Corresponding author: Mehmet Tort, M.D. Erzurum Bölge Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Kalp ve Damar Cerrahisi Kliniği, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey. Tel: +90 442 316 57 63 e-mail: [email protected] Compression of the left renal vein between the abdominal aorta and the superior mesenteric artery is named as Nutcracker syndrome (NCS). It is an extremely rare pathology which usually manifests with hemat...

OBJECTIVE Known as an uncommon disease at the beginning of the 20(th) century, lung cancer has been the most frequent cause of cancer-related deaths in males since the 1950s and in females in the last two decades. The aim of this study was to determine the lung cancer incidence in Erzurum; its clinical properties, cancer subtypes, and application phases; the relationships of tumors with paramet...

OBJECTIVES To determine the seroprevalence of diphtheria in 767 children aged 0-6 years and to identify the relationship between diphtheria seroprevalence and several sociodemographic characteristics of the study subjects in the Erzurum, Erzincan and Kars cities situated in Eastern Turkey. DESIGN A cross sectional study. SETTING The subjects were recruited from three cities (Erzurum, Erzinc...

this study focuses on the factors influencing consumer’s decision in fish consumption in erzurum province of turkey. the data were obtained from 384 households who live in urban areas of erzurum province in 2012. the sample size of the study was determined by unclustered proportional sampling method. analytic hierarchy process (ahp) was used to determine the most suitable type of fish for house...

OBJECTIVE Although tension-type headache (TTHA) is one of the most frequently encountered diseases in the general population, relatively few studies have been conducted on this health condition. The published data are limited on the frequency of TTHA in Turkey, and no studies to date have been initiated on the prevalence of TTHA in the city of Erzurum or the Eastern Anatolian Region. MATERIAL...

Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is an important alternate oilseed crop in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. No information on plant density for rapeseed is available in this region. Therefore a study was initiated to investigate the effects of spacings between rows and spacings within rows on the yield and agronomic characteristics of two genotypes of spring rapeseed (Tower and Lirawell) in Erzurum, easte...

The aim of the present work is to study the chemical composition of Turkish propolis. Propolis samples were collected from different regions of Turkey (Bursa, Erzurum-Askale, Gumushane-Sogutagil and Trabzon-Caglayan) in 1999. Ethanol extracts of propolis (EEP) were prepared for chemical analysis, using gas chromatograph coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Our findings show that propolis sam...