... release, followed by either staged (one week apart) or synchronous posterior instrumentation and spinal fusion Routine standing anterior- posterior radiograph was taken for each patient to determine ... during thoracoscopic anterior release, and the posterior surgery was performed week later It did, however, provide the conditions to prove the effectiveness of anterior release, and verify the in ... Figure Standing1radiograph before anterior release Standing radiograph before anterior release Two methods were utilized to test for the effectiveness of thoracoscopic anterior release in increasing...
... system asymmetry of the proximalfemur in normal condition with the predominance of the left proximal epiphysis in providing moving and support function The right proximalfemur meta-epiphysis is ... joint motion, we studied the straight and vertical diameters of the femoral head and the length of the femoral neck anteriorly, posteriorly, superiorly and inferiorly For the angulated values, ... influence of static and dynamic stress This, in turn, defines the external shape and internal morphology of the femur' s bone structure [7-11] Nevertheless, the peculiarities of the femurand its epiphysis...
... force alone Axial and torsional loading of the actuator produced distal (Fd), medial (Fm) and anterior- posterior (Fap) loading of the femoral head due to the mounting geometry and the offset between ... translational micromotion and the total rotational migration and micromotion were on average smaller with Fabd than without Fabd (p < 0.01), see Figures and In contrast, the anterior- posterior hip contact ... femoral head and the central axis of the actuator, doff (32 mm) (b) Resulting forces on the femur for group (c) Group - hip contact force and abductor (d) Resulting forces on the femur for group...
... the prosthesis into the proximalfemur Tissue samples (bone- and soft tissue) were sent for bacteriological and histological examination After proper leg positioning, the femur was prepared with ... Table 1: Patients’ data, surgical procedures, and causative organisms at the site of hip spacer implantation in the treatment of coxitis andproximalfemur infections after osteosynthesis Patient ... the one of a hip joint with a standard prosthesis Via a transgluteal approach the proximalfemur was demonstrated After radical debridement of potentially infected and necrotic soft-tissues, the...
... the anterior cruciate ligament: A comparison of patellar tendon autograft and fourstrand hamstring tendon autograft Am J Sports Med 1999; 27: 444–454 12 Dandy, DJ, and H Poirier Chondromalacia and ... width and resulting excessive lateral thrust on the patella, and postural and sociological factors such as wearing high heels and sitting with legs adducted can influence the incidence and severity ... it, and realignment surgery could be necessary in very selected cases Myths and Truths about Patellofemoral Disease Myth: Anterior knee pain and patellar instability are always self-limited and...
... the anterior cruciate ligament: A comparison of patellar tendon autograft and fourstrand hamstring tendon autograft Am J Sports Med 1999; 27: 444–454 12 Dandy, DJ, and H Poirier Chondromalacia and ... width and resulting excessive lateral thrust on the patella, and postural and sociological factors such as wearing high heels and sitting with legs adducted can influence the incidence and severity ... it, and realignment surgery could be necessary in very selected cases Myths and Truths about Patellofemoral Disease Myth: Anterior knee pain and patellar instability are always self-limited and...
... patients with modular and custom made endoprosthetic replacements Patients and methods Between 2001 to 2007, 100 consecutive patients underwent resection of the proximalfemurand modular endo- http://www.josr-online.com/content/3/1/50 ... appropriate segment of the proximalfemur was resected In patients requiring proximal femoral replacement and whose disease spared the greater trochanter, this was osteotomised and reattached to the ... metastatic tumours of the proximalfemur using the modular system Results Between 2001 and 2007, 100 patients underwent modular endoprosthetic replacement of the proximalfemur http://www.josr-online.com/content/3/1/50...
... following mini -posterior and standard posterior approach surgery Although it is generally accepted that the level of the muscle-related enzymes and proteins examined, i.e CPK, CK-MM and myoglobin, ... a minimally invasive posterior approach and the standard posterior approach for total hip arthroplasty A prospective and comparative study Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2010 5:46 ... between the mini -posterior approach and the standard posterior approach weeks after implantation of hip endoprostheses [11,36] A weakness of this study is clearly the lack of any randomization of...
... applicable, and complications All open fractures were treated with emergency department bedside irrigation and debridement and antibiotics There is no standardized protocol for antibiotic type and for ... 1993, 296:200–206 17 Gustilo RB, Anderson JT: Prevention of infection in the treatment of one thousand and twenty-five open fractures of long bones: retrospective and prospective analyses J Bone ... traumatic knee arthrotomy with associated closed femur fracture Four patients fit this criterion and were excluded, bringing the number of patients with open femur fracture to 38 Three fractures were...
... Point Theory and Applications more general Banach spaces; see Kamimura and Takahashi and Ohsawa and Takahashi In 2004, Kamimura et al considered the algorithm 1.2 in a uniformly smooth and uniformly ... monotone operator and the complementary problem The results obtained in this paper improve and extend the corresponding results of Kamimura et al , and Iiduka and Takahashi , and many others Preliminaries ... “Monotone operators and the proximal point algorithm,” SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, vol 14, no 5, pp 877–898, 1976 S Kamimura and W Takahashi, “Strong convergence of a proximal- type algorithm...
