Occipital Condyle Fracture: A Case Report of a Typically Stable Fracture That Required Surgical Treatment by Takeshi Suzuki, Satoshi Maki, Masaaki Aramomi, Tomonori Yamauchi, Manato Horii, Koui Kawamura, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Seiji Ohtori

“…We report a patient who had a nondisplaced OCF with craniocervical misalignment (a condyle-C1 interval > 2.0 mm) and C1-C2 translation treated with a halo vest and occipitocervical fusion surgery. An 87-year-old Asian woman fell from a 4-meter height and hit her head. …”
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Assessment of Tear Film Quality among Smokers Using Tear Ferning Patterns by Ali M. Masmali, Adil Al-Shehri, Saud A. Alanazi, Ali Abusharaha, Raied Fagehi, Gamal A. El-Hiti

“…Thirty healthy young male cigarette smokers (20–38 years old) and 30 healthy age matched nonsmokers were enrolled in the study. …”
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A Case of Adenomatous Goiter Involving Diffuse, Acute, and Painful Thyroid Enlargement after Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology by Toshiro Shimo, Katsuhiro Tanaka, Ryohei Ogata, Wataru Saito, Yusuke Ohta, Yoshikazu Koike, Tetsumasa Yamashita, Yutaka Yamamoto, Junichi Kurebayashi

“…The patient was a 44-year-old woman who exhibited a diffuse goiter during health screening. …”
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Case report: The Montgomery T tube may be the preferred transition option for achieving a smooth extubation after tracheotomy when complicating airway pathology is present by Jieqiong Wang, Xun Li, Weihua Xu, Nenghui Jiang, Bo Yang, Ming Chen

“…Herein, we present an efficacious strategy addressing these airway morbidities and facilitating rapid tube removal. A 44-year-old male patient, who had undergone tracheostomy due to underlying disease, demonstrated substantial recovery following rehabilitation and was poised for tracheostomy tube extraction. …”
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Silicon Application Increases Drought Tolerance of Kentucky Bluegrass by Improving Plant Water Relations and Morphophysiological Functions by Shah Saud, Xin Li, Yang Chen, Lu Zhang, Shah Fahad, Saddam Hussain, Arooj Sadiq, Yajun Chen

“…Drought stress and four levels (0, 200, 400, and 800 mg L−1) of Si (Na2SiO3·9H2O) were imposed after 2 months old plants cultured under glasshouse conditions. …”
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Anatomical and Visual Outcomes after LASIK Performed in Myopic Eyes with the WaveLight® Refractive Suite (Alcon® Laboratories Inc., USA) by Imene Salah-Mabed, Sarah Moran, Emmanuelle Perez, Guillaume Debellemanière, Damien Gatinel

“…We examined 60 myopic eyes (average SE −4.5 D, from −9.3 to −0.75 D) of 30 patients from 21.3 to 38.7 years old. Pachymetry, keratometry, Q factor, corneal aberrations, visual acuity (VA), contrast sensitivity, dry eye assessment, and quality of vision were measured preoperatively, one day (D1), and 1, 3, and 6 months postoperatively. …”
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An X-Linked Hyper-IgM Patient Followed Successfully for 23 Years without Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation by Necil Kutukculer, Neslihan Edeer Karaca, Guzide Aksu, Ayca Aykut, Erhan Pariltay, Ozgur Cogulu

“…For patients with X-linked hyper-IgM syndrome (XHIGM), the treatment modality has to be decided for a particular patient regarding hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or intravenous immunoglobulin replacement therapy with P. jiroveci prophylaxis. A seven-year-old male patient was admitted with recurrent upper and lower respiratory tract infections and recurrent otitis media. …”
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Genome Characterization of Mammalian Orthoreovirus and Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Isolated from the Same Fattening Pig by Xiaoxuan Li, Jiakai Zhao, Jingjie Li, Yangzong Xiri, Zhixiang Liu, Qin Zhao, Yani Sun

“…In 2020, severe diarrhea occurred in four-month-old fattening pigs from nine farms in Shandong Province, China. …”
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Immune Thrombocytopenia in a worker exposed to toluene: a case report by Eric Slawka, Margarida Lourenço Castelló, Gabriel Machado Romão da Silva, Angelica dos Santos Vianna

“…Herein, we report a case of ITP in a patient with long-term low-level exposure to toluene in the workplace.Case Report: A 34-year-old white female chemistry technician presented to a teaching hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2002, with a 2-year history of isolated thrombocytopenia, and low-level occupational exposure to toluene for more than a decade. …”
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Effect of Zbtb33 gene knockout and bacterial lipopolysaccharide on home cage behavior in mice by N. V. Khotskin, I. E. Sorokin, E. A. Kulikova, A. V.  Kulikov

