Burried broken extraction instrument fragment

Broken instrument removal. The endodontic challenge.

Intrapelvic Protrusion of a Broken Guide Wire Fragment during Fixation of a Femoral Neck Fracture

Breakage of DHS guide wire during surgery and its migration into the pelvis through the hip joint is a rare complication and its removal can be very challenging for the surgeon. We share our experience of a similar case wherein we used an ‘iliofemoral’ approach to successfully remove the broken transfixing guidewire from the hip joint. Although iliofemoral approach is similar to the lateral win...

Intrapelvic Protrusion of a Broken Guide Wire Fragment during Fixation of a Femoral Neck Fracture

  During fixation of a femoral neck fracture in a 23-year-old male patient with cannulated screws, a broken guide wire fragment inadvertently advanced through the hip joint and protruded into the pelvis. A second surgical approach was needed to remove the broken fragment from the pelvis. Awareness of such a potentially devastating complication will make surgeons more cautious during implementa...

Removal of broken fragment of biopsy forceps with magnetic extractor.

Transbronchial lung biopsy performed on a 51-year-old woman for the evaluation of nodular densities with cavities in the bilateral apical areas was complicated by the breakage of the biopsy forceps. The broken fragment of the forceps was successfully retrieved by use of the magnetic extractor through a fiberoptic bronchoscope under fluoroscopic guidance.

Automatic Parallel Fragment Extraction from Noisy Data

We present a novel method to detect parallel fragments within noisy parallel corpora. Isolating these parallel fragments from the noisy data in which they are contained frees us from noisy alignments and stray links that can severely constrain translation-rule extraction. We do this with existing machinery, making use of an existing word alignment model for this task. We evaluate the quality an...