Uretero-Pelvic Junction Obstruction (UPJO) is a common congenital anomaly that may need pyeloplasty to prevent renal function deterioration. The purpose of this study was to describe a modified use of jj stent catheter in pyeloplasty for infant with UPJO. A series of 12 children, between 3 and 10 months, underwent stenting open pyeloplasty. In each patient a 6 French Foley catheter was placed w...

The friction contact boundary between the tool flank of milling cutter and machining transition surface is important indicator to reveal third deformation zone relationship assessing frictional wear performance cutter. existing models for identification pay attention maximum width accumulated on flank, ignoring variability overall local morphology flank. Aimed at influence vibration instantaneo...

The current experimental study is to investigate the effects of process parameters (cutting speed, feed rate and depth of cut) on performance characteristics (surface roughness, machining force and flank wear) in hard turning of AISI 4340 steel with multilayer CVD (TiN/TiCN/Al2O3) coated carbide insert. Combined effects of cutting parameter (v, f, d) on performance outputs (Ra, Fm and VB) ar...

Flank pain with hematuria is a common chief complaint in the emergency department (ED). Patients are often diagnosed with renal calculi or pyelonephritis and discharged with analgesics or antibiotics and follow-up. This case study describes a patient who presented to the ED with a 1 week history of flank pain and hematuria and was subsequently found to have a large renal mass on bedside ultraso...

Appendicitis presenting with left flank pain has only been reported once in the literature. The varying presenting symptoms are thought to be due to the position of the appendixin this case, a pelvic appendix also involving the small bowel with reported perforation risk reported to rise with increasing diagnostic delay, prompt diagnosis and treatment is necessary to prevent any unnecessary morb...

This paper presents a positioning strategy for flank milling ruled surfaces. It is a modification of a positioning method developed by Bedi et al. [1]. A cylindrical cutting tool is initially positioned tangential to the two boundary curves on a ruled surface. Optimization is used to move these tangential points to different curves on the ruled surface to reduce the error. A second optimization...

A 56-year-old woman with sickle-cell trait (hemoglobin electrophoresis with 53.5% hemoglobin A, 3.7% hemoglobin A2, 41.7% hemoglobin S and 1.1% hemoglobin F) was seen for recurrent episodes of ‘bilateral’ flank pain associated with gross hematuria and passage of cellular debris. These episodes had occurred on an infrequent basis for many years and seemed to be triggered by fasting. Her past med...