Study Design. Systematic review and modified Delphi technique. Objective. To use an
evidence-based medicine process using the best available literature and expert opinion …

Despite advances in the field of male reproductive health, idiopathic male infertility, in which
a man has altered semen characteristics without an identifiable cause and there is no …

Choosing the right operation for metastatic spinal tumours is often difficult, and depends on
many factors, including life expectancy and the balance of the risk of surgery against the …

… and Kazuhisa TOMITA … Then for every k>0, we must have … In -these expressions 1',-K,
etc., denote relative coordinates of the nuclei. ' The magnetic moment Mm, which represents …

BACKGROUND: Estimation of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is limited by differences in
creatinine generation among ethnicities. Our previously reported GFR-estimating equations for …

Study Design. A new surgical strategy for treatment of patients with spinal metastases was
designed, and 61 patients were treated based on this strategy. Objectives. To propose a new …

Background Chronic rhinosinusitis ( CRS ) can be classified into CRS with nasal polyps (
CRS w NP ) and CRS without nasal polyps ( CRS s NP ). CRS w NP displays more intense …

We have developed a technique for total en bloc spondylectomy through a posterior approach
and now report our experience of 20 patients with a solitary or localised metastasis in the …

In this paper, a novel robotic system called modular transformer (M-TRAN) is proposed. M-TRAN
is a distributed, self-reconfigurable system composed of homogeneous robotic modules…

Matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) has been purified as an inactive zymogen of M(r) 92,000
(proMMP-9) from the culture medium of HT 1080 human fibrosarcoma cells. The NH2-…