This following article is a reprint of “Ethnomedicine and medical anthropology. A survey of developments in Germany” from “Reviews in Anthropology” 4, 4: 473–485, 1978. Thirty years ago the author analyzed the discourses in Medical Anthropology taking place in German speaking countries. He referred to important initiators of this new interdisciplinary field such as Edmund Husserl and his concep...

Background Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein (CRP) are most commonly employed acute phase reactants in follow up of patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF). As a rule CRP increases during FMF attacks but it returns to normal values in attack free periods. Persistently elevated acute phase reactants in attack free periods can be occasionally observed in patient...

Objective: The relationship between cognitive functions, EEG findings and epilepsy in patiens with ADHD is controversial. The aim of this study is to determine the frequency of EEG abnormality and its relationship with clinical findings of children with ADHD. Methods: A total of 434 children’s sleep and/or awake EEG who received the diagnosis of ADHD were taken regardless of seizure history. Re...

Carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) is a specific tumor marker of the biliary, pancreatic and gastrointestinal tracts. CA19-9 is occasionally elevated in serum in patiens with benign pulmonary diseases such as bronchiectasis, idiopathic interstitial pneumonia or collagen disease-associated pulmonary fibrosis. Intralobar pulmonary sequestration is an uncommon congenital lung anomaly. It is dissoc...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to determine the influence of the psoriatic patient knowledge of the disease on the quality of life. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was carried out in 149 patients with psoriasis. All patients answered on anonymous questionnaire, in according to Psoriasis Disability Index (PDI). RESULTS Almost 43% patients could not show any factor which provoked their disea...

EML4-ALK-positive lung cancer is a novel cancer entity associated with light or never smoking, younger age, and adenocarcinoma with acinar or signet-ring cell type histology. Another mutation of ALK with NPM, resulting in NPM-ALK fusion mutation, was described in patients with anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). It was subsequently reported in organ transplant recipients and patiens undergoi...