conclusions it seems that considering the clinical examination of patients before sa focusing on lumbar spinous process status, presence of lumbar deformity, calculation of bmi and radiological signs of lumbar vertebrae can be helpful in predicting sa difficulty. results hundred and one patients were enrolled. of these patients, 50 (49.5%) underwent sa by the first attempt of the first space, i...

: pulpotomy is an accepted treatment for the management of cariously exposed pulps in symptom free primary molars. the purpose of this study was to compare the clinical and radiological outcomes of three different single-visit vital pulp therapies including pulpotomy with electrosurgery (es), formocresol (fc) and ferric sulfate (fs) in cariously exposed primary molar teeth . materials & methods...

There are three parts to this talk – related in rather tangential ways. First, I will give a recap of an argument developed in a couple of earlier talks – at IIiX in 2008 and at the SIGIR evaluation workshop in 2009. The gist of the argument is about thinking about IR as a science, and the consequences Appears in the Proceedings of The 2nd International Workshop on Contextual Information Access...

Resumo. Com a rápida evolução dos sistemas computacionais, simulações numéricas baseadas em modelagem computacional têm alcançado soluções cada vez mais realistas. Ainda assim, o processo de simulação é complexo, exigindo grande capacidade computacional e produzindo muitos arquivos auxiliares com os resultados das simulações. Uma grande quantidade de arquivos, como os produzidos durante o proce...

AIMS Medical radiological exposure is associated with an additional risk of cancer. Children with repaired congenital heart disease (CHD) are theoretically at a relatively greater cancer risk as the radiological exposure can be intensive in these patients. Chromosomal aberrations test (CA) and micronucleus assay (MN) in peripheral blood lymphocytes are biomarkers of chromosomal damage and inter...

OBJECTIVES: With increasing experience, endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) has been extended to patients with less suitable aorto-iliac anatomy in an attempt to reduce peri-operative mortality. However, more complex EVAR procedures may take longer and can result in higher rates of complications, additional interventional procedures and more frequent radiological imaging, which may offse...

Objectives. To present a series of ipsilateral axillary artery to axillary vein loop arm grafts as an alternative vascular access procedure for haemodialysis in patients with difficult access. Design. Retrospective case series. Methods. Patients who underwent an axillary loop arteriovenous graft from September 2009 to September 2012 were included. Preoperative venous imaging to exclude central ...

INTRODUCTION Holmium lasers and ultrasound probes are widely used in urinary stone lithotripsy. The authors present a comparison of both methods in urinary stones lithotripsy. MATERIALS AND METHODS We analyzed 164-patients who underwent endoscopic lithotripsy. Ninety-eight of them (group I) were treated with the holmium laser Omni-Pulse Max 80 and were compared to the other 66-patients (group...

Understanding anatomy of the vascular variations of kidney is essential for the clinician to perform procedures such as renal transplantation, interventional radiological procedures and renal vascular operations more safely and efficiently. In order to facilitate the clinical approaches, we studied renal arterial pattern in 50 formalin-fixed cadavers, on 100 kidneys. We observed prehilar multip...

Supracondylar fracture of the humerus is the second most common fracture in children (16.6%) and the most common elbow fracture. These fractures are classified using the modified Gartland classification. Type III and type IV are considered to be totally displaced. A totally displaced fracture is one of the most difficult fractures to manage and may lead to proceeding to open procedures to achie...