Effects of color cues on eye-hand coordination training with a mirror drawing task in virtual environment.

Mirror drawing is a motor learning task that is used to evaluate and improve eye-hand coordination of users and can be implemented in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) for training purposes. In this paper, we investigated the effect of color cues on user motor performance in a mirror-drawing task between Virtual Environment (VE) and Real World (RW), with three different colors. We conducted a 5-day user study with twelve participants.

Ten Years of Experience in Contraception Options for Teenagers in a Family Planning Center in Thrace and Review of the Literature.

: : The goal of our study was to investigate and evaluate the contraceptive behavior in teenagers from our family planning centre that services two different religious and socioeconomic populations living in the Thrace area. : During the last 10 years 115 Christian Orthodox (group A) and 53 Muslim teenagers (group B) were enrolled in our retrospective study. Contraceptive practice attitudes were assessed by a questionnaire.

Predictive value of fetal scalp pH and base excess for fetal acidosis and poor neonatal outcome.

Objective: The objective of this study is to assess retrospectively the predictive value of fetal scalp pH and base excess (BE) for fetal acidosis and poor neonatal outcome in term, low-risk, spontaneous deliveries with suspicious or pathological intrapartum cardiotocography (CTG) tracings.

Methods: Umbilical artery pH and BE values obtained immediately after delivery and Apgar score were the outcomes under consideration. Statistics included receiver-operating characteristic curve (ROC) and multiple logistic regression analysis.

Ovarian reserve after fibroid embolization in premenopausal women.

Objective: To investigate the effect of uterine artery embolization (UAE) for fibroids on ovarian pool of premenopausal women.

Study Design: Prospective case control study.

Material And Methods: One-hundred and twenty premenopausal women, aged between 40 and 50 years, who underwent UAE for symptomatic uterine fibroids and the same number of women, aged between 40 and 50 years, with symptomatic uterine fibroids, who were not offered treatment were recruited for this study.

Preoperative assessment in endometrial cancer. Is triage for lymphadenectomy possible?

Purpose: We sought to examine whether a preoperative assessment with usual means, available in most hospitals (preoperative histology, pelvic MRI, serum CA-125) can confidently exclude from a full staging surgical procedure low-risk endometrial carcinoma (EC) patients according to ESMO-ESTRO-ESGO criteria (stage I endometrioid EC, grade 1 or 2, myometrial invasion <50% and negative lymphovascular space invasion).

Methods: We retrospectively identified all EC patients that underwent total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (TH-BSO) plus lymph node dissection (LND) as primary treatment for endometrioid tumors from January, 2000 to December, 2010. Extensive review was made through patients' medical records.