Bladder calculies are stones or calcified materials found in the bladder. Foreign bodies that come into contact with urine may cause bladder stones. Examples of foreign body include suture materials, clips, catheters, ureteral stents, urinary incontinence meshes migration an intrauterine device. A 63-year-old female patient was admitted to our urology clinic dysuria, frequent urination and mixe...

This study reviews the Dicharax species in Thailand. Altogether ten are reported, four of which new to science and described herein. They borealis Jirapatrasilp & Páll-Gergely sp. nov. , burchi panhai pongrati Tongkerd Alycaeus davisi Godwin-Austen, 1914 is regarded as a junior subjective synonym cucullatus Theobald, 1870 (= D. ) based on similar depressed-conical shell shape, long sutu...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy of Pelvicol xenograft use during abdominal sacrocolpopexy to repair pelvic organ prolapse (POP). PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 27 consecutive women with symptomatic POP were included in this study. A POP-quantification system and International Continence Society classification were used. Functional and anatomical outcomes were assessed. Subjective outcomes a...

Reconstruction of severe pelvic bone loss is a challenging problem in hip revision surgery. Between January 1992 and December 2000, 97 hips with periprosthetic osteolysis underwent acetabular revision using bulk allografts and the Burch-Schneider antiprotrusio cage (APC). Twenty-nine patients (32 implants) died for unrelated causes without additional surgery. Sixty-five hips were available for ...

In colour science, matching functions (CMFs) are essential for measuring how sensitive the human eye is to various light wavelengths and determining of stimuli in viewing situations. It has traditionally taken a lot time effort conduct colour-matching studies describe an observer’s perception colour. This article presents simple compact 3D-printed colorimeter designed experiments. A pilo...

95 Estimating heritability, the proportion of variation in phenotypic values due to (additive) genetic effects, is an important subject matter to plant and animal breeders alike. In most applications there is not an analytic expression for the restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimator of heritability since it is obtained via an iterative procedure. The focus of this paper is to find a clos...

We evaluated the long-term efficacy of laparoscopic Burch colposuspension for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women. A total of 68 patients who underwent extraperitoneal laparoscopic Burch colposuspensions with more than a 3-yr follow-up were included. The colposuspension was performed by using two non-absorbable sutures on each side. The patients were considered to be cured of SUI if they...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated the antibacterial activity of some plants used in folklore medicine to treat diarrhoea in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. METHODS The acetone extracts of Acacia mearnsii De Wild., Aloe arborescens Mill., A. striata Haw., Cyathula uncinulata (Schrad.) Schinz, Eucomis autumnalis (Mill.) Chitt., E. comosa (Houtt.) Wehrh., Hermbstaedtia odorata (Burch. ex ...