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... system, an abnormal vein location, partial or complete lack of valves, and/or venous hypoplasia or aplasia has been observed Intra-osseous vascular malformations may lead to hypoplasia of the bone with ... system appeared normal but the distal part was not visualized The arterial system appeared normal The palm had a bluish discoloration Other parts of the body showed no abnormalities The peripheral ... majority of cases, diagnosis is made from the clinical features A simple radiograph may reveal phleboliths and bone hypoplasia at the age of or years Magnetic resonance is the best examination to...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... chair and table, woodblocks, a cricket ball, a sharpening stone, two different sizes of alloy tubes, a washer and bolt, two glasses, a marble and a mm ball-bearing The ARAT uses an ordinal scale ... feedback may frustrate the subject and thus cause more of a distraction rather than assistance in performing MI of rehabilitative tasks There is also a concern that with an inaccurate feedback ... there was clear ERD within the μ band on both contralateral and ipsilateral channels during left and right MI trials Rather unusually, desynchronization was also prevalent within the b band For all...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... details Medicine Rehabilitation NOCSAE Hospital AUSL of Modena, Modena, Italy IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy 3Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy ... for evaluation of physical performance Scand J Rehabil Med 1975, 7:13-31 Lindmark B, Hamrin E: Evaluation of functional capacity after stroke as a basis for active intervention Validation of a modified ... (68.42%) were males and (31.58%) females; individuals (36.84%) presented with left hemiparesis and 12 (63.16%) with right hemiparesis The sample average age was 55.74 ± 12.60 years, with a range of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... physical examination was normal Radiographs revealed a diaphyseal pathologic fracture involving the right humerus with a periosteal reaction Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the right arm (Figure ... neutropenia (grade III and I) and episode of inter-costal Zona after the second course of chemotherapy, successfully managed with Valaciclovir Our case showed excellent clinical and radiological partial ... disease control and survival with amputation and Limb- salvage procedures, as long as wide resection margins are achieved, in the treatment of sarcoma of the extremities [6,7] Furthermore conservative...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:22

... use a continuous measure with absolute values to measure disease activity in daily clinical practice and clinical trials Conclusion 190 The study of Vander Cruyssen and colleagues confirms that ... these patients, as the aim is to reach low disease activity or even remission This illustrates that the target of anti-rheumatic treatment is moving in time It is therefore an extra advantage to ... the patients in which the infliximab dose was not increased had DAS28 > 3.2, which means ‘moderate’ or ‘high’ disease activity One may ask whether a dose increase would also have been indicated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... range of motion; Ankle angle at HS, ankle sagittal plane angle at heel strike; ADF at HS, ankle joint dorsiflexion at heel strike; Ankle angle at MS, ankle sagittal plane angle at midstance; ADF ... vertical touch down angle; Calcaneus-tibia TDA, calcaneus to tibia touch down angle; Calcaneal at HS, calcaneal angle (relative to ground) at heel strike; Eversion at HS, angle between rearfoot and ... lower leg at heel strike; Max pronation, maximum pronation; Calcaneal max, maximum calcaneal angle; Eversion max, maximum eversion; Max eversion, maximum eversion; AEV max, maximum ankle eversion;...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... non-consanguineous Caucasians At birth her mother was 34 years of age, a non-smoker and a non-alcoholic; and she was on prophylthyouracil for a hyperactive thyroid Antenatal history revealed that ... ovale and vertebral anomalies; features associated with a VACTERL spectrum She also had splenomegaly, gastric, retroperitoneal and splenic varices, along with dilated Page of Figure Coronal section ... atresia/tracheo-esophageal fistula and full or partial VACTERL association Birth Defects Res Part A Clin Mol Teratol 2008, 82(2):92-97 Ando H, Kaneko K, Ito F, Seo T, Watanabe Y, Ito T: Anatomy and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... undifferentiated large cell lung carcinoma was diagnosed in a 64-year-old Greek man He was a smoker with a smoking history of 60 pack-years Twenty-two years earlier, he had been diagnosed with a seminoma ... PEM Patients with testicular cancer often have anti-Ma2 antibodies (antibodies against Ma2, a protein expressed both in the brain and in testicular tumor tissue) Anti-Ma2 antibodies are also called ... called anti-Ta antibodies Other autoantibodies occasionally observed in SCLC patients are anti-amphiphysin and anti-CV2 antibodies All of the aforementioned antibodies are 'well characterized' paraneoplastic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... intensive care unit: Clinical review Crit Care 2002, 6:52-59 Sakka SG, Ruhl CC, Pfeiffer UJ, Beale R, MvLuckie A, Reinhart K, Meier-hellmann A: Assessment of cardiac preload and extravascular lung water ... there was an alteration of the area under the curve obtained by the injection of cool saline We think the same alteration would be produced by any catheter, if calibration is done during haemodialysis, ... patient was admitted They discovered the erroneous measurement with the help of EC -A, who was in charge of the patient the following day All authors participated in the draft of the manuscript, and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... can trace a photo, and draw from the tracing, or take any of your own drawings and distort them Here again is a chance for your own invention Draw a square around your subject Divide each way ... Nevertheless, we can take as a basic form a ball sliced off at the sides, leaving it a little wider one way than the other, and adding to it or taking some away The forehead may be flattened, cut ... make any allowance for the variety of shapes 36 After this book was published, I learned with interest that a similar basic head form has been used for years by Miss E Grace Hanks of the Pratt...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 14:19

