Off-axis view radiographs for assessing hallux valgus interphalangeus in hallux valgus deformity: A comparison with the traditional anteroposterior standing radiographs.

Background: The newly described anteroposterior "off-axis view" (OAV) radiograph might help detect a hallux valgus interphalangeus (HVI) deformity more precisely compared to anteroposterior standing radiographs.

Methods: A radiographic assessment of HVI angles was performed using preoperative standing anteroposterior and OAV radiographs for 67 ft. Intra- and interobserver agreement for all angles and their correlation with HV severity were analyzed.

A cross-linguistic comparison of category and letter fluency: Mandarin and English.

Verbal fluency tasks are widely applied in a variety of languages, but whether the quality and quantity of responses are comparable across structurally different writing systems is debatable. For example, since there are no letters in a logographic, non-alphabetic language such as Chinese, the mechanisms speakers use to generate a list of words in a letter fluency task might be structurally different than those used by speakers of alphabetic languages. In this study, we investigated lexical retrieval strategies and approaches in letter and category fluency tasks among monolingual Mandarin speakers compared to monolingual English speakers.

In search for increased prevalence rates of strabismus and microstrabismus in two Bavarian districts, Oberpfalz and Niederbayern, to spot populations for gene identification.

Purpose: This study was intended to identify communities with an increased prevalence rate of inherited eye diseases (different forms of strabismus, juvenile maculopathy, AMD, myopia magna, etc.) in the districts Oberpfalz (Opf.) and Niederbayern (Ndb.

Ovarian enzymatic divergence in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome excreting urinary pregnanetriolone.

When ovarian mitochondria from patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (POS) were incubated with [7-3H]17alpha-hydroxypregnenolone and [4-14C]-17alpha-hydroxyprogesterone, 11beta-hydroxylated metabolites were obtained. The mitochondria, prepared from pooled, frozen, polycystic ovarian tissue of 5 patients, converted [7-3H]17alpha-hydroxypregnenolone to 3beta, 11beta, 17alpha--trihydroxy-5-pregnen-20-one (yield 0.065%) and to 3beta, 17alpha-dihydroxy-5-pregnene-11,20-dione (0.

A prospective clinicopathological study of 1,108 cases of antenatal fetal death.

A prospective clinicopathological study of antenatal fetal death (AFD) showed that in most cases multiple factors were involved and that in about 70% of the cases maternal diseases were responsible for AFD. The main causes of AFD appeared to be toxemia of pregnancy, various diabetic conditions of the mother (60% of the cases), and blood group incompatibility. Closer and more frequent supervision of pregnant women attending the antenatal clinics will enable earlier detection of maternal disease, and thus may be important in preventing AFD.