… Despite being a benign condition that is likely to gradually improve by the age of 12, it
significantly interferes with the child’s well-being and runs up significant medical and social costs. …

… ’s and family’s quality of life. Observation alone can be a strategy, although not optimal.
When feasible, complete lymph node surgical excision is the most effective therapeutic option …

A wide range of environmental pollutants commonly termed endocrine disrupters (ED) can
mimic steroid hormones causing adverse health effects. Recent studies showed that …

Vascular lesions are the most common congenital and neonatal abnormalities. The aim of
this work is to point out differences between various vascular anomalies, in order to define …

… where equation image denotes porosity, S is the saturation, k r is the relative permeability, k
… considering that S w + S n = 1, the unknowns in this set of equations are: P n , P w , and S w . …

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Despite surgical refinements, perioperative use of tracheobronchoscopy
(TBS) as part of surgical approach to esophageal atresia (EA) is still controversial. …

… findings of a large group of children with EA and TEF surgically corrected and the instrumental
investigation to which they have undergone in order to better understand the patient’s …

Fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma (FL-HCC) is a rare liver tumor affecting adolescents
and young adults with no history of primary liver disease or cirrhosis. We identified a …

Barbel (Barbus plebejus, Cyprinidae) were captured in the Po River, upstream and
downstream from the confluence of the Lambro River, a polluted tributary of the major Italian …

… S /(K S + C S ), with a maximum specific growth rate μ max and Monod half-saturation coefficient
K S … growth of active biomass through the yield Y XS so that r S = −r X /Y XS . First-order …