 1Department of Mathematics, Division of Applied Analysis and Center for Research and Applications of Nonlinear Systems (CRANS), University of Patras, GR-26500 Patras, Greece 2Research Center for Astronomy, Academy of Athens, 14 Anagnostopoulou str., GR-10673 Athens, Greece 3Department of Mathe...

First Department of Internal Medicine Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Second Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; Department of Nephrology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace...

Introduction. Familial cases of Kaposi's sarcoma have rarely been reported. Kaposi's sarcoma is not uncommon in Greece; its incidence is estimated at 0.20 per 100.000 habitants, showing an increased predominance in the Peloponnese, in Southern Greece. Case Report. We describe five cases of familial clustering of KS originating from Greece. Discussion. The pathogenesis of familial Kaposi's sarco...

spine surgery began its evolution in the beginning of the 19th century in order to reach nowadays the point of being considered an important subspecialty of neurosurgery and orthopaedics. the purpose of this historical review is the search and evaluation of the progress in spine surgery in the second half of the 20th century. this review concerns the evolution of this field in greece. special r...

background: this study conducted as part of a screening program for the promotion of community health in the primary care setting of ormos korthi in andros, greece. the objective of this study was to identify the levels of glucose and total cholesterol in individuals without major cardiovascular problems in order to identify cases of undetected dyslipidemia and high blood glucose levels, in a r...

A West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance network including sentinel chickens was deployed in Thessaloniki county, Greece, from May to July 2011. For the first time in summer 2011, a chicken WNV isolate from 6 July was molecularly identified. The partial NS3 sequence was identical to that of the Nea Santa-Greece-2010 WNV lineage 2, detected in central Macedonia in 2010. This suggests that WNV is act...

MD, PhD. Scientific collaborator at the Social and Family Medicine Clinic, Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. MD. Doctoral student at the Social and Family Medicine Clinic, Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. MD, PhD. Head of the Social and Family Medicine Clinic, Departm...

Ioanna G Alexandropoulou1,2*, Maria Panopoulou2, Theodoros A Parasidis1, Theocharis Konstantinidis1 and Theodoros C Constantinidis1 1Laboratory of Hygiene and Environmental Protection, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Campus (Dragana) Building , 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece 2Microbiology Laboratory, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Campus (Dragana), 68100 Alexan...