abstract：:Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats (Y-STRs) are useful forensic DNA markers in investigation of sexual assault cases when a mixture of male and female DNA (e.g., in vaginal swabs) is present in a sample, especially when DNA of the male contributor is present only in very small amount compared to the DNA of the female ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Parson W,Niederstätter H,Köchl S,Steinlechner M,Berger B

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There may be valuable research going on in the developing and financially less-privileged countries, but it usually does not reach international visibility, in spite of a large number of scientific journals in these countries. Such journals are not only invisible but, by perpetuating a vicious circle of inadequacy, ma...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Marusić M,Marusić A

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore the economic justification for introducing ultrasound screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip in Croatia. METHODS:The analysis was based on the two formulas: that cost-benefit equals benefit/cost, and that net benefit equals benefit minus cost. Screening costs were expressed as a sum of trainin...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Bralić I,Vrdoljak J,Kovacić L

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some aspects of the "impact factor", a quantitative measure of journals' influence on journals in scientific fields, were discussed in the preceding issue of the Croatian Medical Journal by Dr Eugene Garfield, one of its devisers. This factor can be of interest to authors, journal editors, and policy makers, but they ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Huth EJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate what Zagreb University students think about professor-student dating. METHODS:We surveyed 500 students from ten different Zagreb University schools using anonymous questionnaires. Twenty-five female and 25 male students from each school were asked to assess professor-student dating as either accepta...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pulanić D,Skunca M,Jureković R,Obadić A,Ostojić-Pulanić B,Petrovecki M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the stimulation site of both facial and hypoglossal nerves after transcranial magnetic stimulation. METHODS:After surgical exposure of the brainstem in 22 patients with intrinsic pontine (n=9) or medullary (n=13) tumors, the facial colliculus and the hypoglossal triangle were electrically stimulated. ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Liscić RM,Morota N,Deletis V

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the prevalence of bronchial asthma among Saudi Arabian schoolboys living in Al-Khobar city. METHODS:Parents of 1,482 randomly selected boys in preparatory and elementary schools included in this cross-sectional study filled out a questionnaire on asthma signs in their sons. Number of Questionnaire-Dia...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Al-Dawood K

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare sonographic measurements of fetal fat tissue in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes (GD), with patients undergoing either a diet only or a combined diet and insulin treatment, to those obtained in pregnancies with a normal glucose challenge test. METHODS:Forty-five singleton pregnancies comp...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Rigano S,Ferrazzi E,Radaelli T,Cetin ET,Pardi G

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the incidence and timing of cardiac rupture following streptokinase (SK) administration in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS:We analyzed retrospectively the clinical sheets of AMI patients treated at the Coronary Care Unit in University Hospital Split, Croatia, between January 1, 1996, and Decem...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Polić S,Perković D,Stula I,Punda A,Lukin A,Rumboldt Z

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corporate medical practice, a market economy, and a consumer culture are transforming health care. The service relationships of doctors with patients are now commodities. The doctor, directed by disease management protocols (to improve outcomes, reduce costs, and standardize care), is, in effect, providing programmed ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Stoeckle JD

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the influence of 1991-1995 war on the prevalence, duration, and practice of breast-feeding Croatian children up to 5 years of age. METHOD:In 1996, interviews were conducted in households with children up to 2 years of age (757 children) and 2-5 years of age (1,180 children). Data for war-free areas,...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Zakanj Z,Armano G,Grgurić J,Herceg-Cavrak V

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of oral cancer in Jordan. METHOD:We retrospectively analyzed the medical records 118 consecutive patients treated for oral cancer from 1989 until 1998. RESULTS:The age of the patients ranged from 35 to 90 years (median 62.5 years); three quarters were men. N...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ma'aita JK

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Analysis of countertransference problems in the treatment of a heterogeneous group of war veterans. METHOD:The method used in this work was psychodynamic clinical observation and analysis of countertransference phenomena in group therapy. RESULTS:In the beginning of our work, we faced with a regressive group, whi...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Gregurek R

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout the Middle Ages a unique Croatian Glagolitic script co-existed with Latin and western Cyrillic scripts, thus creating an open, large, and tolerant cultural environment. Many works common to European cultural heritage were translated into Croatian (Church Slavonic) language and preserved in the Glagolitic sc...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Fatović-Ferencić S,Duerrigl MA

