MICROSURGERY OF VENTRICULAR LESIONS: AN EXPERIENCE WITH 309 PATIENTS Prof. Basant Kumar Misra, Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, P. D. Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, India President Elect, World Federation of Skull Base Societies Secretary, WFNS Chairman, Education Committee, Asian Australian Society of Neurological Surgeons Past Pr...

From an estimated 85,200 HIV-infected individuals in Mumbai in 1997, at least 4120 excess deaths attributed to AIDS occurred among 15-54-year-olds. To prevent repetition of this excess in other parts of India, priority intervention programmes should be instituted quickly because the window of opportunity is closing quickly.

Review Article Current understanding on venous leg ulcer U Alok*, P Bhardwaj, A Singh, JJ Cherian TATA Consultancies Services, Regulatory Medical Writing, Wellspring, Vikhroli, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Quintiles Research India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, Karnataka, India Bharati Vidyapeeth University Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India Government Medical College, Department of Pharmacology, Th...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the probability of developing lung cancer in the entire life span of the people of Greater Mumbai and variation according to age and sex. Information on cancer incidence trends in a community forms the scientific basis for planning and organising prevention, diagnosis and treatment. During the last 24 year period, a total of 11,458 lung cancer cases were registered (9,052 ...

INTRODUCTION In a populous city like Mumbai, which lacks an organized prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) system, there exists an informal network through which victims arrive at the trauma center. This baseline study describes the prehospital care and transportation that currently is available in Mumbai. METHODS A prospective trauma database was created by interviewing 170 randomly ...

In computational linguistics, a large body of work exists on distributed modeling lexical relations, focussing largely relations such as hypernymy (scientist -- person) that hold between two categories, expressed by common nouns. contrast, linguistics has paid little attention to entities denoted proper nouns (Marie Curie, Mumbai, ...). These have investigated in detail the Knowledge Representa...

King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital started treating COVID-19 patients in the first week of March 2020. It initially with a single “isolation ward” and steadily increased to then second floors heritage building KEM. A lot brainstorming, planning, designing wards, procuring hardware, setting up back-office teams, creating “war room,” putting together “attack teams” were integral components hercu...