Publications by authors named "Francu L"

In the past two decades the topic of "green jobs" has drawn particular attention, resulting in a widely diverse and relatively large number of published papers. Although a determinant for the increase of knowledge, the heterogeneity of these studies may raise the issue of a systematic documentation of the key contributions in this field. In this context, the present research focuses on analyzing the scientific literature published in the last five years on the topic of "green jobs" with the aim to identify definitions and meanings associated with the concept of "green jobs", the connected terms, areas of research interest and the main theoretical and practical results.

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Esophageal cancer has always been subject of research for various studies. According to some authors, esophageal cancer represents the 10th leading cause of cancer in the world with a 5-year survival of 10 %. In terms of anatomopathological form of the esophageal neoplasia, the literature mainly describes two major pathological types: adenocarcinoma and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

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Morphological alterations of peritoneum in chronically dialyzed patients involve fibrosis and angiogenesis as pathogenic mechanisms. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate morphological changes of peritoneum in chronic peritoneal dialysis (PD) at 4, 8, 12, and 14 years. Peritoneal changes were investigated in 110 patients with end stage renal failure, which were included in a PD program.

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Twenty-two cases with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) have been studied, sized from 2 cm to invasive gigantic tumors and also from low to high degree of malignancy. The altering of the form and the size of the nucleus is a reference point of malignancy, being used in the histological grading of many types of tumors and also as an appreciating parameter of the tumoral prognosis, with a high degree of accuracy in the colorectal, uterine, prostatic or ovarian cancers, as it was pointed in the previous researches. The aim of this study is to evaluate the dimensional characteristic of the nuclei and the mitosis in GIST with a cholic and gastric localization, attempting a quantitative differentiation of the two tumors, by studying the following aspects: nuclear dimensions, mitotic activity index and the mitotic density.

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The face, seen as a unitary region is subject to the gravitational force. Since it is the main relational and socialization region of each individual, it presents unique ways of suspension. The elevation system of the face is complex, and it includes four different elements: the continuity with the epicranial fascia, the adhesion of superficial structures to the peri- and inter-orbital mimic muscles, ligaments adhesions and fixing ligaments of the superficial layers to the zygomatic process, and also to the facial fat pad.

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Rectum is divided into three distinctive regions (pelvic peritoneal, pelvic subperitoneal and perineal) regarding the regions where it is crossing through. Those three parts are individually not only due to their relation but due to their blood supply, also. The differences occur among them when one of them is involved into a neoplastic process.

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In the last decade has seen an increase in hiatal hernia diagnosis. These issues led us to study and deepen the anatomic substrate of the changes that occur in the diaphragm muscle and periesophageal structures for optimum management of the disorder. The studied material was represented by fragments of the thoraco-abdominal diaphragm and tissues around the esophagus, biopsy sampling by classic open approach or celioscopic in patients with hiatal hernia, compared with a control group.

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This paper presents the results of a surgical and histopathological study regarding the microanatomical modifications of the thoraco-abdominal diaphragm and of the peri-esophageal structures in the hiatal hernias, establishing a cause-effect relationship between these structural modifications and the hiatal hernia. The study was represented by two groups of patients: a control group and a group with hiatal hernia. The study method consisted in intraoperatory biopsy of fragments from the diaphragm as well as from the tissue around the esophagus, which were studied from the histopathological viewpoint, using histological methods and quantitative microanatomy.

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The giant bone cell tumour is a benign osteolitical tumour of spongious tissue. The evolving characters claimed the identification of the high-risk tumours for improving the prognostics. There were used samples of primitive tumours from 69 patients, paraffin included and coloured H&E and then examined with interactive digital video software.

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The irradiant cervico-facial therapy produces numerous complications in maxillo-facial territory, among which the most frequent are: xerostomia, osteonecrosis, mucosal degeneration and severe rampant caries. This is the reason why a written report must exist between the dentist and the radiologist, with all data of the radiological treatment, which implies the patient follow-up from a stomatologic point of view before, during and after the application of the irradiate treatment. We studied a group of patients that followed an X-ray treatment, determining the salivary flow, the physical and chemical feature of the saliva and bacterial flora before, during the X-ray treatment with different doses and at the end of the treatment and at certain periods of time.

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Studying through clinical and laboratory means the bucco-dental status of the 28 patients who followed radiotherapeutical cures in the cervico-facial territory, the authors establish the apparition, at different periods of time, of the rampant caries. The rampant caries have been found in 46.42 percent of the cases, especially in patients exposed to prolonged or repeated cures of cervico-facial radiotherapy (88.

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