Asymptomatic microscopic hematuria is a common finding that demands urologic evaluation. Of the 236 patients over the age of 40, 6.8% were found to have a genitourinary cancer, while 27.5% had other significant urologic disease. However, 52.1% of the patients had unknown etiology of microscopic hematuria and 13.6% had insignificant urologic lesions. Of the 72 patients under the age of 40 a posi...

In the cat cerebellar cortex, as in most higher vertebrates, the descending branches of the basket cell axon envelop the Purkinje cell body in the region of its axon hillock in a basket-like arborization (Rambn y Cajal, 1909) . This report further characterizes the basket formations of the cat and describes septate junctions between the descending branches of the basket cell axons and between s...

In a patient with a mid-common bile duct stone, the traction wires of a mechanical lithotriptor snapped, resulting in lithotriptor basket impaction. Simultaneous occurrence of these two potential complications of endoscopic stone extraction is very rarely reported. Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy failed to fragment the stone entrapped within the impacted basket. Endoscopic intracorporeal ...

In text books as well as in the business literature, market basket analysis is often promoted as a means to obtain product associations to base a retailer’s promotion strategy on. They argue that associated products with a high lift/interest can be promoted effectively by only discounting just one of the two products. Implicitly, they argue that market basket analysis automatically identifies c...

An educational program is described that was developed with the specific purpose of enhancing resident performance on the pathology portion of the Urologic National Board Examination. A pathologist and a urologist serve as moderators to ensure appropriate clinico-pathologic correlation. The program consists of a series of interactive lectures/discussions offered in a repeating annual cycle that...

A51-year-oldmanwith chronicpancreatitis presented with recurrent postprandial epigastric pain. Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen revealed a9-mmpancreaticolith in the main pancreatic duct (MPD) of the head portion. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)wasperformed to remove the pancreaticolith. After the pancreatic duct had been cannulated, sphincterotomy was performed. We ...

Research on constructing alternate forms of assessment center exercises is very scarce. This study examines the effectiveness of a cloning procedure (incident isomorphic approach) for developing alternate forms of a computerized in-basket. In this approach, original and alternate items are essentially similar (they are based on the same critical incident), while being superficially different (t...

Lower limb injuries are the main cause of temporary and permanent disability among motorcyclists in Malaysia. They cause non-fatal but serious injuries requiring hospitalisation. Detailed studies on factors influencing lower limb injuries are justified in an attempt to reduce the occurrence of these injuries. This study presents a computer simulation of the crash behaviour of the basket of a sm...

In this paper we consider an analytical valuation of Basket Default Swaps. Our solution is based on a continuous-time model in a conditional independence framework. We use the order statistics of the default times of the names in the basket to find a recursive algorithm for computation of the risk-neutral distribution of the default process of the basket. We derive an analytical expression for ...

during ERCP using a single-balloon enteroscope in a patient with a Roux-en-Y gastrectomy Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in patients with altered small-bowel anatomy is challenging, often needing device-assisted enteroscopy [1]. We report on a complicated ERCP procedure using a single-balloon enteroscope (SIF Q180, Olympus) in a 90-year-old patient who had undergone Roux-e...