BACKGROUND: Posterior pedicle screw fixation is a common method for treatment of thoracolumbar compression fractures. The fixation method contains long-segment fixation, short-segment fixation and vertebral fixation. Clinical effects of vertebral fixation and inter-vertebral short-segment fixation for treating thoracolumbar fractures remain unclear. OBJECTIVE: To compare the stability of posterior vertebral fixation and inter-vertebral pedicle screw fixation for treating thoracolumbar compression fractures. METHODS: Clinical data of 46 patients with thoracolumbar compression fractures were retrospectively analyzed. According to the fixation methods, they were divided into the vertebral fixation group (n=21) and inter-vertebral fixation group (n=25). The operation time, intraoperative bleeding, intraoperative blood transfusion, the time of lying in bed, vertebral Cobb angle, anterior vertebral height and visual analog scores were evaluated for a long time. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: (1) During repair, in both groups, operation time, intraoperative bleeding and intraoperative blood transfusion were better in the inter-vertebral fixation group than in the vertebral fixation group (P < 0.05-0.01). The time of lying in bed was better in the vertebral fixation group than in inter-vertebral fixation group (P < 0.01). (2) No significant difference in Cobb angle and anterior vertebral height was detected before and after treatment and during repair in both groups, but final fol ow-up and fol ow-up loss were better in the vertebral fixation group than in inter-vertebral fixation group (P < 0.05-0.01). (3) No significant difference in visual analog scores was detected before and after treatment in both groups. Visual analog scores were better in the vertebral fixation group than in the inter-vertebral fixation group (P <0.01). (4) These results suggested that the two fixation methods obtained satisfactory repair effects in long-term fol ow-up. The dominance in maintaining the height and curvature of the spine was more obvious in the vertebral fixation group than in the inter-vertebral fixation group. The vertebral fixation can be more effective to reconstruct the spinal physiological sequence and restore its stability. After repair, low back pain can also be effectively control ed.

Molecular diagnosis is rapidly developed in recent years , mainly applicated in the diagnosis of hereditary disease , infectious pathogens, tumor susceptibility and molecular typing , companion diagnosis and prognosis assessment , playing more and more important role in many diseases diagnosis and treatment.Molecular diagnosis was developed from the eighties of the last century in our country .Nowadays, the mainly applied technologies in the clinical laboratory include fluorescence in situ hybridization , quantitative PCR, microarray and DNA sequencing. These molecular technologies make up for the insufficiency of routine testing and take up a central role in the development of modern laboratory medicine . With the continuous development in transformation research of molecular technology recent years , there will be more molecular diagnostic techniques applied in clinicaldiagnosis in the future .But it still exists some drawbacks in the performance of molecular diagnosis in our country according to the current situation , such as imbalanced regional development , mismatched policies, non-standardized laboratory construction , deficiency of quality control and supervision , etc., which requires the joint effort of the government , hospital, professional association and clinical laboratory itself to promote the healthy and orderly development of molecular diagnosis.

To study the inducing effect of sepia on the CSF (colony stimulating factor) level of mice.The BALB/c mice be poured into sepia through mouth for five days,then obtaining the marrow cell,culturing it in Methyl cellulose M 20 which contains CSF and lasted time of CSA (colony stimulating activity) for assay by method colony forming,The results indicated that sepia could promote colony forming of marrow cell of mice and as compared with control it has a significant differences ( P

During the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in terms of speed, read length, and throughput, along with a sharp reduction in per-base cost.Together, these advances democratized next generation sequence (NGS) and paved the way for the development of a large number of novel NGS applications in clinical diagnostics, especially in the field of non-invasive prenatal detection, rare genetic disease and cancer companion diagnostics.As technology advances, long-read single molecule sequencing began to emerge.Single cell, long-reads, transcriptome, and low cost will be the NGS direction.Due to the special nature of clinical testing, the current NGS clinical application system,including genetic counseling, testing standards, quality control, supervision, database construction etc, does not match the national conditions well and still faces a few challenges, needs to be constantly improved through the routine clinical practice in the future.

The PTEN, having a dual specificity phosphatase activity, is the first tumor suppressor gene that possess phosphatase activity hitherto. Many researches have suggested that PTEN play a major role in the tumorgenesis. In clinical, the head and neck squamous cell carcinoma(HNSCC) is one of the most common malignant tumors. In this review, advances in the research of PTEN and the relationship between the PTEN and HNSCC are discussed.

