... anterolateral approach, 10 (40%) a posterior approach, and (24%) a combined approach (see table 4) Of those patients with a score of 2–4, (19.3%) underwent an anterolateral approachand 25 (80.7%) ... also suggested that effective surgical treatment of Table 3: Comparison of surgical approaches and mean survival time among Karnofsky's groups Karnofsky score Surgicalapproach Mean survival (months) ... the type of the surgicalapproach in 57 patients with spinal metastases treated surgically and to evaluate the value of these scores in aiding decision making for surgery Materials and methods This...
... search and drafted the manuscript JH helped with chart review and revision of the manuscript PK provided pathology images SH made revisions to manuscript and participated in study design and coordination ... case report and review of the literature Eur J Gynaecol Oncol 2008, 29(2):179-181 doi:10.1186/1477-7819-8-80 Cite this article as: Khan et al.: Indications and recommended approach for surgical ... primary and metastatic melanoma to the gallbladder (MMGB), is the Khan et al World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2010, 8:80 http://www.wjso.com/content/8/1/80 center of current debate [6,7] and is...
... anaesthesia and are associated with shorter hospital stay The vascular patency rates reported in different studies are variable and there are no randomised trials comparing endovascular and open surgical ... arch and innominate, carotid and subclavian arteries Graft patency was good but perioperative mortality and stroke rates were high [8] This led to the introduction of safer extra-anatomic approaches ... acceptable incision which is well tolerated and less painful than standard median sternotomy This approach gives excellent access to ascending aorta, arch and proximal supra aortic trunk Manubriotomy,...
... to fabricate a surgical template with the Straumann gonyX Surgicaland restorative procedure The patient was premedicated and prepared for surgery in the same fashion as case The surgical template ... for fabrication of a Pilot Compu-Guide surgical template The template dictated the angulation, depth, and location of the initial 2-mm osteotomy Surgicaland restorative procedure One hour before ... Dentistry and connected to a templiX plate (Straumann) The templiX plate contained three reference pins that allowed for consistent orientation during digital surgical planning andsurgical template...
... directly to other approaches Regarding applicability, this approach has proven reliable and predictable in accessing the hip and is currently the approach used for all primary and revision THA's ... lata muscles and the deep interval between the rectus femoris and gluteus medius muscles Thus, it is truly an internervous approach, between the femoral and superior gluteal nerves The approach is ... sutured into bone and onto itself during closure.15 This has become the standard direct lateral approach discussed in most textbooks and articles McLauchlan described the Stracathro approach, whereby...
... in both medical andsurgical patients [12] Therefore, we conducted a randomised clinical trial to assess the efficacy and safety of intensive insulin therapy compared with standard glucose control ... involved in the treatment and investigation were unaware of the randomised schedule and the block size Interventions Patients were randomly assigned to receive either standard insulin therapy or ... one, two and four hours if the patient had insulin infusion, and every four and six hours if no insulin was required according to the algorithm A protocol (see additional data files and 2), managed...
... standardized, and should include a minimum wall filter setting of 50 Hz and a Doppler sample volume between and mm (Szatmari et al., 2001) 4 Hemodynamics – New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches ... and blood flow to major organs), CARDFUNC (strength levels of left and right heart), CIRC (pulmonary circulation), REFLEX1 and REFLEX-2 (the activities of sympathetic nerve and vagus nerve, and ... failure and congenital dysplasia Considering RI greater than 0.70 abnormal, the sensitivity and specificity of the RI in differentiating between normal and abnormal kidneys were shown to be 38 and...
... stage (feedback on failures and successes), recording the history and current status of the problem solving process, and giving the user comprehensible and powerful co,ands Hansen, W.J., User engineering ... precautions are taken Paper and pencil studies are a suprisingly useful approachand are valuable since administration is easy Much can be learned about human thought processes and problem solving methods ... choice of independent and dependent variables, selection and assignment of subjects, administration to minimize bias, statistical analysis~ and asaesment of the results This approach can reveal...
... need to respond to patients’ varied perspectives, values, and behaviors about health and well-being Failure to understand and manage social and cultural differences may have significant health consequences ... impact of social and cultural factors on health beliefs and behaviors; (2) be equipped with the tools and skills to manage these factors appropriately through training and education; and (3) empower ... ethnically and racially diverse nation, health care systems and providers need to reflect on and respond to patients’ varied perspectives, values, beliefs, and behaviors about health and well-being...
... and (ii) are treated in Sections and 6, respectively Sections and are devoted to step (iii) Sections and 10 are concerned with Steps (iv) and (v) Section 11 deals with steps (vi) and (vii), and ... Shorey and Tijdeman [46]) gives bounds for both the exponent p and the variables x, y This approach through linear forms in logarithms and Thue equations, which we term the ‘classical’ approach, ... k ≡ ±1 (mod 6) (b) Fk = U p and Lk = V p for some positive integers U and V The proofs of both Lemmas 5.1 and 5.2 make use of Frey curves and levellowering Here and elsewhere where we make use...
