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J Eval Clin Pract
June 2024
School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.
Background: A large number of illnesses that lack physical visibility are characterised by troubled clinical encounters. Endometriosis is one such condition with very real and often debilitating symptoms that remain invisible to the clinician's eye, but are experienced and lived by the patient.
Method: This paper probes into two first person accounts of endometriosis to find out how endometriosis patients experience health care.
J Surg Case Rep
February 2023
Department of Surgery, Trauma Surgery, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
Isolated pancreatic transection is a rare surgical condition that occurs more commonly following blunt abdominal trauma. It carries a high degree of morbidity and mortality, and the management remains a source of debate as universally accepted guidelines are not well established owing to the paucity in clinical experience and large series. We presented a case of an isolated pancreatic transection following blunt abdominal trauma.
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March 2022
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e Della Toscana 'M. Aleandri', Via Appia Nuova 1411, 00178, Rome, Italy.
Background: The Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus (Skuse 1894), which is native to Southeast Asia, is among the top 100 invasive species worldwide and one of the most troubling vector species. It has become established in more than 20 European countries. Since its arrival in Italy in the 1990s, the species has colonized all the regions of the country, up to an altitude of 600 m.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDry deciduous dipterocarp forests (DDF) cover about 15%-20% of Southeast Asia and are the most threatened forest type in the region. The jungle cat () is a DDF specialist that occurs only in small isolated populations in Southeast Asia. Despite being one of the rarest felids in the region, almost nothing is known about its ecology.
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June 2015
UDEIP, centre de dépistage et de prise en charge des troubles psychiatriques d'origine génétique, centre hospitalier le Vinatier, 95, boulevard Pinel, 69678 Bron cedex, France; Centre de neurosciences cognitives, UMR 5229 CNRS, 69500 Bron, France; Université Lyon 1, 69500 Lyon, France.
Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS) is a genetic disorder characterized by the association of facial dysmorphism, oral speech delay, as well as behavioral and sleep/wake circadian rhythm disorders. Most SMS cases (90%) are due to a 17p11.2 deletion encompassing the RAI1 gene; other cases stem from mutations of the RAI1 gene.
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