Vascular surgery activity condition is a common language for uncommon times

Common surgery, uncommon complication

Ingrown nail surgery is the one of the most common surgeries in outpatient clinics that are generally perfomed in response to patient complaints. Still, making simple observations, taking patient histories and conducting further tests are often neglected by outpatient clinics. Consequently, it is important to be aware if ingrown nail is associated with any underlying diseases that can lead to m...

Majocchi’s granuloma: A common infection, uncommon for pathologists

Assessment of patient waiting times for vascular surgery.

OBJECTIVES To assess patient waiting times for vascular surgery and to determine if complications of the disease develop while the patients are awaiting surgery. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING A university-affiliated tertiary care institution. PATIENTS All 554 patients who underwent scheduled vascular surgical procedures between April 1995 and October 1996. OUTCOME MEASURES A ...

Machine Translation between Uncommon Language Pairs via a Third Common Language: The Case of Patents

This paper proposes to familiarize the MT users with two major areas of development: (1) To improve translation quality between uncommon language pairs, the use of a third language as the pivot. Various techniques have been shown to be promising when parallel corpora for the uncommon language pairs are not readily available. They require the use of two other language pairs involving a common th...

May-Thurner syndrome: a not so uncommon cause of a common condition.

May-Thurner syndrome is a rarely diagnosed condition in which patients develop iliofemoral deep venous thrombosis (DVT) due to an anatomical variant in which the right common iliac artery overlies and compresses the left common iliac vein against the lumbar spine. This variant has been shown to be present in over 20% of the population; however, it is rarely considered in the differential diagno...