BACKGROUND This study was designed to compare two methods of surgery, anterior subcutaneous transposition (ASCT) and anterior submuscular transposition (ASMT) of the ulnar nerve in treatment of cubital tunnel syndrome. MATERIALS AND METHODS This randomized trial study was conducted from October 2008 to March 2009 in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at University Hospital. Forty-eight pati...

Thoracic oesophageal perforation, a life-threatening condition, is a therapeutic challenge. A 20 year old male developed a lower oesophageal perforation following an abdominal cardiomyotomy for achalasia of the lower oesophagus. The resulting suppurative mediastinitis and left empyema thoracis were treated by decortication. The oesophageal perforation was closed using a transposition pedicle le...

289 Soltan Sanjari et al[1] are to be commended on their paper “Surgical treatments in inferior oblique muscle overaction”. They report on a retrospective study of the treatment for inferior oblique overaction (IOOA) performed over a 10‐year period on 122 eyes utilizing three different surgical techniques to weaken the inferior oblique muscle. Disinsertion on 12 eyes, myectomy on 91 eyes, and a...

in this paper we introduce the notions of fuzzy transposition hypergroupsand fuzzy regular relations and investigate their basic properties.we also study fuzzy quotient hypergroups of a fuzzy transposition hypergroup.