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[The general intelligence factor: psychometric study. Approach to the problem of mental deterioration].

The authors have measured the correlation coefficient between W.B. and P.M. scores in 80 normal subjects, comparable for age and school. A mutual relationship between the two tests, connected by the hypothetical general intelligence factor "g", was really demonstrated. Correlation coefficient was positive and significative between W.B. total scores, excepted verbal scores, and P.M., the highest one between subtests 8, 9 and P.M. The intra-tests correlation between W.B. total scores and each subtest score was also evaluated: between sub-tests 8, 9 and W.B. total scores the highest one again. A new qualitative interpretation of mental deterioration in clinical neurology and psychiatry is suggested on the base of these results.

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[The role of radical surgery in the treatment of epidermoid carcinoma of the anal canal].

In order to define the role of radical surgery in the actual treatment of epidermoid carcinoma of the anal canal (ECAC), we retrospectively reviewed the charts of patients with primary ECAC, treated with radical surgery in the Hospital de Oncología, National Medical Center IMSS. We analyzed the recurrence pattern, its treatment and the contemporary literature was reviewed. From 1975 to 1990, we treated 16 patients; 13 females, 3 males, mean age was 64 years. The presurgical stage was T2, 6; T3 7; T4, 3. An abdominoperineal resection was performed in 12 patients; a posterior pelvic exenteration in 3; a total pelvic exenteration in 1. Ten patients developed surgical complications, 4 of them were major, 2 required surgical reintervention. There was no operative mortality. We obtained local tumor control in 5/16 patients (32%); the local recurrence by stage were T2, 3/6 (50%); T3, 5/7 (71%); T4, 3/3 (100%) p = 0.04. Ten of them were located at the pelvis brim and 1 was located to the central pelvis (vagina, perineum), 9 were treated with radiation therapy (RT) a mean dose of 45 Gy, only the patient with central local recurrence obtained local tumor control. Regional recurrences were as follows: T2 patients, 1/6 (16%); T3, 2/7 (28%); T4, 2/3 (66%). The 2 patients with metachronous inguinal lymph node metastases were treated with a radical groin dissection, with tumor control. In conclusion, the radical surgical treatment is associated with a low loco-regional tumor control; the pelvic tumor relapses were located at the pelvis brim and with no response to RT. With the results herein obtained and the results with other treatment modalities such as RT and its associations with chemotherapy (C) in regard to local tumor control, the actual role of the radical surgical treatment in the salvage of central pelvic relapses to primary treatment with RT or C-RT.

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Physical and emotional abuse in pregnancy: a comparison of adult and teenage women.

A sample of 691 African American, Hispanic, and white pregnant teenage and adult women were interviewed in the prenatal setting. On their first prenatal visit, 182 (26%) women reported physical or sexual abuse within the past year. There were significant differences between the teens and adults, with a higher percentage of teens (31.6%) reporting abuse during the prior year than adults (23.6%). The rate of abuse during pregnancy was 21.7% for teens and 15.9% for adult women. Adult women scored significantly higher than teens on two measures of mental abuse. Mental abuse was significantly correlated with physical abuse for all subjects.

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