BACKGROUND Intracranial hypertension (IH) is a neurological disorder characterized by increased intracranial pressure. It is a poorly understood syndrome that most commonly manifests nonspecific symptoms such as stroke-like headache, vision changes, nausea, vomiting, and papilledema. IH has been reported in young cancer patients but never in association with gastric signet-ring cell carcinoma. ...

UNLABELLED Background. A study was designed to compare the efficacy of anesthesia between transthecal digit block (TDB) and single injection volar subcutaneous block. METHODS A 36-patient, randomized, controlled, prospective investigation was undertaken. The parameters included the onset of time to achieve anesthesia, visual analog scale pain score during the infiltration, and anesthesia ...

Biodegradable poly(ethyleneglycol)-poly(valerolactone)-poly(ethyleneglycol) [PEG-PVL-PEG] copolymers were synthesized through ring opening polymerization of δ-valerolactone (VL) followed by the coupling of monomethoxy poly(ethyleneglycol-poly(valerolactone) (mPEG-PVL) with hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI). The copolymers were characterized by (1)H NMR, FT-IR, and GPC. Block copolymers of PEG an...

Objective: To investigate the clinical effectiveness of minimally invasive subcutaneous pedicle screw and rod system in treatment of anterior pelvic ring injury. Methods: Altogether, 28 patients (17 men, 11 women; average age 39.8 years, range 19-68 years) with pelvic ring fractures were treated using a subcutaneous internal anterior fixation device composed of supra-acetabular spinal pedicle s...

The Silicon Physical Unclonable Function (SPUF) was first introduced by Devadas. The silicon PUF works on the basis of the variations in delays present in the gates as well as wires. The ring oscillator PUF is one of the implementation of SPUF. The ring oscillator requires one pair of ring oscillators for each output bit. So for collecting more number of output bits to acquire safe security lev...