STUDY OBJECTIVE The STONE score is a clinical decision rule that classifies patients with suspected nephrolithiasis into low-, moderate-, and high-score groups, with corresponding probabilities of ureteral stone. We evaluate the STONE score in a multi-institutional cohort compared with physician gestalt and hypothesize that it has a sufficiently high specificity to allow clinicians to defer com...

BACKGROUND Although there is growing evidence of relationship between obesity and some specific stone compositions, results were inconsistent. Due to a greater relationship between metabolic syndrome and some specific stone type, obesity measured by body mass index (BMI) has limitation in determining relationship between obesity and stone compositions. The aim of this study was to determine the...

Introduction Laboratories often modify procedures recommended by the European Urinalysis Guidelines for urine sediment analysis. The aim of this study was to compare the recommended protocol with our routine laboratory procedure and to evaluate the possible impact of modifications in the relative centrifugal force, type of tube, method of supernatant aspiration and urine volume on patient's res...

Microalloyed cast steels are a group of microalloyed steels in which reliable mechanical properties could be achieved by heat treatment. In this work, the heat treatment processes were carried out on the cast specimens as the step samples by different thicknesses and Zr content. The results show that after homogenization, variations in thickness have no effect on the hardness. Also, after hea...

Earth slopes stabilization is one of the main issues focused on by are in geotechnical engineer. Use of stone columns is one of approaches well increasing the safety factor of earth slopes of the soil embankments; furthermore, it is economical besides the simplicity and ease it exhibits in implementation. . The present paper aims at an experimental comparison of the Ordinary Stone Column (OSC) ...

OBJECTIVE To review 17 years experience of the stone clinic with incorporating the changes in practice over the years and to report the benefits of stone clinic in a developing country. METHODS The SIUT Stone clinic was established in 1990 with installation of HM4 Lithotriptor. This clinic is run jointly by a Urologist, Dietitian, Nephrologist, Biochemist and Radiologist. From 1990 - 2007, ab...

Background:
 Dental impressions become contaminated with micro-organism from patient’s saliva and blood which can cross-infect stone cast poured against them. The aim of the present study was to compare efficacy commercially available disinfection products, one containing glutaraldehyde, sodium hypo chloride ethanol for material.
 Methods: For this investigations, dental impression 60...

The objective of the present study was to determine the correlation between the interalar width and the combined mesiodistal width of maxillary six-anterior teeth in Pakistani population. It was a cross sectional study and was carried out from May 2011 to November 2011. A total of 159 dentate subjects fulfilling the inclusion criteria were selected from the department of Prosthodontics, Lahore ...

models were poured by using type 3 dental stone (Giludur, BK Giulini). Thereafter, wax patterns of epitheses (Figure 2) were prepared by using dental wax (Cavex Set Up Wax, Cavex) based on cast models and photographs of healthy ears. After the trial of wax patterns on patients in terms of marginal fit and anatomical localization, cast models were molded (Figure 3). The molds were then placed in...