Flesh of 141 fish specimens collected along the southern coast of New Caledonia, close to the mining industry Prony Resources New Caledonia, were analyzed for 10 elements (As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Ni and Zn). The leopard coral grouper Plectopomus leopardus revealed significant spatial variations for Cr, Fe, Mn and Zn and size-dependent accumulation of Hg. Sanitary risk assessment suggests that Hg and Me-Hg could potentially be a concern for heavy fish consumers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In many studies on documentation, the data are self-reported, which makes it difficult to know the actual level of documentation by pharmacists in patients' medical records. The literature assessing documentation by clinical pharmacists in health care centres is limited.
Objective: To assess the level of documentation in patients' medical records by clinical pharmacists at one large urban hospital.
Anthropogenic activities such as land-use change, pollution and fishing impact the trophic structure of coral reef fishes, which can influence ecosystem health and function. Although these impacts may be ubiquitous, they are not consistent across the tropical Pacific Ocean. Using an extensive database of fish biomass sampled using underwater visual transects on coral reefs, we modelled the impact of human activities on food webs at Pacific-wide and regional (1,000s-10,000s km) scales.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the case of a 69-year-old man who presented with an adrenal angiosarcoma which had been discovered during prostatic adenocarcinoma staging. Twenty-two cases have been reported in the literature. All of them were of epithelioid type.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs opposed to congenital anomalies, the anatomical variations, as well as the modal type, are issued from a normal morphological development. The variations of division of extra-hepatic biliary ducts are very frequent. They are clearly explained by the sequence of embryological development in man, and also by compared anatomy.
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