The Medical journal of Australia
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Fifty patients were treated with extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy for upper urinary tract calculi. The procedure was performed by means of either epidural or general anaesthesia. There were minimal postoperative complications with a mean length of stay of 3.6 days. ⋯ Forty (80%) patients were free of all stone fragments within one month of their discharge from hospital. Three patients have residual fragments of greater than 2 mm in axial length. The remainder underwent other procedures to remove residual stones or will be treated with further extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy therapy.
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Trends in the mortality rate due to cancer of the cervix in Australian women were reviewed for the period 1950-1984, taking into account the changes in the proportion of women who have undergone a hysterectomy. Cohort-based increases in women who were born after 1935, which had been reported previously, were observed to extend into the 40 to 44 years' age group and to continue the upward trend in women aged 30-39 years. However, for women who were less than 30 years of age there was evidence of a recent fall in the rate of cervical cancer mortality.
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Comparative Study
Physical size of 1887 aboriginal schoolchildren in the Kimberley region.
This study has documented the weights and heights of 1887 Aboriginal schoolchildren from communities throughout the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The data have been analysed in relation to age and sex. Median weights and heights of the Aboriginal children approximated the 10th percentile for weight, and the 25th percentile for height of non-Aboriginal WA children. ⋯ Retrospective data indicate that these differences between children from remote and town communities were present at their birth and through childhood. Median body mass indices (BMIs) approximated the 10th percentile values for BMI of non-Aboriginal children in the earlier years. The expected increase in BMI with age occurred later in Aboriginal children (at 11-12 years) than in non-Aboriginal children (eight years); in the older Aboriginal children (older than 11-12 years) median values approximated 25th percentile values of non-Aboriginal boys and 50th percentile values of non-Aboriginal girls of the same age.