RARE CONSECUTIVE FEMORAL LESSER TROCHANTERIC AVULSION IN AN ADOLESCENT FOLLOWING SPORTING ACTIVITIES; A CASE REPORT

Rare consecutive femoral lesser trochanteric avulsion in an adolescent following sporting activities; a case report

Avulsion of the lesser trochanter is a rare but disturbing condition, which usually occurs in males between the ages of 7-16 years with significant physical activities or in athletes.Diagnosis is more often than not challenging, but with a good history, physical examination, and imaging modality, diagnosis can be clinched, and the prognosis is good

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Graph contrastive learning with node-level accurate difference

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has attracted extensive research interest due to its powerful ability to capture latent structural and semantic information of graphs in a self-supervised manner.Existing GCL methods commonly adopt predefined graph augmentations to generate two contrastive views.Subsequently, they design a contrastive pretext task b

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Perceptions towards the prescribing of antibiotics by pharmacists and the use of antibiotics in primary care in South Africa

Introduction: Antibiotics deserve their place a powerful pillar in modern medical care, but the development of antibiotic resistance is emerging faster than the availability of new antibiotics.This poses a Dust Pans major threat to public health.The primary aim was to determine the perceptions towards the prescribing of antibiotics by pharmacists a

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