20 results match your criteria: "Hospital August 20[Affiliation]"
Stud Health Technol Inform
August 2024
Medical Informatic department, Hospital August 20, Casablanca, Morocco.
Introduction: The vital importance of engaging in physical activity for the maintenance and improvement of health is undeniable. The advent of digital technology has significantly enhanced the encouragement of physical activity (PA) through numerous interventions. Our study's goal is to examine the usage and prescription practices of mobile applications and fitness trackers by doctors operating in the private sector.
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October 2023
Medical Informatic department, Hospital August 20, Casablanca. Morocco.
Introduction: Family planning reduces maternal and child morbidity and mortality by promoting pregnancy spacing. The postpartum period is an ideal time for patients to access family planning services. Mobile applications can aid in accessing information about family planning.
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October 2023
Medical Informatic department, Hospital August 20, Casablanca, Morocco.
Introduction: Research and development in artificial intelligence (AI) has increased dramatically over the past decade, with all areas of life being affected and particularly the medical field. It is with this in mind that this study focused on the perceptions of AI by physicians at the University Hospital of Casablanca in Morocco.
Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted among physicians at the University Hospital of Casablanca in April 2023.
Stud Health Technol Inform
October 2023
Medical Informatic Department, Hospital August 20, Casablanca, Morocco.
The Moroccan healthcare system is facing several challenges in ensuring equitable access to quality services and reducing or at least controlling their rising cost. Telemedicine can address these two needs by optimizing the use of existing human and material resources through telecommunications. Today, the gradual increase in the population's healthcare needs poses a major challenge to the Moroccan healthcare system, given the shortage of personnel in healthcare facilities and the persistent difficulties in accessing certain regions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Proteomics
November 2022
Laboratory of Biochemistry, Environment and Agrifood (URAC 36), Faculty of Science and Technology, Mohammedia-University Hassan II of Casablanca, Mohammedia, Morocco.
Background: Regulatory degradation of intracellular proteins plays an essential role in most biological processes, particularly in the control of cell proliferation and differentiation. In eukaryotes, intracellular proteolysis is largely provided by the Ubiquitin / Proteasome system. Alterations and dysfunction of protein degradation by the Ubiquitin / Proteasome system, such as transcription factors, cell cycle regulators or tumor suppressor proteins, have been linked to human.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAllergy Rhinol (Providence)
August 2021
ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital August 20 1953, University Hospital Center Ibn Rochd, Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco, University Hospital Center IBN ROCHD, Casablanca, Morocco.
J Med Case Rep
August 2021
Hematology and Oncology Pediatric Department, Hospital August 20, 1953, 6 Rue Lahcen Al Arjoun, Casablanca, Morocco.
Background: Xeroderma pigmentosum is a rare inherited disease characterized by extreme hypersensitivity to ultraviolet rays and predisposing to cutaneous malignancies that can appear in childhood. These manifestations are often associated with ocular lesions and sometimes with neurological disorders. The association of xeroderma pigmentosum with internal neoplasms such as acute myeloblastic leukemia is not reported with great frequency, which confirms the rarity of this occurrence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Surg Case Rep
June 2021
ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital August 20, 1953, Ibn Rochd Teaching Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco.
Introduction: Abnormalities of the fourth branchial arch are less common than those of the second arch and usually present with inflammation of the left thyroid lobe.
Case Presentation: We report the case of a 10 years old girl who presented to our department with recurrent cervical cellulitis, and who was diagnosed, upon endoscopic exploration, with a left sinus pyriform fistula. The patient was treated using mini-invasive surgery by electrocoagulation, with good clinical outcome.
Int J Surg Case Rep
May 2021
ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital August 20, 1953, Ibn Rochd Teaching Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco. Electronic address:
Introduction: Leiomyosarcoma is a rare mesenchymal tumor that originates from smooth muscle cells. Head and neck LMSs represent only 3% of all leiomyosarcomas with less than 50 cases of laryngeal LMS reported in the literature till now.
Case Presentation: We report a case of 50-year-old male presented at our ENT department for a chronic hoarseness.
