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Renovanz M, Bombach P, Grosse L, Rieger J, Skardelly M, Rieger D, Hille H, Volkmer S, Dörner L, Kurz S, Hippler M, Paulsen F, Öner Ö, Ruhm K, Beha J, Sundberg-Malek H, Möller Y, Tatagiba M, Wallwiener M, Eckert N, Escher P, Pfeiffer N, Forschner A, Bauer A, Zips D, Bitzer M, Malek N, Gani C, Tabatabai G. QOL-23. TOWARDS PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME ASSESSMENT IN THE MOLECULAR TUMOR BOARD – CANCER PATIENTS UNDER TARGETED THERAPY: APP-BASED ASSESSMENT OF PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOMES (TRACE). Neuro Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noac209.950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Abstract
Comprehensive genomic profiling and biomarker-based therapeutic strategies are currently used in clinical trials and in innovative health care systems including the center for personalized medicine network. Systematic assessments of patient-reported outcomes are warranted to gain insight into the perspective of patients and their relatives during biomarker-based therapies. In the present study, we focused on health-related quality of life (HRQoL), psychosocial situation, and physical symptoms in patients treated at the Center for Personalized Medicine Tübingen. First, we retrospectively evaluated symptom burden of n=265 (neuro-)oncological patients in the Molecular Tumor Board (MTB). Sixty percent of patients reported at least 1 neurological symptom, and psychosocial burden/unmet needs were high (overall 156/265; 59%, patients with malignant tumors n=86/106; 81%, Fisher’s exact, p < 0.0001). We therefore developed an app by 14 expert rounds and pretesting including validated assessments of HRoL, symptom und psychological burden and tested it in a pilot study. We conducted a structured interview with users 3 months afterwards to assess the app’s usability and feasibility. The interview was transcribed and analyzed according to a qualitative content analysis. So far, a total of 10 patients and caregivers have been enrolled in this pilot study. They reported that (i) the app is compatible with their daily routine (median 9.3, range 0-10), that (ii) they are more aware of their health status, which was rated as positive, and that (iii) completing app-based questionnaires was easier compared to paper questionnaires. Two patients reported technical problems, which were resolved timely. The pilot study proved feasibility and acceptance of the app. The app might optimize symptom burden assessment, adapted to the patients’ profiles. The next step is to prospectively compare HRQoL before and after start of targeted therapy in a multicenter study.
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- Mirjam Renovanz
- Department of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, USA
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- Department of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, USA
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- Department of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Center for Personalized Medicine Tübingen, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Center for Personalized Medicine Tübingen, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Center for Personalized Medicine Tübingen, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Center for Personalized Medicine Tübingen, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Center for Personalized Medicine Tübingen, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery University Hospital Tübingen , Tuebingen , Germany
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- Department of Gynecology, University Hospital Heidelberg , Heidelberg , Germany
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- Eckert & Partner - IT Consulting , Stuttgart , Germany
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- Methods in Medical Informatics, Department of Computer Science, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Methods in Medical Informatics, Department of Computer Science, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Tübingen, , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Women’s Health, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen , Tübingen , Germany
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- Department of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research , Tübingen , Germany
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de Bouchard d'Aubeterre G, Favillier A, Mainieri R, Lopez Saez J, Eckert N, Saulnier M, Peiry JL, Stoffel M, Corona C. Tree-ring reconstruction of snow avalanche activity: Does avalanche path selection matter? Sci Total Environ 2019; 684:496-508. [PMID: 31154222 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2019] [Revised: 05/13/2019] [Accepted: 05/14/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In the current context of anthropogenic global warming, one of the purposes of dendrogeomorphic analyses is to provide long and continuous chronologies of mass movements, so as to detect potential trends or shift related to increasing temperatures. However, on documented slopes, the comparison between historical archives and tree-ring records suggests that dendrogeomorphic reconstructions systematically underestimate the natural activity of the process under investigation. In the specific case of snow avalanches, underestimation generally amounts to 50% and the main causes generally given for this difference are related to the magnitude of past events. In this study, we hypothesize that the morphometric characteristics of avalanche paths and their forest cover could have significant impacts on the length and reliability of tree-ring reconstructions. In order to test this hypothesis, we selected four adjacent, albeit differently structured, avalanche paths from the Queyras massif (French Alps), with the aim to compare their potential for a continuous reconstruction of past avalanche activity. On the most active avalanche paths characterized by high-altitude release areas (covered only by shrubby vegetation), tree-ring reconstructions do not exceed one century in length, with recurrence intervals of high magnitude events >25 years. By contrast, on forested couloirs where lower slopes and forest coverage up to the release areas limits the intensity of events, the frequency of reconstructed snow avalanches is 2.5 times higher, the reconstructions span longer periods and the convergence rate with historical archives attest to the reliability of the dendrogeomorphic approach. These results suggest that a careful selection of couloirs is essential and that priority should be given to forested sites as (i) they allow for exhaustive and (ii) reliable reconstructions over (iii) long periods of time.
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Université de Limoges, GEOLAB, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France..
