Department of Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Centre, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat Gan, and Tel Aviv University Medical School, Tel Aviv, Israel; Department of Haematology, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Pediatric Oncology/ Hematology, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and Division of Haematol...

We are already into the fall season with winter rapidly approaching. As always, we have many changes to report at the Diagnostic Laboratory. We ended our 1998-1999 fiscal year with a 23 percent increase in accessions compared to the previous year. We are constantly working on improving our diagnostic testing ability, frequently by using molecular techniques. Some of these new advances are detai...

Hypersecretion of parathormone in primary hyperparathyroidism is common, occurring in approximately 1 in 500 women and 1 in 2,000 men per year in their fifth to seventh decades of life. This has been suggested from the literature to be primarily the result of a parathyroid adenoma (80-85% of cases), hyperplasia involving more than 1 gland, usually with all 4 glands being involved (10-15% of cas...

OBJECTIVE Notwithstanding its widely perceived advantages, laparoscopic appendectomy has not yet met with universal acceptance. The aim of the present work is to illustrate retrospectively the results of a case-control experience with laparoscopic versus open appendectomy carried out at our institution. METHODS Between January 1993 and November 2000, 555 patients (M:F = 210:345; mean age 25.2...