… However, during our preliminary studies (Wood & Richardson 1980), it became apparent
that wastage from manufacturing units was likely to contribute only marginally to the overall …

The Framing Camera (FC) is the German contribution to the Dawn mission. The camera will
map 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres through a clear filter and 7 band-pass filters covering the …

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is now considered the “gold standard” operation for patients
with gallstone disease. A number of patients require conversion to an open cholecystectomy …

A valid measure of rhinosinusitis health status and quality of life is required for the complete
assessment of treatment effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to analyze the …

The extent to which microbiota alterations define or influence the outcome of metabolic
diseases is still unclear, but the byproducts of microbiota metabolism are known to have an …

Background Controversy exists regarding the aggressiveness of initial therapy in childhood
papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). Few studies with long-term outcome exist and second …

… We also noticed considerable variability in the mean preoperative PTH values found in the
studies included in this analysis, with values ranging from 40 to 70 pg/mL. To control for the …

… It was clearly pointed out by our secretary, Richard Thirlby, at the WSA meeting in Chicago,
that we only have a short 4-day window of opportunity to use the laparoscopic approach in …

… 0.6 ng/mL/h and for statistical analyses, PRA was set at 0.6 ng/mL/h for those PRA values
reported as less than 0.6 ng/mL/h. … PRA less than 0.6 ng/mL/h was the lower limit of detection. …

Background: Historical outcomes in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) are poor, with a
median survival of only 5 months and <20% of patients surviving 1 year from diagnosis. We …