OBJECTIVE The majority of children with posterior fossa tumors have hydrocephalus (HC) at the time of presentation. There is no consensus regarding the management of HC in these children. Here, we report the rate of cure of HC with tumor surgery alone. PATIENTS AND METHODS This is a retrospective study of 87 children with posterior fossa tumors in which 35 patients had medulloblastoma, 38 had...

BACKGROUND Heart failure (HF) in combination with mechanical dyssynchrony is associated with a high mortality rate. To quantify contractile dysfunction in patients with HF, investigators have proposed several indices of mechanical dyssynchrony, including percentile range of time to peak shortening (WTpeak), circumferential uniformity ratio estimate (CURE), and internal stretch fraction (ISF). T...

Women of all ages and social and cultural backgrounds can be affected by prolapse, urinary incontinence and faecal incontinence. For most, a cure can be found with the right investigation and subsequent treatment. For some, however, a cause can take time to be established, some may not want medical or surgical treatment, and for others a cure is not always possible. For these groups of women, d...

are capable of cure by any means short of extirpation; still, I think there will be found, scattered through the pages of our journals from time to time, a goodly number of cases where a permanent cure was achieved without resort to the major operation. In some cases it is the bromide of potassium or the chlorate of potass that cures ; in others, pressure or tapping, or both combined; or the ha...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar, is an important public health problem. If not treated, virtually all clinically symptomatic patients die within months. The diagnosis is based on the Montenegro skin test (MST) and anti-Leishmania titers. Nevertheless, the time required for cured individuals living in a leishmaniasis-endemic area to present a positive skin test and negative ...