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Objectives: Quality-of-life issues related to chronic otitis media (COM) include physical symptoms, emotional symptoms, hearing loss, speech symptoms, social symptoms, and parents' emotional symptoms. In this study we evaluated the effects of tympanoplasty on the quality of life of pediatric patients.

Methods: In a questionnaire-based outcome study, we reviewed 56 of 78 pediatric patients with COM who were treated with type I tympanoplasty at our institution between December 2008 and February 2010.

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Objective: As the magnitude of tissue trauma can be detected by measuring the blood levels of acute phase reactants, we aimed to evaluate tissue trauma markers after abdominal hysterectomy (AH) and vaginal hysterectomy (VH). We hypothesised that VH will be associated with a reduced increase in the level of acute phase reactants than AH.

Methods: Thirty women out of 92 patients scheduled for hysterectomies between June 2002 and June 2003 were randomised into two equal groups (n = 15) of VH and AH.

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