... hda1, hda2, and hda3 are all physical volumes We'll initialize hda3 as a physical volume: root@lappy:~# pvcreate /dev/hda3 If you wanted to combine several disks, or partitions you could the same ... that we have a volume group (called skx-vol) we can actually start using it Working with logical volumes What we really want to is create logical volumes which we can mount and actually use In ... that the test partition is full and we want to make it bigger First of all we can look at how big it is at the moment with lvdisplay: root@lappy:~# lvdisplay - Logical volume LV Name VG Name...

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Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:25

... Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation Author details Department of Research and Development, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Drøbak, Norway 2Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger ... by anaesthesiologists in patients with severe trauma revealed that, despite a high success rate and few recorded airway management-related complications, a substantial number of patients with a ... Science Data Service approved the collection and recording of the study data Statistics Data were recorded into a database designed with File Maker (FileMaker Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA) We used Table...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56

... pre-hospital deaths and priority A assignments was quite small, and was spread over several years Another bias in our result could have been caused by the impact of external factors such as ambulance ... on performance Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2010, 54(6):689-695 Handbooks of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Ambulance and emergency care services: A handbook for drawing up an alarm procedure ... in East and Central Uusimaa, an area of southern Finland where the EMCC covers about 300 000 inhabitants We identified performance indicators and compared them with data collected before and after...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... Ltd Tokyo, Japan) Statistical analysis Data were expressed as means ± standard deviation (SD), and comparisons were performed with Wilcoxon rank sum test All statistical analyses were carried out ... vacuolated, and mitochondria swelled to a circular shape with a clear matrix and short or disappeared cristae, which were vacuolar appearances Smooth and rough endoplasmic reticulum expanded and became ... The minimal invasiveness and accurate targeting with a real-time US guide allow HIFU to precisely ablate lesions of large size, irregular shape, and even multi-modularity A major advantage of HIFU...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... Turkish patients Abbreviations ACC: American College of Cardiology; AHA: American Heart Association; CABG: coronary artery binding graft; CK: creatine kinase; MACE: major adverse cardiac events; ... 30 days; late, >30 days and very late, >1 year) Myocardial infarction was defined as a creatine kinase (CK) elevation >2 times above the upper limit of normal levels with any associated elevation ... primary clinical efficacy end points included major adverse cardiac events (MACE) at two year (MACE: Death, myocardial infarction, target vessel revascularization (TVR) Target vessel revascularization...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... chloroform and ml TEA at 0-5 °C After h at room temperature, the solution was washed with water, N HCl and again with water The organic layer was dried over Na2SO4 and evaporated The residue was purified ... coloured and maintained for h at room temperature Then the organic phase was washed with water, followed by 1N HCl and again water The organic layer was dried over Na2SO4 and evaporated The resulting ... Integrins alpha v beta and alpha v beta promote adenovirus internalization but not virus attachment Cell 1993; 73: 309-19 339 21 Gasparini G, Brooks PC, Biganzoli E, et al Vascular integrin alpha(v)beta3:...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... treated for breast carcinoma Cancer 1998; 83:2817-20 11 Logan V, Barclay S, Caan W, McCabe J, Reid M Knowledge of lymphoedema among primary health care teams: a questionnaire survey Br J Gen Pract ... surgeons are more familiar with the management of the disorder in the acute phase Although the disease is rare, primary care physicians as first contact care givers and through the continuity of care ... that a close collaboration among health professionals, with a high level of awareness, from geneticists, neonatologists, pediatricians to dermatologists, may represent an essential issue for an...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... investigated, and the operation will be planned with as little trauma as possible, in order to preserve the hard and soft surrounding structures Clinical case A 30 years old Caucasian patient came ... patient reported localized pain and a slight homolateral submandibular lymphadenopathy, without functional limitations or fever No occlusal hindrance was caused by these supernumerary teeth Although ... investigation and after the assessment of 380 radiographic exams, such as X-Ray Dental Panoramic Tomogram and Denta-Scan (Fig 6) of the inferior maxillary bone Exodontia led to remission of the algic...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... Asian Morita S[29] 1998 Japan Asian van Lieshout EM[30] 1999 The Netherlands Caucasian Tan W&[31] 2000 China Asian Lee JM[22] 2000 China(Taiwan) Asian Casson AG[21] 2003 Canada Caucasian Roth MJ[32] ... MJ[32] 2004 China Asian Casson AG[20] 2006 Canada Caucasian Cai L[25] 2006 China Asian Murphy SJ[33] 2007 Irish Caucasian Canova C[19] 2009 European Caucasian SNP site Sample size HWE MAF Genotypic ... esophageal cancer histologically, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and adenocarcinoma, and each has distinct etiologic and pathologic characteristics Squamous cell is cancer located in epithelial...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40