... secreted and bound to the hepatocyte Gene Polymorphism and Coronary Heart Disease surface and readily released by heparin It is homologous to LPL and pancreatic lipase and hydrolyzes TGs and phospholipids ... bioactivation and platelet function may be responsible These include CYP2C19 *2, *3 and *17, CYP2C9 *2 and *3, MDR1*2, and functional variants in the genes encoding platelet membrane receptors and intracellular ... 4 Coronary Artery Disease – New Insights and Novel Approaches The coronary artery system consists of two main arteries, the left and right arteries, and their marginal arterial network Anatomically,...
... relation (Re!), verb (Verb), and probability band (Band) The factors Re! and Band had three levels each, and the factor Verb had 10 levels This yielded a total of Re! x Verb x Band = x 10 x = 90 stimuli ... verb and r is an argument slot Li and Abe's algorithm operates on thesaurus-like hierarchies where each leaf node stands for a noun, each internal node stands for the class of nouns below it, and ... co-occurrence frequency, and randomly chose one noun from each band The division ensured that the experimental stimuli represented likely and unlikely verb-argument combinations and enabled us to investigate...
... costs and benefits of regulation to industry and the public (Levidow and Tait, 1992 and Tait and Levidow, 1992) A precautionary approach tends to impose stricter regulations on researchers and ... (Employment, Social Affairs, and Education), DGVI (Agriculture), DG XI (Environment, Consumer Protection and Nuclear Safety), and DG XII (Science, Research and Development) and became the center of ... hand and Canada and the US on the other This was widely seen as a test case for the new SPS Agreement Though the panel and the subsequent appellate body reports did indeed clarify the scope and...
... standardized, and should include a minimum wall filter setting of 50 Hz and a Doppler sample volume between and mm (Szatmari et al., 2001) 4 Hemodynamics – New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches ... and blood flow to major organs), CARDFUNC (strength levels of left and right heart), CIRC (pulmonary circulation), REFLEX1 and REFLEX-2 (the activities of sympathetic nerve and vagus nerve, and ... HEMODYNAMICS – NEW DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES Edited by A Seda Artis Hemodynamics – New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches Edited by A Seda Artis Published by InTech...
... muscle wasting in the hands Symptoms in the advanced cases may include muscle waste in the hands and fore arms, neck and shoulder, vocal cords, which leads to scoliosis and malfunction in chewing, ... muscle tissue and loss of touch sensation of limb, predominantly in the feet and legs, foot drop, and hammer toes The most frequent initial symptoms include foot drop, claw toe, and muscle wasting ... peripheral and central nervous system diseases, and developed new therapeutic approaches towards these diseases Peripheral neuropathy is a common disorder seen by many specialists and can pose...
... Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease 73 Jennifer L Gordon, Kim L Lavoie, André Arsenault, Blaine Ditto and Simon L Bacon Part 35 Childhood and Adolescence 103 Chapter Mood Disorders in Childhood and ... DSM-V and the ICD11, and if they in turn are set for neuroscience The presence of merely a few number of well-validated biomarkers and the early stage in which our understanding of neurobiology and ... role in the maintenance and growth of neurons and synaptic plasticity in the adult brain (Lewin and Barde 1996) and are known to be involved in the pathogenesis of depression and suicide (Duman et...
... Xu, Adam Krzyzak, and Ching Y Suen 1992 Several Methods for Combining Multiple Classiers and Their Applications in Handwritten Character Recognition IEEE Trans on System, Man and Cybernetics, ... coordination, since the conjunction could be missing, and selectional restrictions work on the individual conjuncts (2) (2) John ate (sh and chips|*wish and ships) But if another word depends on the ... subcategorizing verb Accordingly, some approaches take the preposition to be the head of a PP (Robinson, 1970; Lin, 1995), others the NP (Kỹbler and Telljohann, 2002) Still other approaches (Tesniốre, 1959;...
... metabolic pathways of AMP, GMP, IMP and XMP catalyzed by rat brain cytosol were explored using two complementary (experimental and theoretical) approaches Experimental approach determination of enzyme ... 100 (Fig 6) (see [3], and Table 3, for further explanations on the signicance of these parameters) The equation described as V8d and V8r, and the corresponding substrates and products were not ... (without H2O2) and incubated further for 120 At the times indicated, the adenylic charge, ATP and inosine were determined as described in Materials and methods H2O2 evokes a decrease and an increase...
... (epoxy and polyimide), insulators (SiO2 and SiN), semiconductors (Si) and metals (Al, Cu, Ni, Sn and Ti) that all behave differently under varying temperature or stress states Therefore, understanding ... packaging steps like die attach and wire bonding and thus provides batch processing to lower costs, streamlining of handling and shipping logistics, minimal form factor and the avoidance of known ... numerous dissimilar materials and they can experience varying loading conditions Hence, the main approach of this book is that four methods must be combined to understand and control the reliability...
... highly evaluated and licensed by the Food and Drug sensitive and specific, when used in research Administration (U.S.A) for detection of laboratories, these lose specificity and sensitivity M.tuberculosis ... model of history, examination and sputum microscopy has proved itself capable of detecting the majority of infectious cases and, in conjuction with adequate case-finding and 109 treatment, remains ... value of >96% and remains one of the most rapidly performed tests in the detection of pulmonary tuberculosis All other techniques need to be compared critically with microscopy and their diagnostic...