Introduction. Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is rare and confers good prognosis. Long-term health related quality of life (HRQoL) and pregnancy outcomes are not well known in subjects treated during adolescence and young adulthood. Methods. Cross-sectional analysis of HRQoL and global self-esteem, using SF-36 and ISP-25 surveys, and of pregnancy outcomes in female survivors of DTC treated ...

BACKGROUND There is no consensus on the optimal treatment of multinodular goiter (MNG), but in the past few years, the use of radioiodine has increased. This study's objective was to evaluate adjuvant methimazole (MMI) therapy to increase and standardize radioiodine uptake (RAIU) with a fixed therapeutic (131)I dose of 1110 MBq (30 mCi). METHODS Our study included 5 women with MNG treated wit...

Background: Mental distress among medical students is often reported. Burnout has not been studied frequently and studies using interviewer-rated diagnoses as outcomes are rarely employed. The objective of this prospective study of medical students was to examine clinically significant psychiatric morbidity and burnout at 3rd year of medical school, considering personality and study conditions ...

CMV matrices are the unitary analog of Jacobi matrices; we review their general theory. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. MSC: 05E35; 47A68; 15A52

Editorial on the occasion of J‑AIM completing five years of successful and timely publication. At the outset on behalf of the editorial board, I wish to thank all the active members of the Editorial Board members and reviewers without whom this journey would have been impossible. We owe thanks to Medknow, now part of Wolters Kluwer for their professional support. Many developments have happened...

Objective. To analyze some factors that could influence the outcome of patients with PTMC. Material and Methods. This is a longitudinal observational study. All patients diagnosed and treated for papillary thyroid microcarcinoma at the University Hospital of Vigo, between January 1994 and December 2003, were included in the present study. Demographic characteristics, tumour characteristics, TNM...

T H E A N N U A L Convention of the Aero Medical Association this year is centered about the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association. By coincidence it is also the fifth anniversary of the Space Medicine Association. In the atmosphere of appropriately recognizing these temporal landmarks it is well to recount certain highlights in this brief history. The fifth birthday of a youngster is mar...

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) forms two different membrane protein complexes, gH/gL/gO and gH/gL/UL128/UL130/UL131, that function in different cell types. gH/gL/gO appears to be important for HCMV entry into or spread between fibroblasts, processes that occur at neutral pH. We demonstrated that HCMV entry into epithelial and endothelial cells requires gH/gL/UL128-131 and involves endocytosis and...