Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) and autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD) may frequently coexist in clinical practice, resulting in a complex overlapping disorder that represents a particular example of the expression of heterogeneity in patients with autoimmune disorders. Objective of this review was to describe the prevalence of the SS–AITD association in the most recent literature, exploring in particu...

This paper i)roposes an effective parsing nicthod for examlile-based machine transhltiOl~. In this method, an input string is parsed by the tOl)-down aplflication of linguistic patterns consisting o l variables and constituent boundaries. A constituent boundary is expressed by either a functional word or a l)art-of..speech bigram. When structural ambiguity occurs, the most plausible structure i...

The technique of microfracture (MFX) was first performed 40 years ago and served for many as the main procedure repairing cartilage defects. There is a need to improve microfractures because regenerated differs from original histological aspect; it less hyaline more fibrocartilaginous. In addition, importantly, benefits do not persist long-term results are unsatisfactory. Adjunctive treatments ...