Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 5.4 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 6.7 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 7.3 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 6.0 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

To estimate the risk of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection for cervical malignancies, we conducted a case-control study in Japan. Abnormal cervical cell (366) and normal cell samples (1562) were tested for the presence of HPV DNA using a new PCR-based test (LCR-E7 PCR). When single HPV infections were considered, 26 different HPV types were identified in normal cervices and in low-grade squam...

Seventy four cases of thymoma were reclassified into three histological categories--cortical (30), medullary (9), and mixed (34) (the remaining patient had an intrathymic thymoma)--for an investigation of the relation between histological type, clinical behaviour, and long term prognosis. There were significant differences between the histological types in the frequency of myasthenia gravis and...

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 7.7 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 9.3 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 6.6 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 6.6 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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BACKGROUND Curaçao is a Dutch-Caribbean Island located in a high-risk area for cervical cancer.Prior to introduction of a prophylactic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, knowledge of the prevalence of high-risk HPV vaccine genotypes (HPV16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52 and 58) in cervical (pre)cancer is required. OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of HPV genotypes in invasive cervical cancers (IC...

PURPOSE To investigate the very long-term prognosis of patients with uveal melanoma and the clinical characteristics influencing it. METHODS Charts, registry data, and histopathologic specimens of 289 consecutive patients with choroidal and ciliary body melanoma treated in the district of the Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland, between 1962 and 1981 were audited. Definitions for co...

Abstract: Surveys were carried out for chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii, in the areas of Ntakata (300 km2 between the Mkamba River and the Lubalisi River, 05°45′ –06°15′ S, 30°00′ –30°15′ E), and Kakungu (200 km2 between the Lubalisi River and the sources of the Rubufu River, 05°55′ –06°15′ S, 30°00′ –30°15′ E), Tanzania, during the dry seasons of 2001 and 2003. The predominant veget...

....................................................................................................................... 5 OVERVIEW ....................................................................................................................... 6 1. INTEROPERABILITY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS.......................................................... 10 1.1 Definition.............................

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.1 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 7.1 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 5.8 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4.1 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....