Correlations between histological subtypes and neurocognitive assessment of language area tumors. Our 43 case series and review of the literature.

Background: Brain tumor location is related with specific, focal neurological impairment, but also with more diffuse, generalized and subtitle neurocognitive dysfunctions. For a better evaluation of these cases, we need a specific battery of tests. Beside the impact of preoperative status on surgical decision, the quantification of postoperative function alteration is essential in neurorehabilitation.

A novel combination of double primary malignancies: penile carcinoma and glioblastoma. A series of two cases.

Aim: Penile squamous cell carcinoma (pSCC) and glioblastoma (GB) are rare malignant tumors that develop especially in the elderly. The aim of our paper is to present two patients diagnosed and treated for a cerebral GB developed after a prior pSCC and to discuss the possible mechanism of their association.

Patients, Materials, And Methods: The medical records of 632 patients admitted for a GB in the Department of Neurosurgery, "Prof.

Inflammatory juvenile compound conjunctival nevi. A clinicopathological study and literature review.

Aim: The conjunctival nevus affecting children and adolescents is a rare condition and the literature showed only few reports on this issue. The aim of this article is to determine the histopathological features for the correct diagnosis of an inflammatory juvenile compound nevus of the conjunctiva (IJCNC) in order to make the difference between this tumor and other lesions, like conjunctival melanoma or lymphoma, very similar from a gross point of view. This article is a clinical pathological study of two cases of IJCNC with particular histopathological characteristics, who were admitted at the 2nd Ophthalmology Clinic, "Prof.

Cytological, histopathological and immunological aspects of autoimmune thyroiditis: a review.

Autoimmune thyroiditis (AT) is a disease that may be associated with many other autoimmune endocrine and non-endocrine disorders. This disease is mediated by both humoral and cellular mechanisms and it is the result of combined effects of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II genes and non-HLA genes polymorphisms. The clinical course of AT is variable and may be characterized by spontaneous remission and by irreversible thyroid insufficiency as the consequence of atrophic and fibrous transformation of the thyroid gland in other cases.

A 16-year retrospective study of dacryocystitis in adult patients in the Moldavia Region, Romania.

Purpose: Chronic dacryocystitis (CD) is an inflammation of the lacrimal sac and nasolacrimal duct with a long-standing evolution. The aims of this study were to analyze the epidemiology and to evaluate the histopathological features and the chronic inflammation score (CIS) system of chronic dacryocystitis in the region of Moldavia, Romania, over a period of 16 years.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective descriptive analysis of all pathological reports of chronic dacryocystitis from the Department of Pathology, "Prof.

Aspects regarding the hygienic-sanitary conditions at the level of certain dental medicine cabinets in Iasi County.

Aim: This baseline study aims to find out the evaluation of hygienic-sanitary conditions at the level of dental medicine cabinets through the verification of certain hygienic aspects.

Material And Methods: The study conducted consists in monitoring the hygienic/sanitary conditions at the level of 68 dental medicine cabinets (40 private cabinets and 28 school/university dental cabinets in Iasi county), using sheets for the assessment of the hygienic/sanitary conditions adapted from the control sheets of existing dental medicine cabinets at the level of DSP (Public Health Department) Iasi.

Results And Discussion: The sheets for the assessment of the hygienic/sanitary conditions were evaluated by a specialized team and the results were i llustrated in the specific charts.

[Relashionship between the mother's educational level and child feeding in a series of preschool children in Bacau Town].

Unlabelled: Child growth and development are decisively influensed by feeding. This depends on parent's financial resources and food habits, most often tradition-related.

Aim: To determine how important mother's educational level is in this respect.

The prognosis of posterior urethral valves, associated to vesicoureteral reflux in children.

Posterior urethral valves represent a congenital barrier at the level of the posterior urethra, which opposes miction. They are located near the prostatic urethra, originating at the verumontanum level, affecting male patients. The ureters are inconstantly dilated; vesicoureteral reflux is met in 2/3 of the cases.

[Assessment of consumer satisfaction with public health and medical services in the city of Iaşi].

Aim: The study was designed to assess patient satisfaction regarding the quality of medical care delivered in 2010, the financial accessibility of the used services, the time span accessibility to the services used, doctor-patient relationship, and quality of health services.

Materials And Method: This study was carried out on a series of 150 randomly selected patients, age-range l8 to 70 years. These patients were asked to fill out a 44-item questionnaire including demographic data (age, education, environment--rural or urban area, difficult financial situation) and questions on the quality of the delivered medical care and the performance of the qualified medical staff.

[Diagnostic and treatment algorithm for pharyngolaryngeal reflux].

Pharyngolaryngeal reflux (PLR) refers to backflow of stomach contents into the throat and larynx. Its diagnosis is difficult because of a variety of atypical symptoms, low sensitivity of traditional tests of gastrointestinal tract, and no consensus on the diagnostic algorithm. The aim of this study was to provide an algorithm for the diagnosis and treatment of PLR.

