can supplement this by a short note upon 23 laparotomies for the same condition performed by me in the Rangoon General Hospital when I had charge of Major Barry's wards during his absence on leave. In my series of cases both tubes were removed 19 times?one tube 4 times, Hysterectomy was performed three times, and in one of these latter cises the appendix was removed as it was adherent in the Pe...

OBJECTIVE To explore the anomalies of the temporal bone found on radiologic examination, technical challenges in cochlear implantation, and audiologic benefit derived from cochlear implantation in a series of children with CHARGE association. DESIGN Case series report. SETTING Tertiary referral children's hospital pediatric cochlear implant program. PATIENTS Six children with CHARGE assoc...

Biochemistry Research Division, Department of Cancer Biology, Chief Department of Surgical Oncology (Speciality Clinic) & Director, The Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute, 3 Department of Oral Diagnosis and Dental Radiology, Government Dental College and Hospital Correspondence to: Dr. Prabhudas S. Patel, In-charge, Biochemistry Research Division, The Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute, Asarw...

In 1940 hejoined the Royal Army Medical Corps, served with the 8th Army in the desert and was taken prisoner on the fall of Tobruk; after two years' captivity he was repatriated in 1943 under the Geneva Convention regarding medical personnel. He returned to military service as LieutenantColonel in charge of the medical division of a General Hospital, landed in France in 1944 and took part in th...

Polyvinyl chloride supported silver molybdate composite material is used to develop by solution casting method. This membrane was characterized by various instrumental techniques such as Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analyses. These characterizations are used to understand the functional groups,thermal sta...

OBJECTIVE In the USA, a group of low-risk patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) with a low risk of mortality were identified and it was suggested that they may be treated as outpatients to save costs. We evaluated the outcome of these low-risk CAP patients that were hospitalized in our local setting, and gauged the number of such patients in order to estimate the potential cost-savin...

Objective: To determine the influencing factors for hospital cost of patients with spinal fractures using E-CHAID category tree, we performed this retrospective study. Patients and methods: The data on 2109 patients with spinal fractures in our hospital, including the comorbidity conditions, surgical and other clinical characteristics, were collected. After Pearson correlation test was performe...

Trauma remains a leading cause of death and disability in America, and motor vehicle crashes (MVC) are the most common cause of serious injury in West Virginia. In this study, we examined the role of seat belt use or non-use in the death, disability, and hospital charges of 500 patients admitted after MVC to a rural Level 1 trauma center in 1990. Eighty percent of the patients who required hosp...

BACKGROUND In recent years, artificial neural network is advocated in modeling complex multivariable relationships due to its ability of fault tolerance; while decision tree of data mining technique was recommended because of its richness of classification arithmetic rules and appeal of visibility. The aim of our research was to compare the performance of ANN and decision tree models in predict...