Adjuvant radiation therapy (RT) after colorectal cancer surgery can prevent local recurrence, but has several side effects. Precise injection of drugs into the affected areas is complicated by radiation-induced fibrosis of soft or connective tissue. A 48-year-old woman experienced severe intractable perineal pain, dysuria, urinary urgency, and frequent urination after rectal cancer surgery and ...

Successful regional anaesthesia can be summed up by the axiom “The right drug, in the right dose, in the right place”.1 The process of getting the drug to the right place has evolved from the routine elicitation of paraesthesia, to the use of peripheral nerve stimulation, and most recently, ultrasound (US) guidance. US guidance has revolutionised regional anaesthesia (or more specifically, peri...

The ganglion impar is an unpaired sympathetic structure located at the level of the sacrococcygeal joint. Blockade of this structure has been utilised to treat chronic perineal pain. Methods to achieve this block often involve the use of fluoroscopy which is associated with radiation exposure of staff involved in providing these procedures. We rep...

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals derived from layered structures exhibit a unique set of properties as elegantly demonstrated for graphene. Semiconducting 2D structures such as MoS2 sheets are attractive building blocks for novel electronic and optoelectronic devices. In this talk, I will report photoluminescence properties of group 6 transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) 2D crystals and discuss h...

finger prints of 68 patients with down's syndrome and 93 controls have been collected and analyzed for topological of formulation of finger tip patterns suggested by loesch (1975). the results showed that there may be great differences in the dictionary of the finger patterns of the patients and their controls. mean lunar and radial patterns showed mostly significant differences among the patie...

background in rhinoplasty, functional and cosmetic problems of the nose are corrected. these problems cause imbalance between the nasal subunit and face. throughout these deformities, there are 4 variants, so there is a need for careful preoperative evaluation either for treatment or prevention of the occurrence. according to functional and aesthetic effects of these variables in rhinoplasty, e...

UNLABELLED Multiple complications have been reported with spinal intervertebral transforaminal injection procedures, despite the use of fluoroscopic needle-positioning measures. We explored an imaging technology (optical coherence tomography, or OCT) for its possible use in spine interventional procedures as a means of providing needle tip vision at the neuroforamen. Optical coherence tomograph...

[1] The design of two new high-stability microwave water vapor radiometers is presented along with a performance evaluation. The radiometers operate next to a spacecraft tracking station at NASA’s Goldstone facility in California, where they will be used to calibrate tropospheric path delay fluctuations during an upcoming gravity-wave search experiment (GWE) involving the Cassini spacecraft. Ob...

BACKGROUND The radial forearm osteocutaneous free flap is considered to be the standard technique for penile construction. One year after their operation, most patients experience a softened phallus, so that they suffer from difficulties in sexual intercourse. In this report, we present our experience with phalloplasty by radial forearm osteocutaneous free flap, as well as an evaluation of the ...