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December 8, 2017

Cancer patients today live longer and have a better quality of life. This is mainly due to a multidisciplinary approach…

May 31, 2014

This review deals with the history of tuberculosis from the medical and social perspectives. It presents tuberculosis as an old…

February 17, 2014

Background. Rectal cancer is a highly treatable and often curable disease when localised. The prognosis is clearly related to the…

September 13, 2013

The hithero development of systemic treatment - cancer chemotherapy is presented and analysed. The main approaches to chemotherapy, such as…

September 6, 2013

Many cytotoxic agents used in antitumor therapies can cause a kidney damage. Therefore there is a necessity for regular kidney…

September 4, 2013

The majority of primary glomerulonephritides is mediated by the deposition of circulating or in situ formed immune complexes, which may…

August 26, 2013

With each somatic cell division, the chromosomal ends, or telomeres, progressively short­en. Critically shortened telomeres are recognised by DNA repair…

August 17, 2013

Immune interventions were introduced in the treatment of human cancer about 100 years ago. Thanks to the development of mon­oclonal…

March 2, 2014

Neonatal unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia continues to be one of the most frequent and puz­zling problems in neonatology. Ten years ago, the…

April 3, 2018

Catamenial pneumothorax is a rare form of spontaneous pneumothorax that repeatedly occurs in women of reproductive age. The exact epidemiology…

April 3, 2018

Patent foramen ovale is the most frequent remnant of normal fetal communication between the atria in adult population. In most…

March 25, 2018

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV or vascular type is a rare connective-tissue disorder caused by impaired collagen III synthesis. It occurs…

March 5, 2018

Mitral regurgitation is defined as a systolic retrograde blood flow from the left ventricle to the left atrium. Moderate or…

December 8, 2017

In the pre-antibiotic era, parapharyngeal infection was a frequent complication of tonsillitis. However, due to widespread use of antibiotics, its…

December 8, 2017

Parkinson's disease is traditionally regarded as a movement disorder caused by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal system.…

November 30, 2017

Malignant melanoma is an unpredictable, aggressive disease with the fastest growing incidence among all cancers. Its high metastatic potential and…