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- University Grenoble Alpes, Irstea, UR LESSEM, 2 rue de la Papeterie-BP 76, F-38402 St-Martin-d'Hères, France
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- Institute for Environmental Sciences - University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl Vogt, CH-1205 Genève, Switzerland
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- University Grenoble Alpes, Irstea, UR ETNA, 2 rue de la Papeterie-BP 76, F-38402 St-Martin-d'Hères cedex, France
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 129, 16521 Prague, Czech Republic
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- CNRS, UMI3189, "Environnement, Santé, Sociétés", Faculté de Médecine, UCAD, BP 5005, DAKAR-FANN, Sénégal
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- Institute for Environmental Sciences - University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl Vogt, CH-1205 Genève, Switzerland.; Dendrolab.ch, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, rue des Maraîchers 13, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.; Department F.-A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Sciences, University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl-Vogt, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Université de Limoges, GEOLAB, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Zemp M, Huss M, Thibert E, Eckert N, McNabb R, Huber J, Barandun M, Machguth H, Nussbaumer SU, Gärtner-Roer I, Thomson L, Paul F, Maussion F, Kutuzov S, Cogley JG. Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016. Nature 2019; 568:382-386. [PMID: 30962533 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1071-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2018] [Accepted: 01/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Glaciers distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets cover an area of approximately 706,000 square kilometres globally1, with an estimated total volume of 170,000 cubic kilometres, or 0.4 metres of potential sea-level-rise equivalent2. Retreating and thinning glaciers are icons of climate change3 and affect regional runoff4 as well as global sea level5,6. In past reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, estimates of changes in glacier mass were based on the multiplication of averaged or interpolated results from available observations of a few hundred glaciers by defined regional glacier areas7-10. For data-scarce regions, these results had to be complemented with estimates based on satellite altimetry and gravimetry11. These past approaches were challenged by the small number and heterogeneous spatiotemporal distribution of in situ measurement series and their often unknown ability to represent their respective mountain ranges, as well as by the spatial limitations of satellite altimetry (for which only point data are available) and gravimetry (with its coarse resolution). Here we use an extrapolation of glaciological and geodetic observations to show that glaciers contributed 27 ± 22 millimetres to global mean sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016. Regional specific-mass-change rates for 2006-2016 range from -0.1 metres to -1.2 metres of water equivalent per year, resulting in a global sea-level contribution of 335 ± 144 gigatonnes, or 0.92 ± 0.39 millimetres, per year. Although statistical uncertainty ranges overlap, our conclusions suggest that glacier mass loss may be larger than previously reported11. The present glacier mass loss is equivalent to the sea-level contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet12, clearly exceeds the loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet13, and accounts for 25 to 30 per cent of the total observed sea-level rise14. Present mass-loss rates indicate that glaciers could almost disappear in some mountain ranges in this century, while heavily glacierized regions will continue to contribute to sea-level rise beyond 2100.
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- M Zemp
- Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Irstea, UR ETGR, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Irstea, UR ETGR, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Geography and Planning, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Glaciology, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Geography, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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Luhn O, Eckert N, Bernard J. Sensory evaluation of Isomalt, Mannitol and sucrose with respect to the manufacture of organoleptically attractive dosage forms. Int J Pharm 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2016.06.110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Lavigne A, Eckert N, Bel L, Parent E. Adding expert contributions to the spatiotemporal modelling of avalanche activity under different climatic influences. J R Stat Soc Ser C Appl Stat 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- A. Lavigne
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Paris
- Université Grenoble Alpes; St Martin d'Hères France
- Imperial College London; UK
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- Université Grenoble Alpes; St Martin d'Hères France
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Paris
- AgroParisTech; Paris France
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Paris
- AgroParisTech; Paris France
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Rogenhofer N, Eckert N, Götzfried I, Nguyen T, Pagel J, Kammerer T, Hilferink S, Klug F, Hofmann-Kiefer K, Chouker A, Rehm M, Thaler CJ. Effects of the menstrual cycle on the endothelial glycocalyx (EGX) and leucocyte function. Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd 2014. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1387999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Jenny D, Mathiesen C, McAvoy J, Rodgers J, Eckert N. Developing a community based stroke awareness education program. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s1052-3057(99)80103-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Rae-Grant AD, Eckert N, Barbour PJ, Castaldo JE, Gee W, Wohlberg CJ, Lin ZS, Reed JF. Outcome of severe brain injury: a multimodality neurophysiologic study. J Trauma 1996; 40:40l-7. [PMID: 8601857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
Abstract
We screened all head-injured trauma patients admitted to Lehigh Valley Hospital during a 2-year period. From 725 screened patients, 69 patients in a coma on the second day after trauma were entered into this study. During the first week, these patients underwent electroencephalography (EEG), evoked potentials, ocular pneumoplethysmography, and transcranial Doppler (TCD) sonography. Clinical examinations were undertaken 2 and 7 days after trauma. Test results were correlated with functional clinical outcome at 6 months. In a multiple regression analysis, EEG was the major independent variable that significantly predicted 6-month outcome based on Glasgow Outcome Scale score. Transcranial Doppler sonography contributed a small additional component. Though EEG was the most significant predictive factor in this neurophysiological battery, it did not add significantly to the predictive power of Glasgow Coma Scale score determined at day 7. These findings suggest that in neurophysiologic testing in this type of patient is not useful in improving predictive outcome data.
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- A D Rae-Grant
- Department of Medicine, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, PA 18103, USA
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Eckert N. [Torsion of the normal adnexes in childhood]. Zentralbl Gynakol 1972; 94:1754-8. [PMID: 4651484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Eckert N, Spenke W. [Twin pregnancy and perinatal mortality]. Zentralbl Gynakol 1972; 94:426-36. [PMID: 5030161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Eckert N. [Stress ulcer as cause of acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage at the end of pregnancy with eclampsia]. Zentralbl Gynakol 1969; 91:1478-83. [PMID: 5310715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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