OBJECTIVES Cutaneous abscesses have traditionally been treated with incision and drainage (I&D) and left to heal by secondary closure. The objective was to compare the healing rates of cutaneous abscesses following I&D after primary or secondary closure. METHODS This was a randomized, controlled, trial, balanced by center, with blocked randomization created by a random-number generator. One u...

conclusions vacuum-assisted abdominal closure is a good technique for temporary abdominal closure. in patients who are unable to achieve fascial closure, skin closure alone is safe. results after 157 trauma laparotomies, 35 (22%) were open abdomen cases with an average injury severity score was 35. ninety-four percent of open abdomens occurred after damage-control surgery. temporary vacuum-assi...

We address the manipulation of planar objects by multiple cooperating mobile robots using the concept of Object Closure. In contrast to Form or Force Closure, Object Closure is a condition under which the object is trapped so that there is no feasible path for the object from the given position to any position that is beyond a specified threshold distance. Once Object Closure is achieved, the r...

This paper researches on potential relations of dependency space, closure system and rough set theory, and mainly focuses on solving some essential problems of rough set theory based on dependency space and closure system respectively. Firstly, we pretreat an information system into a relatively simple derivative system, in which dependency space and closure system are generated; Secondly, by m...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the results of simple closure using bilateral anterior pubic osteotomy to achieve a tension-free approximation of the pubis and abdominal wall in patients with bladder exstrophy. PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective study carried out between 2006 and 2009 included 15 patients (13 boys and 2 girls; age range 3-47 months). Of these patients, three had recurrent exstrophy whi...

INTRODUCTION A safe closure technique of transluminal access is essential for the widespread application of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES). AIM To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a novel single loop-and-clips closure technique (KING closure). MATERIAL AND METHODS An experimental survival study using female laboratory pigs was performed. A gastrotomy wa...

The ideal treatment for the perforation of duodenal ulcer has not yet been established. Accepted methods vary from simple closure to immediate definitive surgery. Simple closure is the general standard procedure against which other methods are evaluated. It is simple, safe and effective for the treatment of emergency problem but provides no protection on long term basis. Several studies have sh...

This report describes the development of a fast and reasonably accurate model for the prediction of energy production in offshore wind farms taking wake effects into account. The model has been implemented as a windows application called Fuga which can run in batch mode or as a graphical user interface. Fuga is briefly described. The model is based on alinearization technique which is described...