... laparoscopic proximal excision and double-tract reconstruction while early gastric cancer with lesions spreading in the upper and middle regions employed laparoscopic total gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y ... gathered information and contributed to writing of the paper YS and TM contributed patients and information on the patients RH and SY were the co-surgeon on the cases TT reviewed paper and technique ... esophagojejunostomy is unnecessary and has been made simple However, further case studies must be assessed and monitored to test for safety and reliability in a randomized fashion Consent Written...
... HYS were treated as random with normal prior (n) in the analyses of data sets for designs II-F, II-N and II-U where HYS were fixed, random and normally distributed, and random and drawn from the ... Zeger and Karim (1991) implemented Bayesian analysis with a Gibbs sampler based on the posterior density of the parameters rather than the joint posterior of parameters and missing data Zeger and ... distribution the resulting posterior distribution can be proper or improper (eg, Berger and Bernardo, 1992a, b; Hobert and Casella, 1994) Hober and Casella (1994) established necessary and sufficient conditions...
... the superior and middle trunks and lateral andposterior cords and another nerve graft was looped through the inferior trunk, medial cord and medial root of median nerve In Cases and (C5,6 ruptures ... supply The anterior plane of dissection is developed by disinserting the levator scapulae, the posteriorand middle scalene muscles and retracting them anteriorly and superiorly (anterior black ... graft is looped through the superior and middle trunks and lateral andposterior cords and another nerve graft is looped through the inferior trunk, medial cord and medial root of median nerve In...
... dominated In England and Wales these two combined accounted for 43 per cent of deposits and 39 per cent of accounts In Scotland they accounted for 40 and 38 per cent In Ireland, however, they ... both England and Wales and in Scotland the average withdrawal was much bigger than the average deposit, but this was not so in Ireland Note too that the average deposit was highest in Ireland by ... deposited per inhabitant in Ireland or in Britain around the same time Most banks were located in New England and in the Middle Atlantic states: vast swathes of the west and south still contained none.14...
... Asp40 at the haem proximal side alters the cyanide binding property only slightly, and may not significantly affect the exogenous ligand binding access channel at the haem distal side and/ or structure ... a hydroxide anion (or water molecule) is an axial ligand trans to His77, the endogenous (proximal) axial ligand [4] Upon haem reduction, ligand switching from the hydroxide anion to the side chain ... auto-oxidation rates and catalytic activities of Ec DOS Breakage of the salt bridge between Asp40 and Arg85, and the hydrogen bond network consisting of Asp40, two water molecules and His77, appear...
... other and conspire against any robust economic recovery: First, continued deleveraging by banks, firms and households is holding back normal credit flows and consumer and investment demand Second, ... domestic demand growth and smaller trade surpluses Meanwhile, the short-term policy concern for many developing countries will be to prevent rising and volatile food and commodity prices and exchange-rate ... (c) Transition and developing economies (c) Transition and developing economies 70 2011 68 66 64 China and India Transition and all other developing economies 60 58 Transition and all other developing...
... Wong and W M Lee (Eur J Biochem 269) Mer expression in the testis, we have cloned and characterized the mouse Mer promoter, and identified Sp1, Sp3 and E2F as important contributors to the proximal ... performed and the results showed that double-stranded oligonucleotide of the region )30/)14 containing the E2F cis-element produced shifted bands (a, b and c) with TM4 nuclear proteins (lanes and 3, ... (lanes and 5) are labelled as a and b (B and C) Mutation of Sp1 (B) and E2F (C) binding sequences abolishes protein– DNA binding EMSA was performed using TM4 nuclear protein extracts and mutant...
... [7.7]/[11.3] µm and [8.6]/[11.3] µm ratios, but the 6.2, 7.7, and 8.6 µm features include blended PAH+ and PAH0 bands As we show here, the 11.0 µm band is a purely cationic band and the 11.2 µm band is ... 2010) (top) and BSS (bottom) The left panel depicts an observed spectra which is fit with both the database and the BSS extracted spectra The middle and right panels are the cation (middle) and neutral ... splitting of the initial 11.2 µm PAH band into two bands at 11.0 µm and 11.4 µm due to the Si adsorption on the PAH edge creates and a blue-shifted 6.2 µm band We argue here (see Section 6.2),...
... trembled and Kirk's right hand flicked to his holster His pistol was cold against his fingers and he let it fit loosely in his hand, the barrel half-raised The bush shivered again, and then all ... Positively." Loren froze the motion of his hand and stared at Kirk His lips trembled, and then suddenly he put his hands in front of his face He bent forward, and Kirk felt his nerves jumping, watching ... out and ran a hand softly along the creature's long neck Kirk tried to think, testing his muscles without moving, and he remembered then the ripping along his right arm He looked at the arm and...
... the primer shown in Table 1, and subcloned into pCMV–HA at EcoRI ⁄ XhoI sites Plasmids pCMV–Sp1 and pCMV–AP-2a were confirmed by sequencing, and used to overexpress Sp1 and AP-2a in mammalian cells ... SP1 and AP-2a regulate KCTD10 R Liu et al A B Fig Genomic structure of human and mouse KCTD10 genes, and the 5¢-flanking region sequence of human KCTD10 (A) Genomic organization of human and mouse ... basal promoter activity of KCTD10; and SP1 and AP-2a can regulate the promoter activity and endogenous KCTD10 expression oppositely through binding this region SP1 and AP-2a regulate KCTD10 Results...