Fisherman`s Waders sign is caused by several medical conditions including venous thrombosis, portal hypertension and lymphoma. It is characterized by increased uptake of radiotracer in soft tissues below the mid-thorax level with normal tracer clearance above that level in bone s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/22085
Goldenhar syndrome (GS) is a poly-malformation syndrome, also defined as oculo-auricolo-vertebral dysplasia with hemifacial microsomia. It is a rare congenital defect involving first and second branchial arches. The aetiology is not known. The most supported hypothesis is based o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21666
Metastatic tumors of the stomach are very rare, with an incidence of 0, 2%- 0, 7% in the autopsy series. Malignant melanoma, carcinomas of breast, esophagus and lung are the most frequent primary tumor sites. The present case describes a 57-year-old woman who presented to the gas...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20203
Eigenvalues are a special set of scalars associated with a linear system of equations, that are sometimes also known as characteristic roots. In this work, a Java-based algorithm is developed to find the eigenvalues for Toeplitz matrices using Adomian’s decomposition method (shor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21872
Aims: The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence and characteristics of Chlamydia trachomatis infections in a group of women visiting different Units in a referral Hospital from Spain Study Design: This was a hospital retrospective and descriptive study for the pr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19542
Aims: To determine the lung function of cleaners exposed to particulate matter of aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 micrometer (PM2.5) in the streets and offices in Lusaka, Zambia. Study Design: This was a cross sectional study between two groups. Place and Duration of Study: Lu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20719
Aims: To identify the factors that can predict the development of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) among patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in Basrah. Materials and Methods: Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in the emergency units of Al-Faiha General Hosp...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21384
In this work, we are studying about a special oscillator system, which consists of one spring and a magnet-mass. The system is placed in nonlinear magnetic field, produced by two other permanent magnets, which are oriented for attraction, where can appear different types of oscil...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/20083
In this paper, we investigate the effect of the mean curvature of the boundary ∂Ω on the behavior of the blow-up solutions to the p-Laplacian type quasilinear elliptic equation div(|∇u|p-2∇u) = um|∇u|, p > 1, where the Ω ∈ RN be a boun...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/20768
Cancer therapy has been a major scientific and medical focus for decades, treatment of which has proven to be a challenging task, especially in the light of its escalating incidence all over the globe. The material and moral costs of understanding the nature of the disease and fi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21795
Background: Sickle cell disease which is considered to be a hypercoagulable state has a worldwide distribution. Protein C is a naturally occurring anticoagulant with anti inflammatory and fibrinolytic properties. Objective: To evaluate the level of Protein C in Nigerian Patients...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21539
Traditionally, the main model of the pharmaceutical industry for developing new drugs has been based on monotherapies, new molecular entities (NMEs), and their underlying one-target-one-disease dogma. It is no surprise that closely related fields such as the cosmeceutical and nut...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/18997
Mucormycosis is an emerging and slowly rising fatal infectious disease in most countries. It is the third most common invasive mycosis after candidiasis and aspergillosis. Hematologic malignancies notably acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) and diabetes mellitus (DM) especially whe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19714
Introduction: Well Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WDTC) represents 80% of all thyroid malignant tumours, with good prognosis and a survival rate higher than 90% at 20 yrs. Total or subtotal thyroidectomy is the treatment of choice, with radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy reserve...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20375
Sameer Al-Ghamdi, Khaled Aldossari, Jamaan Al-Zahrani, Saad Al-Qasem, Ali Al-Gonaim, Ibrahim Al-Tamimi, Saad Al-Juhaim, Abdulrahman Al-Ghamdi & Hussain Al-Ghamdi·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2015
Aims: To estimate the prevalence, attitude and magnitude of consumption of energy drinks among health science students. To establish the relationship between consumption of energy drinks and smoking. To determine the relationship between energy drinks consumption and the students...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19808