Lymphedema after maxillary surgery: Factors affecting its development

OBJECTIVE Lymphedema is the most important complication of axillary lymph node dissection (ALND), which is an important component of the surgical treatment of breast cancer. In this retrospective study, the relevant data...

Dietary patterns and hypercholesterolemia, in remote Greek rural populations: The "ARGO" study

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate nutritional habits in relation to the prevalence of hypercholesterolemia among people living in remote rural Greek islands. METHOD A group of 383 men (aged 52±18 ye...

The mentally ill as a "spectacle" on the streets of Athens <br /> <br />

The history of psychiatry, as well as its achievements and progress, includes also some dark pages, when the mentally ill were demonstrated as a spectacle in the hospitals and the outpatient departments, and those wander...

Theories of “at least INUS condition” and “causal pie” in health sciences

Event causation has been a primary focus of scientific and epistemological discussion in the recent period but its analysis has been controversial. The following four approaches have been prominent: regularity analysis,...

Παράγωγα της λέξης αίμα στην Αγγλική γλώσσα