doppler ultrasound of the upper extremity vessels

... trial no consensus of the appropriate treatment protocol for MCC is made so far [6-8] Therapeutic options depend on the stage of the disease at the time of presentation whereas the most important ... rates of locoregional control [8,10,35,36] A benefit of this method is the better inspection of all major borders of the lesion [7,36] Postoperative radiotherapy in node free patients either discovered ... MP: drafted the article; LN: helped in drafting the article; NN helped in drafting the draft CG carried out the immunoassays; LL: participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... the acoustic window of the spleen The number of peristaltic contractions was recorded three times over a one-minute time period and the average number of contraction was then calculated The ultrasound ... hampered by the pressure of the transducer applied to the skin during ultrasound scanning In the present study, all of the animals were scanned in the right recumbent position using the spleen ... frequency of 4.5 kHz and a Doppler gate width of mm were selected The gain setting was grade 78(62~100) and the depth was fixed at level 4, and the other variables were not changed during the scan The...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:23

... 68 to 100 patients with RSD, 33 in the upper and 21 in the lower extremity. [41] Regardless of whether the patient had CRPS in the upper or the lower extremity, the two groups were significantly ... If these nerves can be demonstrated to be the source of the pain by nerve blocks and post-block increase knee function, then "RSD of the Knee", then "CRPS I" of the knee is really a "CRPS II" of ... series In the upper extremity the results were excellent in 40% (16 of 40 patients), good in 40% (16 of 40 patients) and failure 20% (8 of 40 patients) Follow-up > and < 24 months In the upper extremity...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... District of Niagara for the space of eighteen calendar months, to be computed from the eighth day of November, in the sixtieth year of the reign of our said lord the King: that in the course of the ... lower level All these arrangements occupied perhaps one-third of the entire court-room The rest of the space, extending from the rear of the prisoners' dock to the lower end of the chamber, was ... was the plan of the conventional Upper Canadian courtroom in the olden time; and such, with a few inconsiderable modifications, many of them remain down to the present day The sole occupant of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... densities occupying the apical and subapical region of the upper lobes (30 patients); ( ) opacification with shrinkage of the upper lobes, often with considerable upward retraction of the lung FIGURElb ... 01/07/2013 307 persist In other instances, upward retraction of the lung roots may result in a migration of densities from below toward the upper zones Both modes of evolution of upper zonal densities ... with Shrinkage of the Upper Zones (Fiue Patients) In the second pattern of upper zonal sarcoidosis, the chest radiograph may assume, after several years' duration, an appearance of densely fibrotic...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... development of pottery, the introduction of the bow and arrow, and the adaptation of corn agriculture This book presents the story of past peoples of the Upper Mississippi River Valley from the first ... through the presence of artifacts Even disturbances to the record of the past by natural or cultural means are structured and therefore knowable Burial of the Dead Throughout the world, there is ... served to bind the macroband together could be held The most important of these would have been burial of the dead In some periods, the bodies or bones of persons who died during the winter were...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:35

... where Ah is the amplitude of the h-th harmonic and N is the total number of the analyzed harmonics (N = 10 in this study) The denominator of the equation represents the total power of the N harmonics ... between the pattern of the upper body movements occurring during right and left steps To quantify the effects of walking speed on acceleration, the magnitude of the correlation between the RMSH, ... analysis The average values of the above parameters were computed for each subject over the different trials From these values, the sample mean and the standard error of the mean (s.e.m.) were then...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... 1.25 shows the contributions of dots in the K-space in the final image The distance of the dots from the center of the K-space determines the frequency of the repeated lines: the greater the distance ... perpendicular to the floor (force of gravity) The precession rate (the number of rotations around the direction of B0 over the unit of time) depends on the type of nucleus and the intensity of B0 The precession ... Addition of a variable magnetic field along the x axis 18 MRI of the Heart and Vessels According to the formula w = gB also the precession frequency of the protons, w, changes with the variation of the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 20:20

... Role of the upper- level jet In the Mei-yu studies, the upper- level jet appears as a key factor for the development of the Mei-yu front system In order to clarify, an experiment is set up where the ... interesting that the weakening of the upper- level jet leads to an increase of rainfall in the central Indochina peninsular where the lower-level jet crosses over The reason may be the increase of moisture ... intensification of the upper- level jet that blows along the northern flank of the Tibetan Plateau toward Japan The simulated precipitation shows that the Mei-yu rainfall is well organized in form of a band...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:20

