THORACOSCOPIC EXCISION OF MEDIASTINAL CYSTS IN CHILDREN

Thoracoscopic excision of mediastinal cysts in children

Aim: Thoracoscopy offers great advantages when compared with open surgery in terms of postoperative pain and pulmonary complications.Considering the benign nature of most of the mediastinal cysts, thoracoscopy is safe and feasible with minimal morbidity.The purpose of this article is to review our experience with four cases of mediastinal cysts res

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Tuberculosis mortality and the male survival deficit in rural South Africa: An observational community cohort study.

Women Mice Clothing live on average five years longer than men, and the sex difference in longevity is typically lower in populations with high mortality.South Africa-a high mortality population with a large sex disparity-is an exception, but the causes of death that contribute to this difference are not well understood.Using data from a demographi

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Effects of a depression-focused internet intervention in slot machine gamblers: A randomized controlled trial.

BackgroundProblematic and pathological gambling have been linked to depression.Despite a high demand for treatment and negative financial consequences, only a small fraction of problematic and pathological gamblers seek professional help.The existing treatment gap could be narrowed by providing low-threshold, Eyelash and eyebrow tint anonymous inte

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Responsiveness of blood and sputum inflammatory cells in Japanese COPD patients, non-COPD smoking controls, and non-COPD nonsmoking controls

Tomotaka Kawayama,1 Takashi Kinoshita,1 Kazuko Matsunaga,2 Akihiro Kobayashi,3 Tomoyuki Hayamizu,4 Malcolm Johnson,5 Tomoaki Hoshino11Division of Respirology, Neurology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, 2Department of Respiratory Medicine, Fukuoka Sanno Hospital, Fukuoka, 3Biomedical Data Scien

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