conclusion we believe that active briefing of patients who need to undergo neck and bone biopsies and have high anxiety score by healthcare personnel is an effective method to control psychological mood and increase the efficiency of treatment. background ultrasound-guided biopsy procedures are the most prominent methods that increase the trauma, stress and anxiety experienced by the patients. ...

The correct management, with the classic techniques, of the thoracic deformity in Poland's syndrome is difficult, with often insatisfactory results. The current surgical treatment involves the use of prothetic material and/or different flaps with their own complications and scares. The experience of our team with fat grafting (we named lipomodeling) in breast reconstruction helped us to propose...

The trunk has been shown to work as an active segment rather than a passenger unit during gait and it is felt that trunk kinematics should be given more consideration during gait assessment. While 3-dimensional assessment of the thorax with respect to the pelvis and laboratory can provide a comprehensive description of trunk movement, the majority of existing 3-D thorax models demonstrate short...

background: computed tomography (ct) scan is one the most useful devices in chest imaging. ct scan can be used in mediastinal abnormality, lungs, and pleural evaluations. according to the high prevalence and different causes of pulmonary nodules, we designed this study to evaluate the prevalence and the types of pulmonary nodules in noncancerous patients who underwent chest multi-detector ct (m...

In this paper, a ribcage FE model of the 50 percentile male composed of all quadrilateral and hexahedral elements were developed using an interactive multi-block hex meshing approach. The block-building and meshing techniques for reducing the model development effort and time were presented by the use of the anatomical symmetry and multiple block edition tools. Furthermore, regional variations ...

Background: The scoliometer was developed to analyze the axial rotation of the trunk in patients with idiopathic scoliosis. However, there is controversy regarding the reliability of the measures obtained with this device. Objective: To test the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of the scoliometer in patients with scoliosis. Methods: 24 volunteers of both sex with idiopathic scoliosis dia...

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a highly unstable problem with respect to measurement and modeling errors. With clinical measurements, knowledge about the body shape is usually uncertain. Since the use of an incorrect model domain in the measurement model is bound to lead to severe estimation errors, one possibility is to estimate both the conductivity and parametrization of the domain...