The clinical determination of an infected kidney cyst may be difficult in a patient with ADPKD. The typical presentation of fever and abdominal pain carries a broad differential that includes pyelonephritis, infected kidney stones, perinephric or perihepatic abscess, cyst hemorrhage, or even intra-abdominal pathology unrelated to ADPKD. Conventional imaging with ultrasound, computed tomography,...

Spillage of gallstones (6-40%) are common during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Development of intraperitoneal and perihepatic abscesses are relatively rare (<0.1%). However, it may pose a diagnostic dilemma mimicking intra-abdominal tumor due to their similar radiologic appearance. CASE REPORT We present a 57-year-old woman with history of cholecystectomy 8 years prior who presented with a su...

BACKGROUND Severe liver injury in trauma patients still accounts for significant morbidity and mortality. Operative techniques in liver trauma are some of the most challenging. They include the broad and complex area, from damage control to liver resection. MATERIAL AND METHOD This is a retrospective study of 121 trauma patients with hepatic trauma American Association for Surgery of Trauma (...

We extend the concept of packing dimension profiles, due to Falconer and Howroyd (1997) and Howroyd (2001), and use our extension in order to determine the packing dimension of an arbitrary image of a general Lévy process.

An equivalent definition of packing dimension is given for a set in d-dimensional Euclidean space by using its component sets as packings. It is applied to determine the packing dimensions of a class of subsets with prescribed relative group frequencies. c © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Let X = {X(t), t ∈ RN} be a Gaussian random field with values in Rd defined by X(t) = ( X1(t), . . . , Xd(t) ) , ∀ t ∈ R , where X1, . . . , Xd are independent copies of a centered real-valued Gaussian random field X0. We consider the case when X0 is anisotropic and study the packing dimension of the range X(E), where E ⊆ RN is a Borel set. For this purpose we extend the original notion of pack...

In this work, we focus on the centered Hausdorff measure, packing and Hewitt–Stromberg measure that determines modified lower box dimension Moran fractal sets. The equivalence of these measures for a class is shown by having strong separation condition. We give sufficient condition equality dimension, dimensions. As an application, obtain some relevant conclusions about dimensions image τ-invar...

We study many-particle transport in randomly jammed packing of spheres at different particle Péclet numbers ( Pe*). demonstrate that a modified Nakagami-m function describes velocity probability distributions when deposition occurs. assess the universality said through comparison against Lagrangian simulations various types as well experimental data from literature. construe function's physical...

PID is manifested by a continuum of inflammation from the lower genital tract to the upper genital tract. Evidence of this inflammation can be confirmed by performing a saline preparation of the vaginal secretions to document a marked increase in the number of inflammatory cells (A). Evidence ofmucopus further documents lower genital tract inflammation (B). Laparoscopy visually confirms the pre...