Results Seven of the 41 patients had positive reactions to textile related allergens on the screening or textile series and five were thought to be work-related. Four patients who were patch test positive with the textile series were also positive to relevant allergens on the screening series. Two patients with work-related textile dermatitis were patch test positive to the textile series but n...

MR examinations of the spine were reviewed in 25 patients with a clinical diagnosis of tethered spinal cord. In 21 patients (84%), the level of the tip of the conus was below the mid L2 vertebral body. The causes of the tethering were spinal lipomas (72%), tight filum terminale syndrome (12%), diastematomyelia (8%), and myelomeningocele (8%). These entities were readily identified in all instan...

The coexistence of spinal teratoma of the conus medullaris and arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is exceptional, which has not been reported previously in the literature. The precise mechanism of the coexistence of these conditions is not known, however, the dysembryonic origin of spinal cord teratoma and AVM seems to play a part in this process. A 34-year-old male patient was admitted with lowe...

Abstract. Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) has previously been shown to strongly correlate with gross primary productivity (GPP); however this relationship not yet quantified for the recently launched TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI). Here we use a Gaussian mixture model develop parsimonious between SIF from TROPOMI and GPP flux towers across conterminous United States (...

IN THEIR LETTER, “THE THREAT TO CONE snails” (17 Oct., p. 391), E. Chivian et al. estimate that “hundreds of thousands” of cone snails are sacrificed annually for research purposes. We recognize that habitat loss and possible overexploitation of cone snails may indeed threaten the survival of Conus taxa, but we question Chivian et al.’s estimate. This number is huge and shocking in light of the...

Background: Because of the scarceness and absence of hectic painful radiculopathic feature of L1-L2 disc, surgeons don’t usually pay enough clinical attention to them. Their main manifestation is severe axial pain or myeloradiculopathy failure attributed to conus or high cauda equine syndrome. Methods: During 2006 to 2011, a total of 11 patients with L1 L2 dysfunctions underwent a surgery. Thei...

Background: As a new intraoperative disinfection method, chlorhexidine-wetted textile napkins have been employed in order to cover the upper and lower eyelid edges, eyelid skin, eyelashes, lid margins and palpebral conjunctiva during phacoemulsification cataract extraction. This study was conducted to compare the antimicrobial activity of textile napkins before and after their use. Methods: Thi...

Stellate ganglion stimulation in the anesthetized, open-chest dog consistently resulted in the generation of pressure differences which averaged 20 mm Hg across the infundibular region of the right ventricle. Before stimulation, peak systolic pressures in the sinus and conus were closely matched. Peak sinus pressure showed ah average increase of 184 and 162% during stimulation of the left and r...