https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/6517 2026-04-10T10:27:25Z 2026-04-10T10:27:25Z Sammut, J. J. https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51330 2020-02-16T06:09:19Z 1971-06-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Endaural tympanoplasty without flap : a report on 34 cases Authors: Sammut, J. J. Abstract: The most carefully planned and executed operation on the ear is a failure as far as the patient is concerned if the cavity collects debris and discharges for months and years afterwards. According to Mawson (1967), twenty-five per cent of radical mastoid cavities fail to heal, remain infected and discharge persistently after operation. Of 428 tympanoplasties done by Portmann (1963) between 1959 and 1962, only 75 per cent achieved perfectly dry cavities.

1971-06-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51108 2020-02-02T06:16:13Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: European Society of Surgery : general surgery & related specialties : abstracts (oral and poster presentations) Editors: Cutajar, L. Abstract: Book of abstracts from the 8th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Surgery which took place between 11th and 14th November 2004 in St. Julian's (Malta).

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Amato, Victor P. Bombelli, R. https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51011 2020-04-07T14:40:35Z 1959-08-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Early skeletal and vascular changes in rats fed on sweet pea (lathyrus odoratus) seeds Authors: Amato, Victor P.; Bombelli, R. Abstract: The disease caused by the copious ingestion of leguminous food was first recognised by Ramazzini, who described an outbreak of lathyrism in Modena in 1690, but it is probable that it had been known by Hippocrates (Stockman 1929). In 1868 Irving referred to the prevalence of the illness in India and described its main features, particularly muscle spasm; he found that 7 per cent of the population under review were affected. Acton (1922) studied the disease in the population of the town of Ravat (India) and found that about 6 per cent of the children showed signs of lathyrism. Vivanco and Jimenez Diaz (1951) described similar findings in Spain. Stockman (1929) reported his results of feeding guinea pigs on sweet pea meal; all died within one to five weeks. He believed that the cause was not so much poisoning as a deficiency state due partly to scurvy. The deleterious effects ofleguminous diet have been ascribed to an alkaloid (devicine) by Anderson, Howard and Simonsen (1925), isolated by them from Lathyrus odoratus, the sweet pea. Lee (1950) found that the acid of the stomach destroyed this alkaloid, thus excluding the probability that it caused lathyrism due to an ingested leguminous diet. He also exonerated enzymes, as the toxic factor persisted after boiling: Dupuy and Lee (1954) reported the isolation of a crystalline substance, later identified as B (Y -L glutamyl) aminopropionitrile by Schilling and Strong (1954). Ponseti and Baird (1952) and Ponseti and Shepard (1954) reported the first experimental observations on· the disease process with special reference to its effect on the skeleton and the rest of the mesodermal system. They described a widespread lesion of the epiphysial plates and a loosening and detachment of ligamentous and tendinous insertions causing many varied lesions and deformities, some of the latter probably being sequelae and not part of the disease entity. They believed that the active principle contained in the lathyrus pea, producing the skeletal changes, was B-aminopropionitrile. The present work has been undertaken in order to study the earliest changes of the disease in the skeleton, and to detect the role played by blood vessels in the affected regions. It was also hoped to determine whether the changes were reversible or not.

1959-08-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43454 2019-05-25T01:49:20Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: European Society of Surgery : general surgery & related specialties : programme Abstract: Aware of the diversity of interests arid professional requirements of its members, the Society for the Scientific Committee has prepared a diverse programme which offers scope to its members to share their clinical and research activities in the form of oral communications and posters as well as one which caters for the need to be informed on the latest areas of clinical and academic progress. For this reason a number of well-known European and American experts gave state-of-the art lectures on various topics relating to General Surgery and related specialities and oncology. A multi-national pre-meeting workshop on "Advances in Minimal Access Surgery" proved very beneficial to our young surgeons in training and to those who wish to keep abreast of progress in this field. Description: Programme of the European Society of Surgery 8th annual meeting on general surgery and related specialties, held at the Intercontinental Hotel in St. Julians Malta between the 11 and 14 of November 2004

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