Zhang W, Jones A, Doherty M. Does paracetamol (acetaminophen) reduce the pain of osteoarthritis? A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials Ann Rheum Dis 2004;63:901–7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Traditional cooling technologies are now become inadequate for electronic chips due to size reduction and increase in generated heat flux. Microchannel sink (MCHS) is promising candidate its superior performance than competitors. The aim of this study investigate the hydrothermal MCHS with novel trefoil shape ribs. three configurations ribs are: MC-AWTR (all wall ribs), MC-SWTR (side MC-BWTR (b...

This project consists in the evaluation of the feasibility to estimate the age of death from the analysis of 3D X-ray images depicting human fourth ribs. An image processing chain is described, aiming at automatically analyzing the sternal end of the fourth rib, which is known to be reliable to evaluate the person age, since distinctive modifications occur at this extremity during a human life....

Sixteen patients with pyogenic osteomyelitis of the ribs are reported; ages ranged from 3 months to 42 years and 10 were female. Right sided ribs were affected in 10 cases and single ribs in 12. Antecedent causes included empyema thoracis (56%) and blunt chest trauma (19%). Fourteen out of 16 patients presented with discharging chest wall sinuses and five patients had associated swellings on th...

Patients with fractured ribs admitted to an intensive care unit are in two categories: (a) multiple fractures with a flail segment; (b) one or more fractures but without a flail segment. One of the latter group is described in this report. Usually these patients are treated in a general ward and are admitted to the intensive care unit when pain prevents coughing, deep breathing and bronchial to...

This fracture has been variously reported as a developmental anomaly, a synchondrosis or a pseudarthrosis, but most authors now regard it as a true fracture. As far as can be ascertained, only 263 cases of isolated fracture of the first rib have been recorded in the literature and only seventeen of these were bilateral. The majority of the recorded cases have been found incidentally during rout...

Twelve clinical trials have documented that prednisone or prednisolone in doses of 10 mg/day or less is efficacious to improve function, maintain status and/or slow radiographic progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). An early trial reported by de Andrade et al. [Ann Rheum Dis 1964; 23: 158–162] in 1964 indicated that 5 mg of prednisolone at night was preferred to 5 mg of predni...