The prefered current therapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma is raditherapy or chemotherapy, depending on disease stage. Radiotherapy can cause side effects which inlude teste and amell problems. Todetermine the problem of taste and smell after nasopharyngealcarcinoma therapy.The design of study was crosssectional. Seventy-four subjects fufill of the inductional. Seventy-four subjects fulfill of t…
Endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) is probably one of most important therapies for chronic chinosinusitis (CRS). Satisfaction following ESS for CRS has been reported in up to 98% for CRS has been reported in up to 98% patients. The objective of this study was to compare the health-related quality of life of patients who underwent conventional sinus sugery with those who underwent endoscopic sinus s…
Each suction cigarette smoke contains free radicals 1015 and a substance that can tngger the formation 0/ free radicals in the lung tissue. Tracheal cartilage is part 0/ the respiratory system: Tracheal cartilage damage can be detected from the cell Ieondrosit elements. Vitamin C as an anti-oxidant has been ShOl1Jf1 to neutralize the effects of free radicals in the alveoli and the trachea pithe…
Aim: to obtain the OSAS prevalence and risk factors of OSAS in obese early adolescents and to create a scoring system based on risk factors for diagnosing OSAS. Methods: an observational study in Jakarta, November 2007 until December 2008 on obese adolescents aged 10-12 years with snoring. Subjects underwent clinical examination, lung function test, paranasal sinus X-ray, and polisomnography…
Leptospirosis is an acute febrile illness injecting human and animal (zoonosis) and caused by the bacteria leptospira. Semarang city is one endemic leptospirosis with incidence rate in 2009 of 13,27/100.000 and case fa ta lity rate 3,5%. This study aimed to know the epidemiological characteristics of leptospirosis cases and the relationship of environmental conditions of settlement with the…
Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the cor-relation between decreased E-Cadherin and Bf-integrin expression in resectable endometrial cancer with the depth of myometrial inva¬sion and pelvic lymph node metastasis. Method: This was a cross sectional study, we used immunohis-tochemistry examination on E-Cadherin and Bt-integrin expression in resectable endometrial cancer pati…
The incidence ofpreeclampsia in Indonesia (1980-2001) was around 6-8% of the total pregnancies with maternal mortality rate 9.8-25%. In preeclampsia, an increase of apoptosis occurs as a result of a decrease ofBc1-2 expression before a pregnancy reached full term. The objectives of this study were to determine placental apoptosis index (AI) in preeclampsia and normal pregnancy, and its correlat…