Objectives. To assess the outcome of transoral laser-assisted microsurgery (TLM) with regards to local and distant tumour control, quality of voice and swallowing. Design. Retrospective review of patients with five-year follow-up period. Setting. Royal Derby Hospital Head and Neck Department. Participants. All patients undergoing TLM with a diagnosis of Tis, T1, or T2 glottic tumour following e...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Evaluate the oncologic outcomes of patients with early and select advanced primary glottic squamous cell carcinoma (SCCa) managed by transoral laser microsurgery (TLM). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. METHODS Ninety cases of TLM-managed primary glottic SCCa were identified retrospectively using a prospectively collected database. RESULTS Outcomes of patients...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to report the treatment outcomes of patients with advanced oropharyngeal cancer treated with transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) followed by radiation therapy (RT) at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. METHODS A retrospective study of 80 patients treated from January 1, 2000 to November 7, 2011 was performed. All patients had stage III/IV oropharyngeal tumors and ...

System-on-Chip (SoC) designs are increasingly becoming more complex. Efficient on-chip communication architectures are critical for achieving desired performance in these systems. System designers typically use Bus Cycle Accurate (BCA) models written in high level languages such as C/C++ to explore the communication design space. These models capture all of the bus signals and strictly maintain...

We have investigated the site-specific cleavage of DNA by the antitumor antibiotics talisomycin and bleomycin by using 5'or 3'-terminal 32P-labeled restriction fragments of pBR 322 DNA. Both drugs cleaved DNA preferentially at G-C and G-T sequences. However, the relative amounts of cleavage at par ticular cleavage sites differed between talisomysin and bleo mycin at concentrations of the drugs ...

B. Wu, P. Qu, J. Yuan, G. X. Shen MRI Lab, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong INTRODUCTION Minimizing the mutual coupling among array elements is necessary for parallel MRI. Preamplifiers with extremely low input-impedance [1] and capacitive decoupling networks [2, 3] have become the primary techniques for decoupling arbitrarily placed co...

OBJECTIVES Transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) has been increasingly used in lieu of total laryngectomy to treat malignancy after definitive radiation. There are few data in the literature regarding functional outcomes. We retrospectively reviewed voice and swallowing outcomes in patients who underwent TLM for recurrent laryngeal carcinoma. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING...

A supercondensed TLM node for modelling inhomogeneous anisotropic media on an arbitrarily graded mesh without using stubs is developed. It requires less storage, computationally is more efficient and can operate on a higher time step then existing TLM nodes. Complete derivation, implementation and validation of the new node are presented in the paper. Introduction Transmission-Line Modelling (T...

Asteroids are the origin point for most meteorites impacting Earth. Terrestrial meteorite samples provide evidence of what actually occurred in early solar system at formation location meteorite, and when it occurred. The ability to connect a sample an asteroid parent body provides its starting as meteoroid. To date, only handful chondritic types have been credibly connected parent. For past tw...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan Pengunaan metode snowball throwing dalam meningkatkan hasil belajar pada materi Penulisan Teks Eksplanasi siswa kelas XI-TLM SMK Kesehatan Haji Sumatera Utara. adalah Tindakan Kelas (PTK), penelitian dilakukan dua siklus dengan kali pertemuan. Setiap terdiri dari tahap perencanaan, tindakan, pengamatan dan refleksi. Pertemuan. Pertemuan setiap Hasi...