surgical glues have been used in pediatric surgery because of the fragility of tissue, and to prevent major surgeries. the present report describes our experience with using a new cya-noacrylate glubran 2 (viareggio, italy) in the treatment of five cases of tracheoesophageal atresia with fistula (one fistula protection, three recurrent fistula, and one unstable patients), two cases of hypospadi...

BACKGROUND An artificial dermal matrix such as Integra (Integra Life Sciences Corporation, USA) provides a wound bed template for vascular and fibrocyte ingrowth as well as collagen remodelling. Dermal repair leads to epidermal and basement membrane regeneration. Burn wounds in particular have been shown to benefit from Integra by enhanced wound healing. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of fi...

PURPOSE Long-term closure rates of anorectal fistulas using fibrin glue have been disappointing, possibly because of the liquid consistency of the glue. A suturable bioprosthetic plug (Surgisis, Cook Surgical, Inc.) was fashioned to close the primary opening of fistula tracts. A prospective cohort study was performed to compare fibrin glue vs. the anal fistula plug. METHODS Patients with high...

BACKGROUND Seroma and hematoma formations are the most common complications after plastic surgery. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of autologous platelet-rich plasma (A-PRP) glue to reduce postoperative wound complications and improve surgical outcomes. METHODS Fifty-four patients were included in this study. They underwent breast reduction surgery, abdominoplasty, or limb li...

This project is part of a larger project whose goal is to decompose the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel is a sharedmemory environment, and decomposing the Linux kernel provides security by confining the effects of attacks. The Lightweight Capability Domains project [6] is decomposing the Linux kernel into a share-nothing environment. In this environment, subsystems which previously existed in a ...

This paper shows how glue rules can be used to increase the robustness of statistical chart realization in a manner inspired by dependency realization. Unlike the use of glue rules in MT—but like previous work with XLE on improving robustness with hand-crafted grammars—they are invoked here as a fallback option when no grammatically complete realization can be found. The method works with Combi...

Spiders in the superfamily Araneoidea produce viscous glue from aggregate silk glands. Aggregate glue coats prey-capture threads and hampers the escape of prey from webs, thereby increasing the foraging success of spiders. cDNAs for Aggregate Spider Glue 1 (ASG1) and 2 (ASG2) have been previously described from the golden orb-weaver, Nephila clavipes, and Western black widow, Latrodectus hesper...

BACKGROUND Axillary lymphadenectomy remains an integral part of breast cancer treatment, yet seroma formation occurs in 15-85% of cases. Among methods to reduce seroma magnitude and duration, fibrin glue has been proposed in several studies with controversial results. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ninety patients underwent quadrantectomy or mastectomy with level I/II axillary lymphadenectomy; a suctio...

BACKGROUND Axillary lymphadenectomy or sentinel biopsy is integral part of breast cancer treatment, yet seroma formation occurs in 15-85% of cases. Among methods employed to reduce seroma magnitude and duration, fibrin glue has been proposed in numerous studies with controversial results. METHODS Eighty patients underwent quadrantectomy or mastectomy with level I/II axillary lymphadenectomy; ...

Anaphora and resumption, phenomena which intuitively seem to challenge resource sensitivity, have been argued to support its role in Glue. The resource deletion treatment of resumption in LFG Glue presented by Asudeh (2004) was designed to work together with the Glue resource duplication treatment of anaphora (Dalrymple et al., 1999). However, as ‘resumptive pronouns’ are mere pronouns, the cho...