This article explores whether some new acellular dermal matrices (ADMs) can be applied to breast augmentation or reconstruction revision, and particularly whether they can withstand the centripetal pull and prevent recurrent stretch deformities following periareolar mastopexy. Acellular dermis use in breast reconstruction and aesthetic breast revision is a fortuitous development, because their ...

BACKGROUND To compare the biological characteristics of three types of human hepatocellular carcinoma multi-drug resistant cell sub-lines Bel-7402/ADM models established by three methods. METHODS Established human hepatocellular carcinoma adriamycin (ADM) multi-drug resistant cell sub-lines models Bel-7402/ADMV, Bel-7402/ADML and Bel-7402/ADMS by three methods of in vitro concentration gradie...

SONET ADMs are the dominant cost factor in the WDM=SONET rings. Recently several articles (Belvaux et al., European J. Oper. Res. 108 (1) (1998) 26–35; C+ alinescu and Wan, Tra c partition in WDM=SONET rings to minimize SONET ADMs, submitted for publication; Gerstel et al., Proc. IEEE INFOCOM’98, vol. 1, pp. 94–101; Liu et al., Proc. INFOCOM, vol. 2, 2000, pp. 1020–1025; Sutter et al., Oper. Re...

OBJECTIVE To comparatively assess the B-cell composition in blood and CSF of patients with pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (pedMS) and adult-onset multiple sclerosis (adMS). METHODS In this cross-sectional study, we obtained blood and CSF samples from 25 patients with pedMS (8-18 years) and 40 patients with adMS (23-65 years) and blood specimens from 66 controls (1-55 years). By using mult...

Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia Correspondence: Dr Sheina A Macadam, Suite 1000-777 West Broadway, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4J7. Telephone 604-876-1688, fax 604-876-1358, e-mail [email protected] Acellular dermal matrices (ADMs) were initially described for use in the resurfacing of bur...

In this paper we consider traac grooming in WDM/SONET ring networks when the ooered traac is characterized by a set of traac matrices. Our objective is to minimize the cost of electronic Add/Drop Multiplexers (ADMs) in the network, while being able to support any ooered traac matrix in a rearrangeably non-blocking manner. We provide several methods for reducing the required number of ADMs for a...

INTRODUCTION Acellular dermal matrices (ADMs) are now commonly used for breast reconstruction surgery. There are various products available: ADMs derived from human (HADM), porcine (PADM), or bovine (BADM) sources. Detailed long-term follow-up studies are necessary to detect differences in complication rates between these products. MATERIAL AND METHODS From 2010 to 2015, forty-one patients un...

The problem of grooming is central in studies of optical networks. In graph-theoretic terms, this can be viewed as assigning colors to the lightpaths so that at most g of them (g being the grooming factor) can share one edge. The cost of a coloring is the number of optical switches (ADMs); each lightpath uses two ADM’s, one at each endpoint, and in case g lightpaths of the same wavelength enter...

Traffic grooming in a WDM network consists of assigning to each request (lightpath) a wavelength with the constraint that a given wavelength can carry at most C requests or equivalently a request uses at most 1/C of the bandwidth. C is known as the grooming ratio. A request (lightpath) need two SONET add-drop multiplexers (ADMs) at each end node ; using grooming different requests can share the...