a b s t r a c t mortality and morbidity from trauma continues to be a serious, ubiquitous public health problem. our short communication reports on the benefits of a dedicated lower limb trauma coordinator (lltc) to the trauma service of a busy inner-london plastics unit. this is based on a retrospective case-note based audit; performed 19 months prior to the introduction of the lltc and for 16...

with an occurrence of 7%, appendicitis is one of the most common abdominal emergencies requiring surgery. since the variation in positions and length of the appendix may produce varying symptoms and signs which mimic other diseases, having knowledge of the variations in the position of the appendix is of significant importance. here, we present a 77-year-old man with acute appendicitis presenti...

we shall give a lower estimate of harmonic‎ ‎functions of order greater than one in a half space‎, ‎which‎ ‎generalize the result obtained by b‎. ‎ya‎. ‎levin in a half plane‎.

in this prospective descriptive study, all patients with acute lower limb ischemia who presented to shohada tajrish hospital (sth) between july 200 1 and july 2003 were analyzed and followed for 6 months. the total population of 109 patients, with no significant difference in sexual distribution had a mean age of 64± 16 years. 23% had af and 31 % had a history of mi, 'but in the ecg of 30%...

We shall give a lower estimate of harmonic‎ ‎functions of order greater than one in a half space‎, ‎which‎ ‎generalize the result obtained by B‎. ‎Ya‎. ‎Levin in a half plane‎.

In 2005, nearly 21% of American adults smoked cigarettes, and 81% of them smoked every day. For smokers unable or unwilling to quit, tobacco products that reduce the adverse health effects of smoking may be an attractive option. Potentially reduced exposure products (PREPs) were developed by the tobacco industry in response to smokers' health concerns. PREPs purportedly lower the tar and/or nic...

We study n-monotone lower previsions, which constitute a generalisation of n-monotone lower probabilities. We investigate their relation with the concepts of coherence and natural extension in the behavioural theory of imprecise probabilities, and improve along the way upon a number of results from the literature. Finally, we indicate how many approaches to integration in the literature fall sq...

background this study aimed to determine the common etiologies and character­istics of lower gastrointestinal (gi) bleeding in children from southern iran. methods this five-year prospective cross-sectional study was performed from march 2006 to march 2011 in nemazee hospital. all pediatric patients (<18 years of age) who referred to our center with visible lower gi bleed­ing or two consecutive...