This article is a Directed Reading. Your access to Directed Reading quizzes for continuing education credit is determined by your membership status and CE preference. The aorta is the largest artery in the human body. Originating from the left ventricle, it extends into the chest and down into the abdomen. The vessel is the main conduit for distributing oxygenated blood from the heart to the bo...

PURPOSE To determine the anatomical landmark within the internal oblique muscle. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a prospective study, the abdominal wall was examined for internal oblique muscle land marks in 900 patients undergoing laparatomy. RESULTS There was a fat line at anterior superior iliac spine level to access the underlying layers and then to the abdominal cavity. CONCLUSION A fat tri...

Aim. To report on the endodontic and periodontal management of a root and alveolar process perforation in a maxillary front tooth. Summary. Perforation during access cavity preparation is an infrequent complication during endodontic therapy, leading to potential periodontal tissue breakdown. The case described the two-stage management of a massive facial root perforation requiring a connective ...

Management of Airway in patients with complex maxillofacial trauma is challenging due to disruption of components of upper airway. Submental intubation is a simple, quick and effective alternative to oral and nasal intubation or tracheostomy.This provides a secure airway and allows unimpeded surgical access to the oral cavity and midface, whilst avoiding the potential complications associated w...

The design and implementation of a wideband single-mode dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) with substrate integrated cavity-backed structure is presented in this paper. Two short-circuited striplines differential feeding are placed inside the cavity (SIC) for pure mode excitation DRA, providing stable radiation characteristics, low cross polarization levels. coupled to cylindrical DRA through a...

Minimally access laparoscopic surgery has undergone rapid development in last decade. It has many advantages but one of the challenges is the tissue retrieval from the surgical site. Large specimen can be retrieved after enlarging the port site but this is against the concept of minimal access surgery (MAS). In this article, we reviewed the literature to analyze the different methods of tissue ...

Designed as a true myocutaneous flap pedicled on the facial artery, the nasolabial flap is a robust and versatile flap that is well suited to single-stage reconstruction of oral cavity defects or to staged reconstructions of facial defects (Figure 1). This chapter will focus on oral cavity reconstruction. The redundant skin extending from the medial canthus of the eye to the inferior margin of ...

Initiating events leading to the accumulation of malignant ascites in the peritoneal cavity were investigated in two syngeneic transplantable murine ascites-producing tumors, MOT mouse ovarian tumor and the TA3/St mammary carcinoma. The transport of two tracers, 125I-labeled human serum albumin (125I-HSA) and 51Cr-labeled red blood cells (51Cr-RBC), into and out of the peritoneal cavity was stu...

For more than ten years, the access network market is attracted by the Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers well known as the acronym VCSEL. Indeed, the numerous advantages of this component make the VCSEL technology suitable for access networks and today several studies have demonstrated the feasibility of various configurations of Optical Access Network (OAN) using the VCSEL Technology. Ab...