... value and only mask the severity of the symptoms [22] Risk factors The commonest predisposing factor for NF of extremity is a history of drug abuse and multiple needle punctures in the affected site, ... PPV of 92% and a NPV of 96% [31] Other diagnostic adjuncts like ultrasound, CT scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are helpful in suspicious cases The usefulness of MRI in the diagnosis of ... debridement of tissue is the cornerstone of successful management [37] Surgical exploration also aid in the diagnosis of NF The operative findings of grayish necrotic deep fascia, a lack of resistance...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... references the work of the many other scholars whose contributions permeate this thesis 2b Languages and Toponymic patterns Much of the analysis of the names in the parish surveys forming the central ... that the map of Pit-names depicts not the settlement area of the Pictish people, i.e of speakers of Celtic Pictish” (Nicolaisen 1976, 151), but rather the extent of Gaelic-speakers in the tenth ... with the period of an element’s productivity, or its being ‘in fashion’, or the quality of the land and hence the farm’s status, or the influence of power structures within the parish, such as the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 20:41

... priority;  the assessment of the task is in terms of outcome 8 This definition addresses five characteristics of a task That is, the cope of a task, the authenticity of a task, the linguistic ... lot of questions, they answered all of them themselves, while the students hardly involved in the classroom discourse When the teachers gave the students a chance to speak, they kept silent These ... methodology, the research questions, the significance of the study as well as the organization of the study Part B Part B, the Development, consists of four chapters Chapter reviews the literature...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 14:34

... between the current tool and the next tool in the rack The functional task model generates a desired trajectory to simulate the dynamics of the selected task with the difficulty specified by the ... behavior of the simulated system We tested the two components of fidelity: engineering fidelity, which is the degree to which the simulator replicates the physical characteristics of the real ... reached the challenging point before the end of training in most cases We recorded the number of trials need for the difficulty level to stop increasing and then, for the remaining trials, the deviation...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... investigate the effect of the contrast infusion on the sensitivity and specificity of the different Doppler criterion mentioned above The purpose of our study was to evaluate the accuracy of the main ... based on one Doppler criterion Also, the feasibility of US is dependent of the quality of the machine, and the infusion of contrast does not add advantages if the performance of the US machine ... portion of the arteries, we considered for diagnosis of renal artery stenosis the indexes obtained by echo -Doppler in these arterial segments The mean values of PSV, PDV, RAR, RI and PI in these...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:20

... flow in the forearm (Fig 5, arrow) The patient was taken emergently to the OR for exploration of the antecubital fossa, revealing a traction-avulsion injury of cm length at the level of the brachial ... representing 15–20% of arterial injuries to the upper limb [4] Approximately 6% of these injuries are attributable to blunt trauma, with the majority occurring in the setting of fracture-dislocations ... recurrent and interosseus vessels, even in the absence of brachial artery flow This circumstance explains the relative success of the historical practice of ligation of brachial and/or radial...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... monitoring the energy deposition and the therapeutic effect, and also controlling the US exposure based on the feedback digital data from the ultrasonograms in the process of HIFU treatment The therapeutic ... leading the coagulation necrosis of the whole target regions During the therapeutic process, real-time estimation of the therapeutic effect was carried out by the computer system through the graphic ... with the guide for the care and use of laboratory animals from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China Instruments HIFU ablation was performed with a HIFU tumor therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... Jiirvinen concern the (i) typology of the differences and (ii) the reliability of their experiment Concerning the typology of the differences: in Voutilainen and J~irvinen's experiment the linguists ... subconsciously, much about the behaviour, desired or otherwise, of the tagger, it may well be that if the developers also annotate the benchmark corpus used for evaluating the tagger, some of the tagger's ... general indication of the nature of the analysis task with the ENGCG tag set, but a larger data would increase the reliability of the experiment In this paper, we address all these three clues-'...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20

... concentrations of nominated chemicals affects the CTMaximum values of the four species of fish MATERIALS AND METHODS Three of the test fish species are native to Australia, these being the silver perch ... rates of test chemicals can be estimated on the basis of the results obtained from acute tests, conducted simultaneously in glass vessels using the same stock solutions of these chemicals, with the ... 1944 Preliminary study of the thermal requirements of desert reptiles Bull Am Mus Nat Hist 83:261– 296 Lowe Jr CH, Vance VJ 1955 Acclimation of the critical thermal maximum of the reptile Urosaurus...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... information about the direction of the intended movement These forces were assessed from the time the ball reached the center of the table to the time the ball was caught The sign of the force is ... respect to the position of the ball The positive sign represents the force toward the ball, while the negative sign represents the force away from the ball Only the horizontal component of the force ... both from the National Medical Ethics Committee of the Republic of Slovenia and from the Medical Ethics Committee of the University Rehabilitation Institute of the Republic of Slovenia The rehabilitation...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... from the end of the reaction time to the time after which the user has stably reached the target Movement Quickness Deviation The mean of the perpendicular distance from the subject position to the ... abilities of the user Here the focus is on a detailed analysis of selected data for the conventional joystick, related to the aim of identifying sensitive assessment metrics; most of the other data ... (RMSE) The squared root of the mean-squared distance from the subject position to the target position Accuracy Deviation The mean of the perpendicular distance from the subject position to the target...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20