Gynecomastia correction is the most common breast surgery in males. Surgical reduction is indicated in Grade IIB and Grade III gynecomastia in Simon’s classification. A circumareolar incision may chosen according to skin and areolar excess. Achieving a symmetrical nipple-areola complex is one of the major goals of the reduction surgery. The average areola diameter of males is measured as 2.67– ...

This study aims to compare the differences in sampling satisfaction rates between 5 mL syringe and 22G percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) needles fine-needle aspiration (FNA) provide economical reasonable needle selection. From January 2021 March 2022, 187 patients with thyroid nodules (a total of 200 nodules) who underwent ultrasound-guided FNA were punctured using PTC once for ea...

Aims: In most countries, the spread of HIV and hepatitis C in prisons is clearly driven by injecting drug use with many infected prisoners who are unaware of their infection status. Despite many studies confirming the facts about risk behaviour and the prison setting as a risk environment for maintaining or taking up of risk behaviour, little progress has been made around effective and efficien...

The aim of this study was to compare the amount of irrigant extrusion in simulated immature permanent teeth when the apical diameter and needle insertion depth were varied. Thirty single-rooted maxillary incisors with straight root canals were selected. The root length was standardized to a length of 9 mm. The teeth were divided into two experimental groups according to the degree of apical enl...

BACKGROUND Pain and needle-phobia can be a problem during the application of local anesthesia with syringe and needle. OBJECTIVE To evaluate a jet-injection device (without needle) to deliver local anesthesia. METHODS Two hundred and six minor dermatological procedures using a jet-injection device for administering local anesthesia into skin tissue were performed. We comment on the technica...

The instrument described here consists of a special syringe on which sharp cutting needles of various sizes are mounted. These produce undistorted biopsy specimens. Suction is used only to retain the specimen within the needle, and the cleancut cylinder of tissue is quite unlike that obtained by aspiration. Gillman and Gillman&2 used this principle for their liver biopsy instrument. We have ret...

BACKGROUND Fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology is a well-established diagnostic method based on the microscopic interpretation of often scant cytological material; therefore, experience, good technique and smear quality are equally important in obtaining satisfactory results. AIMS OF STUDY We studied the use of fresh surgical pathology specimens for making so-called mock-FNA smears with the...

The purpose of this study was to compare daily changes in the concentration of atropine or ephedrine sulfate solutions that had been stored up to 4 days in plastic or glass syringes. Sets of three plastic and one glass syringe were used for each drug; the glass syringes acted as controls. Each set of syringes was labeled as day 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4. Syringes with medication were laid horizontally, ...