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The purpose of this study is to differentiate Kikuchi's disease and malignant lymphoma by soft tissue ultrasound.

Establishing a Data Base for Aplastic Anemia and Other Marrow Failure Syndrome

Saliva is used nowadays as a significant diagnostic tool due to the latest technological developments. The research compares two experimental groups; children after liver transplantation and a control group. Our objective is to identify from all the parameters that are evaluated, the ones that differ between the two groups. If such parameters will be found and differ statistically, it will be possible to create a non invasive medical examination protocol, which will probably be much more complaint, and being so would help locate individuals in risk groups with the tendency to develop an end-organ liver disease.

The purpose of the investigators study is to retrospectively evaluate the predictors of malignant thyroid nodules and established an useful scoring system based on sonographic findings and demographic data.

Silicosis is well-known occupational disease caused by free crystalline silica (silicon dioxide) and is marked by inflammation and pulmonary fibrosis. There are cumulative evidences that exposure to Caesar stone (quartz surface products that manufactured from up to 93% quartz, polymer resins and pigments) is particularly dangerous to exposed workers. Goals: To examine correlation between disease and exposure to Caesar stone and genetic differences regarding genes involved in oxidative stress to understand Genetic susceptibility

This is a comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) currently used to evaluate elderly people in order to be able to assess their multiple organ pathology, cognitive, functional and social problems. This CGA is a very time consuming tool although a powerful one. The investigators want to present a new assessment test witch is short and comprehensive tool witch will be checked in ambulatory and in-hospital geriatric patients.

The purpose of this study is to examine clinical characteristics of Korean adolescents with depression who have suicidal ideation and behavior. We formulate those hypotheses. Being bullied in peer relationships, excessive use of internet, excessive extra-curricular tutoring, sexual abuse in childhood, physical abuse and emotional neglect are risk factors of suicide in adolescents. Depression of parents and negative child-rearing attitude are risk factors of suicidal ideation and behavior in adolescents. Emotional quotient (EQ) and resilience of adolescent are protective factors of suicide.

The investigators recently proposed a new hypothesis on the pathogenesis of mammillary fistulae (MF) suggesting that occlusion of hair follicles by keratinous plugging may relevantly contribute to the development of MF. The investigators believe that the pathogenesis of MF mimics the behaviour of hidradenitis suppurative, as both clinical entities manifest themselves as a chronic, suppurative and recurrent inflammatory process. This new proposal has led to the present suggestion of a therapeutic alternative for MF.

Patients in Pisa will undergo thyroid gland surgery. In the protocol group anesthesia will be performed using an automated anesthesia delivery system; preoperative and intra-operative assessment of patients will be performed via video-conferencing from Montreal, which will also monitor and control anesthesia delivery via distant Internet connection - as supervision of functioning of the automated anesthesia delivery system. In the control group anesthesia will be performed in a standard fashion with manual control of the syringe pumps infusing anesthetics drugs. The hypothesis is that Tele-anesthesia, considered as preoperative assessment and anesthetic control of an automated anesthesia delivery system is feasible and reliable via standard means of internet communication (distant control via virtual network) and performed as well or even better than manual control of the anesthetic drugs infusion.

Frozen- thawed embryos obtained by IVF treatments are transferred to the uterus immediately following thawing or after incubation for additional 24-72 hours. The two methods are routine in IVF laboratories. In this study the investigators would like to compare between these two methods in terms of implantation rate, pregnancy rate and delivery.