Background : To determine predictive factors of mortality among children after isolated traumatic brain injury.Materials and Methods : In this retrospective study, we included all consecutive children with isolated traumatic brain injury admitted to the 22-bed intensive care unit (ICU) of Habib Bourguiba University Hospital (Sfax, Tunisia).Basic de
Amber In South Africa, much of the forest biome is vulnerable to human-induced disturbance.The forest-dwelling butterfly Charaxes xiphares occidentalis is naturally confined to a small forest region in the south-western Cape, South Africa.Most of the remaining habitat of this species is within a fragmented agricultural matrix.Furthermore, this geog
The phenomenon of heterochrony, or shifts in the relative timing of ontogenetic events, is important for understanding many aspects of plant evolution, including applied issues such as crop yield.In this paper, we review heterochronic shifts in the evolution of an important floral organ, the carpel.The carpels, being ovule-bearing organs, facilitat
Medical treatment of meningiomas is reserved for cases in which surgery and radiotherapy have failed.Given that a high percentage of meningiomas express somatostatin receptors, treatment with somatostatin analogues has been proposed.In addition, these medications have been shown to have an antiproliferative and antiangiogenic effect in vitro.To dat