BACKGROUND:Diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis has been reported in the literatures, but whether the combination with risk prediction scoring system and a variety of laboratory index increase the diagnosis rate of deep venous thrombosis remains unclear.
OBJECTIVE:To improve the diagnosis sensitivity of traumatic deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity using Wel s scoring system combined D-dimer and fibrin degradation product.
METHODA total of 82 patients with low limb fractures and spine fracture were included in this study, those patients with high risk factors of deep venous thrombosis or with the history of deep venous thrombosis were excluded. After admission, the fol owing indicators of deep venous thrombosis were determined, including
D-dimer, fibrin degradation product, fibrinogenase, prothrombin time, activated partial thrombokinase time, blood platelets count, C-reaction protein, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate. In addition, Doppler ultrasound detection of double lower limbs deep vein was performed, and the results were recorded. According to scoring system of deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity (Wel s scoring system), the patients were assigned into low-risk, middle-risk and high-risk cases.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Doppler ultrasound detection showed that, there were 30 cases in deep venous thrombosis group, and 52 cases in non-deep venous thrombosis. The peak value of D-dimer and fibrin degradation product showed significant differences between the two groups (P<0.05). According to Wel s scoring system, there were 13 low-risk cases, 32 middle-risk cases, and 37 high-risk cases. The diagnosis rate of deep venous thrombosis using D-dimer and fibrin degradation product:positive prediction value for middle-risk deep venous thrombosis was 44.44%and for high-risk deep venous thrombosis was 70.97%. Logistic regression analysis showed that, in the middle-risk and high-risk deep venous thrombosis cases, the Wel s score has a positive correlation with laboratory test and Doppler ultrasound detection of deep venous thrombosis (P<0.05). The score of Wel s scoring system combined D-dimer and fibrin degradation product have clinical significances for the formation of deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity after trauma.

Kawasaki disease has been the major etiology of aquired heart problems in children. Mecha-nisms of Kawasaki disease are still unclear in the past years. Some Kawasaki disease patients were not responsive to intravenous immunoglobulin therapy. And corticosteroid therapy remains controversial in the treatment of Ka-wasaki disease. A few patients with Kawasaki disease presented severe systemic symptoms,and even died for it. It is difficult to evaluate the severity of coronary artery lesions and prognosis of Kawasaki disease. In this article, we reviewed some new concepts on diagnosis and treatments on Kawasaki disease.

Osteoporotic fracture is the most destructive ending of osteoporosis, many interacting risk factors play a role in its occurrence. With age, the bodies function decline gradually. Symptoms like soreness of the waist, back pain, cramp of the lower limb and weakness appears. These are related to TCM syndrome factors like kidney deficiency, liver deficiency, spleen deficiency and blood stagnation. Symptoms can act as a warning of the occurrence of osteoporotic fracture in the early stages. The risk assessment tool of osteoporotic fracture is mostly developed on the basis of modern risk factors and thus lacks syndrome differentiation, that may limit its utilization. If the relevant content of syndrome differentiation is integrated into the forecasting tool and a risk assessment tool of osteoporotic fracture which complies with the demographics of China is built up, population risk assessment for high of risk could be established and scientific evidence for the adoption of effective interventions could be applied.
Bone Density ; China ; epidemiology ; Humans ; Osteoporotic Fractures ; epidemiology ; genetics ; metabolism ; physiopathology ; Risk Assessment ; Risk Factors

To study and observe the changes of serum, aqueous humor and tear lL - 2, slL - 2, NO, TAC, and SOD of patients with cataract.
●METHODS: Totally 60 patients with cataract in our hospital from November 2011 to September 2013 were included as the observation group, and 60 patients with eye traumas were as the control group. The serum, aqueous humor and tear lL - 2, slL - 2, NO, TAC, and SOD of two groups were detected and compared, and the detection levels of patients with different stages were compared.
●RESULTS: The serum, aqueous humor and tear lL-2, TAC, and SOD of observation group were all lower than those of control group, the slL-2 and NO were all higher than those of control group. The serum, aqueous humor and tear detection levels of patients at different stages had obvious differences, and the aqueous humor lL - 2 were lower than those of serum and tear, the slL-2 were higher than those of serum and tear, with statistically significant differences.
●CONCLUSlON: The change of serum, aqueous humor and tear lL-2, slL-2, NO, TAC, and SOD of patients are all great, and the influence of the stages for those indexes are great too, the inflammatory response state of aqueous humor are more obvious.