“…All animals were 11 weeks old, weighed 26 ± 1 g and had SPF (specific pathogen free) status throughout the experiment. …”
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Prevalence and Distribution of Nonsyndromic Dental Anomalies in Children in Eastern Saudi Arabia: A Radiographic Study by Eman A. Bakhurji, Fatima Aldossary, Jood Aljarbo, Fatimah AlMuhammadi, Maysaa Alghamdi, Muhammad Ashraf Nazir

“…This retrospective records review study involved radiographic examination of 6–18 years old pediatric patients who attended the Dental Hospital of the College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. …”
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Colchicine Does Not Reduce Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Growth in a Mouse Model by James Phie, Shivshankar Thanigaimani, Pacific Huynh, Raghuveeran Anbalagan, Corey S. Moran, Robert Kinobe, Joseph V. Moxon, Matt A. Field, Smriti M. Krishna, Jonathan Golledge

“…AAA was induced in eight-week-old male C57BL6/J mice with topical application of elastase to the infrarenal aorta and oral 3-aminopropionitrile (E-BAPN). …”
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Acute Coronary Syndrome in Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Maturation Accompanying Megakaryocytic Differentiation by Kentaro Odani, Junya Abe, Yoshiaki Tsuyuki, Soshi Yanagita, Kazuya Shiogama, Mitsuhiro Tachibana, Yutaka Tsutsumi

“…An autopsy case (85-year-old Japanese male) of myeloperoxidase- (MPO-) positive acute myeloid leukemia with maturation (M1) accompanying megakaryocytic differentiation is presented. …”
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Chemoradiotherapy in a Case of Malignant Syringocystadenocarcinoma Papilliferum of Vulva with Locoregional Failure by Pamidimukkala Bramhananda Rao, Saptarshi Ghosh, Manisha Mohapatra, N. Pramod Philip, P. Ravindra Kumar, Surendra Manam, Pradeep Karra, Vijay Krishna Jasti

“…Case Report. A 57-year-old female patient who presented to our Oncology Department with a recurrent malignant SCACP of the left labia along with right inguinal lymphadenopathy. …”
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10-Year Changes in Adiposity in Cameroon School-Age Children: Evidence for Increasing Central Adiposity and Higher Adiposity Levels in Tallest-for-Age Children by Lifoter K. Navti, Brice U. S. Foudjo

“…To examine changes in measures of adiposity and determine the prevalence of excess adiposity in relation to height in school children between 2010 and 2020. Methods. 5–12-year-old urban school-age children participated in two cross-sectional surveys in 2010 (n = 1274) and 2020 (n = 1550). …”
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Impact of lens autofluorescence and opacification on retinal imaging by Frank G Holz, Maximilian Pfau, Monika Fleckenstein, Raffael Liegl, Geena C Rennen, Marc Vaisband, Jan Hasenauer

“…Here, we report both lens opacification and AF metrics and the effect on automated image quality assessment.Methods 227 subjects (range: 19–89 years old) received quantitative AF of the lens (LQAF), Scheimpflug, anterior chamber optical coherence tomography as well as blue/green FAF (BAF/GAF), and infrared (IR) imaging. …”
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Reconstruction of a Large Groin Defect using Pedicled Chimeric Tensor Fascia Lata and Vastus Lateralis Muscle Flaps Following Malignant Melanoma Excision: A Case Report by Archita N Rai, Swati Deshpande, Firoz Borle, Raju Shinde, Aditya Kale

“…The reconstruction of large oncologic defects, especially in the groin region, poses significant surgical challenges due to the exposure of vital structures such as the femoral vessels. A 68-year-old male, previously treated for melanoma of the left foot, presented with a recurrent swelling in the left inguinal region. …”
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Ajouts, omissions, substitutions : la main fautive des copistes dans le texte de L’Éducation sentimentale by Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Déborah Boltz

“…“Finished! Old friend! Yes, this book of mine is finished … I have been at my table since yesterday, eight o’clock in the morning. …”
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Protective Role of Picralima nitida Seed Extract in High-Fat High-Fructose-Fed Rats by Opeyemi Christianah De Campos, Daniel Ikpomwosa Osaigbovo, Titilayo Ifeoluwa Bisi-Adeniyi, Franklyn Nonso Iheagwam, Solomon Oladapo Rotimi, Shalom Nwodo Chinedu

“…Experimental rats (2 months old) were fed a control diet or a high-fat diet with 25% fructose (HFHF diet) in their drinking water for nine weeks. …”
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Multiple rare abdominal aortic branch variations in the case of a centenarian woman. Case report and review of the literature by Michela Vincis, Claire Lewis, Denis Barry, Marcello Trucas

“…As part of routine anatomical dissection, we identified multiple rare aortic vessel variants in a cadaveric female with associated visceral adaptations. Methods: A 99-year-old formalin embalmed female donor was dissected at the Discipline of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin. …”
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