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Rectal cancer : staging, radiotherapy and surgery
(2003-05-02)
In Sweden, about 1800 patients are annually diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the rectum. Surgery remains the major primary treatment. Adjuvant radiotherapy and total mesorectal excision (TME) are two major achievements in ...
On spinal mechanisms for reflex control in man : modulation of Ia-afferent excitation with changes in muscle length, activation level and fatigue
(2004-03-26)
To control muscle force, neural activation has to take alterations in
muscle mechanics into account. This thesis assesses modulations in
excitatory efficacy of Ia-afferents during muscle length changes at
different ...
Clinical, histopathologic and genetic diagnosis in osteogenesis imperfecta and dentinogenesis imperfecta
(2004-01-23)
The aims of this thesis were to investigate (1) dental aberrations in a large sample of unrelated patients with different types and forms of OI, (2) degree of dentin dysplasia in relation to type and form of OI and clinical, radiographic...
The social patterning of road traffic injuries during childhood and youth : national longitudinal register-based studies
(2004-05-07)
Apart from being the primary cause of death during childhood and
adolescence, scientific evidence points in the direction that road
traffic injuries make a major contribution to social inequalities in
health during this ...
Genetic studies of depressive symptoms
(2004-02-06)
This thesis is focused on depressive symptoms particularly in late fife. Depressive symptoms are associated with serious negative outcomes a greater level of disability and with excess morbidity and mortality. This thesis ...
Autoimmune markers in autoimmune diabetes
(2003-12-19)
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is an autoimmune disease, characterized by autoimmune mediated loss of insulin secreting Beta-cells. The disease is associated with certain HLA class 11 haplotypes. HLA DR3-DQ2 and DR4-DQ8 are positively while DQ6...
Sacroiliac pain-provocation testing in physiotherapy : time and force recording
(2004-08-27)
Introduction: Some of the tests used for examining pain arising from the
sacroiliac region are intended to provoke pain by using manually applied
forces. Previous reliability and validity studies of sacroiliac
pain-provocation ...
Local recurrence after breast conserving surgery in breast cancer
(2002-08-30)
. Generally, the risk of local recurrence was higher than expected, but the estimated survival rates were gratifying. The overall risk of local recurrence was 9.2% at five years and 21.1% at ten years, and the breast cancer-specific survival was 93.3% and 85...
The importance of Escherichia coli fimbriae in urinary tract infection
(2001-11-16)
adhesion in vitro to cultured human urogenital cells in both light microscopy and flow cytometry analyses. The PapG class II positive DS17 and JR1 adhered avidly, while the two mutants lacking PapG class II did not. We were able to inhibit adhesion with a...
Indoor environment and recurrent wheezing in young children
(2003-02-21)
/concrete slab foundation, compared with those living in buildings erected before 1940, OR 2.5 (1.3-4.8) and OR 2.5 (1.1-5.4). This was not primarily explained by differences in type of ventilation systems, measured ventilation rate, occurrence of house dust mite...