OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of soft tissue gas on the accuracy of foreign body detection by realtime sonography. METHODS This was a prospective randomized study using glass, metal, and bone inserted into turkey breasts to simulate human soft tissue foreign bodies. Air was subsequently injected around a random selection of the foreign bodies to simulate soft tissue gas that can accompany...

This paper examines the foreign financial institutions‟ spillover effects in China‟s banking sector through three channels, foreign strategic investment, employee turnover, and competition using qualitative analyses and quantitative analyses. Through comparing Chinese banks performance between preand postforeign strategic investment, and the OLS regression analyses, we found that the foreign st...

This paper analyzes the existing asymmetry in the US corporate tax law governing the determination of foreign tax credits earned by US firms with foreign subsidiaries. The existing asymmetry results in the US government de facto holding foreign currency put options against US firms with foreign subsidiaries. Combined with the exchange rate volatility, this tax law asymmetry reduces the effectiv...

When people ingest or insert foreign bodies, a brief history may be sufficient to establish the diagnosis, guide initial management decisions, and predict the process required for definitive removal. Sometimes, however, diagnosis and management of a foreign body might require a meticulous history and insightful care. Those at higher risk of having a foreign body include neurologically impaired ...

a World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. b Minister of Foreign Affairs, PB 8114 Dep., N-0032 Oslo, Norway. c Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Paris, France. Correspondence to Jonas Gahr Støre (e-mail: [email protected]). doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.056002 Pandemics, emerging diseases and bioterrorism are readily understood as direct threats to national and global security. But health issues...

Common organic materials like thorns, wood and sand constitute routine accident scene flora and comprise a large percentage of foreign bodies. These low radiopaque foreign bodies present a diagnostic challenge and are routinely missed. In musculoskeletal injuries, failure to detect these foreign bodies may lead to infection, morbidity and patient dissatisfaction. A universal investigation proto...

We present two cases of self-inflicted urethrovesical foreign body in children. Case 1 was a 6-year-old girl admitted with a history of self-introduction of a pin. The X-ray revealed the pin as 3.5 cm in length and in the bladder. The foreign body was removed endoscopically. Case 2 was a 13-year-old boy with a self-introduced packing needle, 13 cm in length, partially in the urethra. The end an...

Hemostatic agents, routinely used in neurosurgery to achieve intraoperative hemostasis may cause foreign body reaction. These may produce clinically symptomatic and radiologically apparent mass lesions. It should be kept in mind that retained cotton or rayon materials may mimic the appearance of a tumor or an abscess on MRI scan, especially at sides of previous craniotomies. Here we report a ca...

Foreign body aspiration (FBA) is a potentially life-threatening event, more common in children than in adults. In the year 2001 in Italy, inhaled FB accounted for 30 deaths from respiratory obstruction in children [1]. The signs and symptoms of FBA vary according to the age of the subject, the type of object aspirated, the location of the object, and the elapsed time since the event. The remova...

The presence of a foreign body in the periapical tissues can cause endodontic failure by triggering an inflammatory response and a subsequent foreign body reaction. This inflammatory response, which can occur to varying degrees, appears radiographically as a radiolucency that can remain asymptomatic for many years. A foreign object can reach the apical region by accident or iatrogenic procedure...