Background  The aim of this study was to evaluate the value of planned control postoperative brain computed tomography (CT) scan performed 4 to 6 weeks after the evacuation of chronic subdural hematoma. Materials and Methods  This retrospective study examined 202 patients who during a 2-year period from 2011 and 2012 underwent surgical treatment for chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH). Information...

Unmanned Ground Vehicles are tasked with negotiating off-road terrain while satisfying certain objectives, such as maintaining cover and concealment and arriving at a phase line by a designated time. The problem is complicated by the fact that the terrain is typically not known completely in advance, rendering pre-planned routes useless if selected passageways are obstructed. In this situation,...

BACKGROUND Post-extubation stridor occurs after translaryngeal intubation results to re-intubation in a number of patients. OBJECTIVE To determine the cut-off value of the cuff leak volume test among Thai patients as a predictor for post-extubation stridor MATERIAL AND METHOD Demographic data and cuff leak volume were collected from patients who had been intubated with planned extubation. C...

OBJECTIVE Rhenium is one of the most valuable elements for internal radiotherapy because (186)Re and (188)Re have favorable physical characteristics. However, there are problems when proteins such as antibodies are used as carriers of (186/188)Re. Labeling methods that use bifunctional chelating agents such as MAG3 require the conjugation of the (186/188)Re complex to protein after radiolabelin...

Objective: Rhenium is one of the most valuable elements for internal radiotherapy because Re and Re have favorable physical characteristics. However, there are problems when proteins such as antibodies are used as carriers of Re. Labeling methods that use bifunctional chelating agents such as MAG3 require the conjugation of the Re complex to protein after radiolabeling with the bifunctional che...

For phase II oncology trials, Simon's two-stage design is the most commonly used strategy. However, when clinically unevaluable patients occur, the total number of patients included at each stage differs from what was initially planned. Such situations raise concerns about the operating characteristics of the trial design. This paper evaluates three classical ad hoc strategies and a novel one p...