objectives: knee osteoarthritis (oa) is a leading cause of disability in older adults. in current study, the effects of three types of orthoses on pain reduction were evaluated in oa patients in iran. methods & materials: in this prospective clinical trial, thirty six patients consisting of 11 men and 25 women with age (mean±sd) of 54.56±2.82 years and diagnosis of mild to moderate knee oa incl...

conversion of knee arthrodesis to total knee arthroplasty is a difficult procedure accompanied by many complications due to soft tissue and extensor mechanism contracture and bone defects. we report two cases of distal femur osteosarcoma that had been undergone wide resection arthrodesis initially. arthrodesis was converted to total knee arthroplasty with hinged prosthesis after many years. we ...

Six new species of Fergusobia, from large multilocular shoot bud galls on two species of Angophora and four species of Eucalyptus from both subgenera Eucalyptus and Symphyomyrtus, are described. Fergusobia cosmophyllae Davies n. sp. is characterized by the combination of a C-shaped parthenogenetic female with a short arcuate conoid tail, a broad (small a ratio) arcuate infective female with an ...

By RAYMOND D. A. PETERSON AND ROBERT A. GooD T HE CHICKEN has two distinct gut-associated lymphoid organs, the thymus and the bursa of Fabriciiis ( fig. 1 ) . Although these organs lie at opposite ends of the chicken’s gastrointestinal tract, they have certain similarities that have prompted investigators to consider them together.1’2 The lobules of lymphoid tissue that characterize both of the...

numerous techniques for injection into the distal sesamoid bursa (navicular bursa) have been described, especially in equine, but there are few specific descriptions regarding this practice being done in cattle. five different techniques were compared for injection into the distal sesamoid bursa in cattle including distal plantar approach parallel with the coronary band, proximal plantar approa...

Correspondence to: Erdem Cubukcu, MD Department of Medical Oncology, Uludag University Medical School, Nilufer, 16059, Bursa,Turkey. Tel: +9

Muhammed Emin Akkoyunlu, Yasemin Akkoyunlu, Ismail Necati Hakyemez, Fatma Erboy, Gulhan Arvas, Turan Aslan Bezmialem Vakif University, Department of Chest Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey Bezmialem Vakif University, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Istanbul, Turkey Bursa Edicational and Rsearch Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Bursa, T...

Five weeks old guinea fowls were inoculated intraocularly with a 20% bursal suspension containing a local Nigerian isolate of infectious burfa! disease virus (IBDV) which had a bursal lesion titre of 10· per 0.5 mI. No clinical signs were observed. Gross lesions were absent and microscopic lesions were not found in the bursa, spleen and kidney on days 3 and 5 post infection (PI). IBDV antigen w...