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photolysis or "uncaging" of caged compounds represents a significant tool in cell biology and chemistry. It provides a means for quantitative control of compound delivery with temporal and spatial resolution while observing their consequences for cellular signaling. We discuss the use of ultraviolet-transmitting optic...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Parpura V,Haydon PG

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To report on our experience with a voice-directed robotic arm for scope management in different procedures for "solo-surgery" and in complex laparoscopic operations. METHODS:A chip card with orders for the robotic arm is individually manufactured for every user. A surgeon gives order through a microphone and the o...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Bacá I,Schultz C,Grzybowski L,Göetzen V

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the results of current reforms in Macedonian health sector. METHOD:Description and situation analysis, covering the period 1991-1997, are focused on demographic and vital indicators, morbidity and mortality data, elements of health care system, legislation, health insurance, health care financing, and ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ivanovska L,Ljuma I

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On behalf of the European Commission, a Cross-Border Health Care Project was undertaken to explore how citizens living in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine can obtain improved access to health services in the Member States concerned: Belgium, Germany, and The Netherlands. Main attention of the project is focused on practical is...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Hermans HE,den Exter A

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polish physicians-philosophers tried to find a compromise between medicine as a science and medicine as a healing art. They stated that clinical practice should be transformed into science, bearing in mind that there would be no medicine without the existence of the sick. A perfect physician is a good and wise person ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pedziwiatr MJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calculation of the heart axis in the frontal plane can be performed with the combination of any two leads. The use of combination of bipolar (I, II, III) and unipolar leads (aVR, aVL and aVF) can produce wrong results. Calculation of the electrical axis from leads I and aVF without correction (sometimes used in EC...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Novosel D,Noll G,Lüscher TF

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate thyroid function and the presence of antithyroid autoantibodies in patients with sarcoidosis, compared to patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (controls). METHODS:Sera were obtained from 26 patients (19 women and 7 men) with active sarcoidosis, age and sex matched to 26 patients with dia...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ilias I,Panoutsopoulos G,Batsakis C,Nikolakakou D,Filippou N,Christakopoulou I

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To present two patients with basaloid squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx, a rare, highly aggressive variant of the squamous cell carcinoma. METHODS:Surgical excision of the polypoid tumor of the anterior comissure of the larynx was performed in a 62 year-old male, and in the second case, total laryngectomy with...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Kruslin B,Tomasović C,Cupić H,Belicza M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A basic premise of this article is that the political and ethnic division of the city of Mostar imperils community health planning efforts beyond those normally encountered in the aftermath of war. Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided among ethnic groups, and the city of Mostar is further subdivided between the Croatian ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pyle GF,Thompson CR,Oresković S,Bagaric I

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate successes in the clinical management of severe diarrheal diseases in a busy referral hospital in Ghana, four years after the introduction of the World Health Organization's protocol for the clinical management of diarrhea and the establishment of an oral rehydration therapy Corner. METHOD:Data on the c...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Baffoe-Bonnie B,Addo-Yobbo E,Plange-Rhule J

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To analyze the incidence, transvaginal detection age, sonographic appearance, clinical course, and outcomes of pregnancy in cases with abnormal fetal brain structure and/or circulation, and to evaluate the clinical significance of sonographic abnormalities. METHODS:Serial observation of the fetal brain and intracr...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pooh RK,Nakagawa Y,Nagamachi N,Pooh KH,Maeda K,Fukui R,Aono T

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the role of transvaginal color Doppler ultrasound in the treatment and follow-up after transvaginal instillation of methotrexate in ectopic pregnancy. Three patients diagnosed with ectopic pregnancies were treated with a single 50 mg dose of methotrexate, transvaginally instilled, under direct color sonog...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Plancher S,Conway C,Zalud I

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than a century, since the introduction of modern hernia repair by Basinni, technical aspects of hernia surgery have been surrounded by controversies. The purpose of this article is to examine these controversies with special attention to (a) mechanical versus degenerative nature of hernias, (b) traditional ti...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Amid PK

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two closely related boys from the same house hold (Home 1), aged two and three, were affected with fulminant meningococcal sepsis known as Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome. Neisseria meningitidis serogorup B was isolated from their blood and cerebrospinal fluid. The two-year-old boy died one day after the onset of the...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Smilović V,Vrbanec-Megla L,Payerl-Pal M,Puntarić D,Baklaić Z

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00