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Pregnancy Intention and Birth Outcomes: Does the Relationship Differ by Age or Race?
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2007-05-01)
Purpose: We hypothesized that intended pregnancy is associated with decreased risk of poor birth outcomes, irrespective of age or race. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 47,956 live singleton births using ...
Factors Affecting Students' Use of MEDLINE
(Elsevier, 1993-12)
MEDLINE search transcripts by a class of third-year medical students were analyzed. The 184 students were divided into three groups according to their search experience in terms of the number of sessions logged at the time ...
A Systematic Review of Gender Differences in Mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery and Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2007-10)
Gender differences exist in outcomes, particularly early mortality, for percutaneous interventions (PCI) and coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). Better understanding of this issue may target areas for improvement ...
Mentoring for the Health Professions
(Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Company, 2001)
Mentoring can provide a new model for working with students seeking careers in the health professions. Given the growing array of health professions, mentoring programs need to recognize that the single-track premedicine ...
Useful techniques for the resection of foot melanomas
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999-04)
No abstract.
Surgical techniques: robot-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy with the da Vinci ® surgical system No conflict of interest was declared.
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006-12)
Background Advanced gynecologic pathology and the surgical limitations of conventional laparoscopy have often been cited as impediments to converting hysterectomy from a procedure predominantly performed by laparotomy to ...
Vaginal delivery after pubovaginal sling surgery
(Springer-Verlag; The International Urogynecology Journal, 1994-08)
For pregnant women who have had previous successful surgery for genuine stress urinary incontinence, an elective cesarean section is generally recommended. Many of these patients are multiparous and can be expected to have ...
Localization of preproenkephalin mRNA-expressing cells in rat auditory brainstem with in situ hybridization
(Elsevier, 1993-09)
Hair cells and auditory nerve dendrites in the inner ear are innervated by pontine neurons that have been demonstrated by immunochemical techniques to contain several neurotransmitters, including acetylcholine and the ...
Merkel cell carcinoma: Critical review with guidelines for multidisciplinary management
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-07-01)
Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a relatively rare cutaneous malignancy that occurs predominantly in the older white population. The incidence of MCC appears to have tripled during the past 20 years; an increase that is ...
The impact of factors beyond Breslow depth on predicting sentinel lymph node positivity in melanoma
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-01-01)
BACKGROUND. In addition to Breslow depth, the authors previously described how increasing mitotic rate and decreasing age predicted sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastases in patients with melanoma. The objectives of the ...