The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of abdominal and retroperitoneal masses in children on this study. In 53 cases of childhood abdominal and retroperitoneal masses within a 4 year period (1998- 2001) preoperative fine needle aspiration was done under the guide of CT scan. 2 pathologists reviewed fine needle aspiration smears. I...

Background: Historically open surgical drainage has been the treatment of choice for pyogenic liver abscess. The records of 54 patients with pyogenic liver abscess were reviewed to determine whether earlier diagnosis with current imaging tests and definitive treatment with antibiotics and aspiration drainage was an effective alternative to surgery. Methods: The clinical features, laborator...

mucormycosis is a fatal and life threatening infection particularly in immunocompromised patients, so early diagnosis and rapid treatment is life saving. a 52-year-old female, known case of diabetes mellitus, presented with chills, fever, fatigue and anorexia. a subcutaneous mass was detected around the umbilicus (4x4). fine needle aspiration of the mass showed mucor hyphea with little inflamma...

Penetration-aspiration is the most serious complication in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) after radiotherapy. Radiotherapy has been shown to increase patient's survival rate and life expectancy but it showed side effects such as oropharyngeal dysphagia. It’s related morbidity mortality penetration-aspiration could progress aspiration pneumonia, sepsis, death if not treated properl...

When particles strike a surface they can either rebound or deposit on the surface. If particles rebound on human facial skin they can be re-entrained into the airflow and subsequently inhaled, increasing aspiration efficiency estimates. To accurately model particle bounce on human facial skin and the effects on aspiration efficiency estimates, a realistic estimate of human facial skin coefficie...

PURPOSE To evaluate the impact of high-speed cut rates (up to 7500 cuts per minute [cpm]) on vitreous flow through various gauge probes. METHODS An open-sky vitrectomy technique was performed on porcine eyes using the CONSTELLATION Vision System with three different gauges of dual-pneumatic probes (27+-, 25+-, and 23-gauge UltraVit probes; n = 5 for each gauge). Flow rate was calculated by La...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to devise a strategy to diagnose malign endometrial pathologies (adenocarcinoma or atypical hyperplasia) that minimizes the number of invasive tests done (hysteroscopy, aspiration biopsy or curettage) with no loss of its detection efficiency. MATERIAL AND METHODS We retrospectively studied the clinical histories of 779 postmenopausal women at the Universi...

OBJECTIVE to investigate the association of risk factors with the Risk for aspiration nursing diagnosis and respiratory aspiration. METHOD cross-sectional study assessing 105 patients with stroke. The instrument used to collect data addressing sociodemographic information, clinical variables and risk factors for Risk for aspiration. The clinical judgments of three expert RNs were used to esta...