The paper presents a modified operative technique for involutional lower lid entropion. The prospective noncomparative study of 101 lower eyelids of 88 patients undergoing surgery for involutional lower lid entropion was conducted in period from September 2005 until March 2012. Indication for the surgery was entropion, previously untreated, with moderate to severe horizontal lid laxity and no c...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of clinical gait analysis (GA) on the costs of care in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy (CP) and the amount of surgery these children undergo. METHODS A retrospective review identified all ambulatory patients with CP who had undergone lower extremity orthopaedic surgery at our hospital from 1991 to 2005 with at least a 6...

We report the outcome at ten to 15 years of two-stage revision for hip infection in 99 patients using the Prostalac articulated hip spacer system. All the patients were contacted to determine their current functional and infection status using the Oxford-12, Short form-12, and Western Ontario and McMaster University Osteoarthritis Index questionnaires. A total of 11 of the 99 patients had a fur...

Consider a complete directed graph in which each arc has a given length. There is a set ofjobs, each job i located at some node of the graph, with an associated processing time h i , and whose execution has to start within a prespecified time window [ r ; , d i ] . We have a single server that can move on the arcs of the graph, a t unit speed, and that has to execute all of the jobs within thei...

BACKGROUND The overall prognosis for patients with metastatic malignant melanoma remains poor. However, careful staging and identification of patients with limited metastatic disease offers the opportunity for surgical salvage and improved survival for selected patients. METHODS We reviewed the experience over the last 17 years at our institute with isolated pulmonary metastasectomy in 86 pat...

At ASDEX Upgrade (AUG), a new compact solid-state detector has been installed to measure the energy spectrum of fast neutrals based on the principle described by Shinohara et al. [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75, 3640 (2004)]. The diagnostic relies on the usual charge exchange of supra-thermal fast-ions with neutrals in the plasma. Therefore, the measured energy spectra directly correspond to those of co...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND In late 2001 at our institution, we started offering induction radiochemotherapy as a treatment option for superior sulcus tumors. Our aim was to evaluate treatment choices and outcome in this patient group treated over the past 7 years at our institution. METHODS The records of 34 patients were retrospectively reviewed and 33 were assessable for the analysis. RESULTS Tw...

STUDY DESIGN Systematic review. OBJECTIVE This systematic review examines validity and responsiveness of three generic preference-based measures in patients with low back pain (LBP). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA LBP is a very common incapacitating disease with a significant impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Health state utility values can be derived from various preference-bas...