Int J Surg Case Rep
March 2021
ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital August 20, 1953, Ibn Rochd Teaching Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco. Electronic address:
Introduction: Maxillary sinus adenoid cystic carcinoma (MSACC) is a rare malignancy with a propensity for distant metastasis CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 55 years-old male who was admitted to our department with a complaint of right nasal obstruction and anosmia. Clinical examination, radiological investigations and histopathological examination found a mass compatible with advanced adenoid cystic carcinoma of the right maxillary sinus. Treatment consisted of radio chemotherapy.
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January 2021
ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital August 20, 1953, Ibn Rochd Teaching Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco.
Introduction: The cervical lymphoepithelial or branchial cleft cyst are benign dysembryologic cystic tumors developing in the anterolateral region of the neck. They are relatively uncommon anomalies.The aims of this study are to analyze the anatomoclinical features and to discuss the modalities of care for the management of this disease.
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November 2020
ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital August 20, 1953, Ibn Rochd Teaching Hospital, Postal Address 20000, Casablanca, Morocco. Electronic address:
Introduction: Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a malignant mesenchymal neoplasm uncommon in adults.
Presentation Of Case: We report the case of an alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma in a rare location and in an adult. It concerns a 46-year-old woman with a mandibular location invading the parotid gland.
Int J Surg Case Rep
November 2020
ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital August 20, 1953, Ibn Rochd Teaching Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco. Electronic address:
Introduction: Bezold abscess is a suppurative complication of mastoiditis that the incidence has significantly decreased in the current era due to the introduction of antibiotics.
Presentation Of Case: We discuss the case of a 62-year-old male who developed Bezold abscess following a right mastoiditis. He presented with laterocervical swelling.
Int J Surg Case Rep
January 2021
ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital August 20, 1953, Ibn Rochd Teaching Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco. Electronic address:
Introduction: Lemierre's syndrome is a rare and potentially fatal entity characterized by the spread of an oropharyngeal infection, with secondary suppurative thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein and septic emboli.
Presentation Of Case: We discuss the case of a 52-year-old male who developed Lemierre's syndrome following peritonsillar abscess. He presented with submandibular and submental swelling extending into the neck.
Ann Med Surg (Lond)
December 2020
ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital August 20, 1953, Ibn Rochd Teaching Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco.
Introduction: Malignant melanomas (MM) of the parotid gland are rather rare and when discovered in the parotid gland without an identifiable primary site, they are considered even rarer.
Presentation Of Case: We report a case of a 27 years-old woman who was admitted to our department with a complaint of a painless mass in the parotid area. Clinical examination and radiological investigations found a mass compatible with pleomorphic adenoma.
Ann Med Surg (Lond)
June 2018
ENT Department, Face and Neck Surgery, Hospital August 20'1953, University Hospital Centre IBN ROCHD, Casablanca, Morocco.
Introduction: Nasopharyngeal adenoid cystic carcinoma is a rare tumor. Compared with others nasopharyngeal tumors, it is characterised by slow evolution but it is locally aggressive and has a high tendency to recurrences. Due to the rarity of cases, no consensus exists about treatment approaches.
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June 2017
ENT Department Face and Neck surgery, Hospital August 20, 1953, University Hospital Ibn Rochd, Casablanca, Morocco.
Thyroglossal duct cysts followed by branchial cleft anomalies are the most common congenital neck masses encountered in practice, second branchial cleft cysts and sinuses are the most common type (LaRiviere and Waldhausen in Surg Clin North Am 92(3):583-597, 2012). Although both abnormalities are common individually, but rarely seen associated in same patient as described in our case. Congenitalcervical anomalies are important to consider in the differential of head and neck masses in children and adults.
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October 2016
Department of Clinical Hematology and Pediatric Oncology, Hospital August 20, 1953, University Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco.
. Venous thromboembolic disease is a common complication found in 8% of patients with acute myeloid leukemia. The location at the right atrium is exceptional.
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November 2016
ENT - Head and Neck Surgery Department, Hospital August 20, 1953, University Hospital Ibn Rushd, Casablanca, Morocco.
Int J Surg Case Rep
July 2016
ENT-Neck and Face Surgery, Hospital August 20, 1953, University Hospital IBN ROCHD, Casablanca, Morocco.
• Primitive cholesteatoma of external auditory canal (EAC) is very rare and little known disease. • There are no specific clinical symptoms which can lead to confusion with other EAC pathologies. • Its diagnosis is clinical, but in case of stenosis, evaluation requires very close radiological analysis.
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