Achalasia is an uncommon dysfunctional neuromuscular disease of the oesophagus. General anaesthesia might be required for its diagnosis and treatment. During the anaesthesia, complications such as oesophagus dilatation-perforation ...

Primer cardiac tumors are 80% benign, the half of the benign ones are myxomas. Even though myxomas derivate from any cardiac portions, they are generally localized in left atrium (75%) and they are sporadic (1).

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The Editor Sir, We have previously reported that mean platelet volume (MPV) is decreased in nasal polyp patients compared to control subjects (1). First of all, we agree with Erdur et al that MPV has not been fully ...

Dear Editor:I read with great interest the article by Akin et al., reportingan association between coronary plaque and serum lipidparameters [1]. The authors examined serum lipid levels inpatients undergoing computed ...

Primary cardiac tumors are rare and approximately 50% of them are atrial myxomas [1,2]. Myxomas rarely remain asymptomatic, especially if they are large. On the other hand, visualization of a myxoma by contrast dye ...

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most prevalent skin cancerand accounts for 97% of the total.1 Squamous cell carcinoma(SCC) is the most common malignancy originating from scartissue. It has been reported that only ...

To the Editors: With great interest we read the recent article by Hitchings et al. on the safety of metformin in patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus and COPD (1). They found that in patients at high risk for lactate ...