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Effect of parity status and age of Libyan mothers on body length and birth weight of newborn infants. A comparative study

Original article German Baars F. Zentralbl Gynakol. 1987;109(2):119-25. Abstract The parity status (p.s.) (1st to greater than or equal to 14th para) of 3,283 mothers, who have been delivered in the Central Hospital of Az Zawiyah/Libya between 1980 to 1983, had as well as to the length (average total increase 1.6 cm) and to the …

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Visceral leishmaniasis: a worldwide disease.

English el Mauhoub M, Aggarwal VP, Mehabreash MI, Dar FK. Indian J Pediatr. 1987 Jan-Feb;54(1):97-101. Abstract Keywords: Visceral leishmaniasis: a worldwide disease. Link/DOI:

Characteristic differences in the use of psychotropic drugs as a stigma of cultural influences.

Original article English Maslowski J. Department of Occupational Physiology and Psycholgy, Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine in Gdynia. Bull Inst Marit Trop Med Gdynia. 1987;38(1-2):133-8. Abstract The study aimed at investigation of the influence of the cultural and racial factors upon therapeutic response of the schizophrenic patients in Libya and Malta. The study revealed …

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Cross cultural study of productive phenomenology of schizophrenia.

Original article English Maslowski J. Department of Occupational Physiology and Psychology, Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine in Gdynia. Bull Inst Marit Trop Med Gdynia. 1987;38(1-2):126-32. Abstract A study of 97 cases of schizophrenia in Libya and 100 in Malta. Clinical analyses have showed differences of the content of the delusions and hallucinations as a …

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DIDMOAD syndrome in a Libyan family.

Case report English Shembesh NM, Sehgal KC, el Mauhoub M, Elzouki AA. Ann Trop Paediatr. 1986 Mar;6(1):47-50. Abstract We report three Libyan children from one family with the syndrome diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and deafness, (DIDMOAD). Two children presented with diabetic ketoacidosis while one was discovered during screening of the family. All three …

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Hepatic hydatid disease in Libya.

Original article English Elhamel A, Murthy BS. Br J Surg. 1986 Feb;73(2):125-7. Abstract A series of 50 patients with hepatic hydatid disease all treated at the Central Hospital, Tripoli, Libya is presented to show the advantage of ultrasonography in pre-operative diagnosis and the advantages of complete resection or omentoplasty compared with removal of the endocyst …

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Pseudotumour cerebri: incidence and pattern in North-Eastern Libya.

Original article English Radhakrishnan K, Sridharan R, Ashok PP, Mousa ME. Eur Neurol. 1986;25(2):117-24. Abstract The present documentation of 23 female patients with pseudotumour cerebri seen in Benghazi, North-Eastern Libya, over a period of 2 years constituted 21 cases with idiopathic pseudotumour and 2 patients with associated endocrine diseases. The clinical, laboratory and CT scan …

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Epidemiological and clinical study of epilepsy in Benghazi, Libya.

Original article English Sridharan R, Radhakrishnan K, Ashok PP, Mousa ME. Epilepsia. 1986 Jan-Feb;27(1):60-5. Abstract An epidemiologic study of adult patients (aged greater than 15 years) with epilepsy was made over a 2-year period, through the policlinics, EEG laboratory, and university hospitals in Benghazi, northeastern Libya. Based on a total of 568 patients (310 male …

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