BACKGROUND To evaluate the early outcome of Lichtenstein's technique for repair of inguinal hernia using polypropylene mesh. METHODS This was a descriptive study conducted over a period of twelve months from 1st July 2007 to 30th June 2008 in Surgical 'B' unit, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar. One hundred and twelve patients were received through the out patient department with diagnosis of i...

Incisional hernia results from inadequate healing in the area of an operative incision and its diagnosis is clinical or imaging. Complex incisional hernias are difficult to treat have complications, especially compartment syndrome. Thus, technical care closing incisions primary surgeries reduces risk developing hernia. Therefore, study aimed present a case report patient who performed correctio...

This work builds upon an adaptive simulation framework to allow for mixed-element meshes in two dimensions. Contributions are focused in the area of mesh generation which employs the L' norm to produce various mesh types. Mixed-element meshes are obtained by first using the L' norm to create a right-triangulation which is then combined to form quadrilaterals through a graph-matching approach. T...

We address two challenges related to Extreme-scale Mesh Generation Environments: (1) Design a multilayered algorithmic and software framework for 3D tetrahedral parallel mesh generation using state-of-theart functionality supported by our telescopic approach for parallel mesh generation. Our approach explores concurrency at all hardware layers using abstractions at (a) medium-grain level for ma...

A full-thickness chest wall resection requires subsequent chest wall reconstruction. A chest wall resection and reconstruction was performed using a transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) flap, together with polypropylene mesh (Marlex mesh) and stainless steel mesh (SSM). A 71-year-old man was diagnosed as having recurrent lung cancer in the chest wall, and underwent surgical resection...

This work introduces “generalized meshes”, a type of meshes suited for the discretization partial differential equations in non-regular geometries. Generalized extend regular simplicial by allowing overlapping elements and more flexible adjacency relations. They can have several distinct “generalized” vertices (or edges, faces) that occupy same geometric position. These generalized facets are n...

Amyand's hernia (AH) is characterized by the presence of the vermiform appendix in an inguinal hernia sac. Typically presenting on the right side and with manifestations similar to those seen in complicated hernias, it presents a diagnostic challenge and is frequently only diagnosed intraoperatively. We present the case of a left-sided AH on a 75-year-old man treated with appendicectomy, orchid...

In a previous paper by Ryan and Shu [Ryan, J. K., and Shu, C.-W. (2003). Methods Appl. Anal. 10(2), 295–307], a one-sided post-processing technique for the discontinuous Galerkin method was introduced for reconstructing solutions near computational boundaries and discontinuities in the boundaries, as well as for changes in mesh size. This technique requires prior knowledge of the discontinuity ...

Several efficient constructions of smooth surfaces following the outlines of a polyhedral mesh are based on three-sided patches. To demonstrate that these constructions arc compatible with existing software based on tensor-product patches, the particular scheme in [3] is expressed in terms of linearly-trimmed bicubic patches. Explicit formulas relating the coefficients of the patches to the ver...

Several efficient constructions of smooth surfaces following the outlines of a polyhedral mesh are based on three-sided patches. To demonstrate that these constructions arc compatible with existing software based on tensor-product patches, the particular scheme in [3] is expressed in terms of linearly-trimmed bicubic patches. Explicit formulas relating the coefficients of the patches to the ver...