BACKGROUND Cervical necrotizing fasciitis is an aggressive infection that can be rapidly fatal if aggressive therapies are not initiated early. Negative pressure wound therapy has been established as an effective tool in promoting wound healing, but its use in the acutely infected wound has been avoided because it limits frequent irrigations and standard dressing changes. METHODS We discuss a...

Primary non-gonococcal urethritis of venereal origin is usually abacterial. This is also the case when the disease follows rectal coitus (Harkness, 1950). When organisms are present in the secretions in untreated cases the disease is more likely to have been caused by infections descending from a urethral stricture, the prostate, or lesions of the upper urinary tract. It can also be caused mech...

Children with cystic fibrosis frequently have nasal polyps and sinusitis. This study addresses (para-) nasal disease in 39 adult cystic fibrosis patients. Fifteen patients (39%) had recently had serious nasal symptoms and 26% sinusitis. Seventeen (44%) had nasal polyposis. Almost all sinus radiographs taken showed opacification, which was unrelated to symptoms. Polypectomies and antral irrigati...

was a copious discharge from the anterior nares. The patient was very weak, her pulse feeble and the temperature sub-normal. She was admitted into hospital and the foul smelling cavity cleaned up by irrigation with permanganate solution, turpentine applications, cutting away of sloughs, and removal of the maggots with forceps, about 50 of which were extracted in this way. She was put to bed and...

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Die Lehrveranstaltung bereitet die Studierenden auf das Agrarwissenschaftliche Praktikum, die Lehrveranstaltung WissenschaftlichesSchreiben im 5. Semester sowie auf die Bachelorund Master-Arbeit vor.ObjectiveDie Studierendensind sich der Aufgaben im Zusammenhang mit dem Agrarwissenschaftlichen Praktikum bewusstkennen die Grundlagen des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens und kö...

in the water-limited areas, the great challenge of the agricultural sector is more production from less water that it can be achieved by increasing water productivity. a field study was conducted to compare various cultivars of wheat to water using line source sprinkler irrigation at gorgan research station in 2005-2006. the effect of variable water supply on yield and wue of six wheat cultivar...

water is the most important factor for agriculture development in iran. accordingly the optimal consumptione of water is very important. using pressurized irrigation system is one of the methods to improve agricultural water management. the objecttives of this research were to compare two irrigation methods of furrow and trickle irrigation systems impacts on quantity and quality characters of s...

to investigate the effect of plant density and supplemental irrigation on agronomic characteristics, chlorophyll content and light interception beneath the canopy of three chickpea genotypes under dryland conditions, an experiment was conducted at research station of lorestan agricultural research center located at chegini, khoramabad, during 2004-2005. the study was conducted using a split-spl...