[Public health in Orhei County--realities and opportunities].

Orhei District Hospital has 420 beds located in 17 wards. Providing beds in 2010 is 39.2 to 10 000 people compared with 47.

[Food intake--family income in a group of teenagers from Iaşi "Dimitrie Cantemir" High School].

Unlabelled: Food intake is influenced by a series of factors, including family, income, school and mass-media.

Material And Method: A group of 78 teenagers were investigated using a food intake questionary, correlating the results with family income.

Results: Our results show that the food intake is influenced more by family dietary habits rather than family income, with no significant differences between families with different socio-economic status.

[Family income--nutrition correlation in a group of Negreşti Vaslui preschool children].

Unlabelled: Growth and development are influenced by genetic and environmental factors. From the environmental factors, nutrition plays a key role and is income dependent.

Objectives: Assessing food intake according to family financial status.

[Average vegetable intake in a group of schoolchildren from Iaşi].

Unlabelled: Nutritional guidance must take into account the existing situation in order to obtain the desired effects.

Material And Method: Vegetable intake was assessed using a questionary for 127 teenagers (49 boys and 78 girls) from two high-schools in Iaşi.

Results: More than 80% of teenagers use vegetables on a daily base and almost 50% in adequate amount.

[Fruit consumption in a group of teenagers from Iaşi].

Unlabelled: A goal for the national nutritional education program is represented by the increase of fruit consumption.

Material And Method: Using specially designed questionaries a group of 127 teenagers from two different Iaşi high schools provided date related to thei daily fruit intake.

Results: Almost 40% of the teenagers use fresh fruits as part of their breakfast and a greater number use them as snacks (57.

The study of some polyphenolic compounds from Melissa officinalis L. (Lamiaceae).

Unlabelled: We proposed the analyses of polyphenolic coumpounds from the Melissa officinalis L. (Lamiaceae) leaves obtained from Medicinal Plant Collection of USAMV Cluj-Napoca.

Material And Method: The study was performed by using spectrophotometric (I) and HPLC methods (II).

[Anthropological study on hearing deficit].

Unlabelled: Professional training of hearing impaired persons is conditioned by the stage of psychologic development and by educational level.

Material And Method: The study was carried out on a series of 142 children (87 girls and 55 boys) aged 12 to 17 years with hearing deficit from a special school for deaf.

Results: The distribution of these children according to their parents being deaf or not, skills, constitution, intensity of voice was analyzed.

[Comparative study of the intake of energy nutrients by elderly institutionalized people from Galaţi city].

Unlabelled: In this study we have analyzed, by comparison, the quality of nutrient intake at different groups of elderly institutionalized persons, in order to identify if there are significant differences between the nutrition provided in these institutions.

Material And Method: The nutrition of 313 elderly persons was analyzed retrospective, along a period of 5 years (2002-2006), in three different locations from Galati city, using the standardized nutritional inquiry protocol. Statistical assessment was realized with program EpInfo 3.

Nutrigenomics in postgenomic era.

The last years modified major our conceptions about nutrition. These revolutionary changes were produced by implementation of new techniques of functional genomics. The nutrigenomics and nutrigenomics provide powerful approaches to unravel the complex relationships between bioactive molecules, genetic polymorphisms and biological system and can give rise to personalized nutrition and dietary recommendations.

[Experimental study regarding the involvement of vitamins in the development of the dentomaxilar system].

The severe deficiencies of maternal nutrition in vitamins, both before and during pregnancy, might induce severe alterations of developing teeth in embryos and very young rats. Thus, the morphologic analysis of embryonic preparations revealed blood vessels slightly widen out, without turgescence, increased cellular density with oedema of the conjunctive tissue, foamy aspect of cells from mesenchyma. The adult preparations presented decreased cellular density with important fibrosis and presence of foamy cells, lack of dentine formation with small and diffuse proteinic accumulations, rarefied blood vessels, lack of enamel formation.

Maternal death and orphans in Cluj County.

Unlabelled: The communist government that led Romania before the 1989 Revolution practiced a demographic policy which claimed to protect the family and encouraged women to have minimum five children.

Material And Methods: The complex implications of maternal death rate, as a negative demographic phenomenon, were investigated through a descriptive, observational retrospective study made in the Cluj County, Romania, between 1970 and 2004. The study covers all deceased mothers (n = 263 cases) recorded in Cluj County from 1970 to 2004.

[Food intake patterns in a mentally disabled children's community].

Aim: To asses the food intake in a closed community of mentally disabled school children.

Material And Method: The dietary survey was performed according to the ongoing romanian regulations, taking into account 11 food groups.

Results: Each of the four dietary surveys showed that certain food groups are present in the diet in very small quantities (such as fish, milk, animal fat, eggs, fruits) and other are present in excess (potatoes, cereals, oils, dry vegetables), not regarding the season of the dietary survey.