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Tack Hernia: A New Entity

The repair of incisional and ventral hernias by the laparoscopic method is finding its place in the general surgical field. The use of tacks and transfascial sutures is commonplace. A new hernia has been identified. Two hernias have been seen following the successful repair of incisional hernias. These did not appear to be recurrent hernias as definite findings of fascial defects were present r...

Reply to Chan-Tack et al.

Assessing heat-adhesive emulsions for tack coats

“tack” Ion Trap for Efficient Photon Collection

for Workshop Ion Trap Technology, February 16 – 17, 2011, NIST Quantum Interference and Superradiance from entangled Atoms R.Wiegner, J. von Zanthier, G. S. AgarwalInstitut für Optik, Information und Photonik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, GermanyDepartment of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA Recent years have seen the ability to create large ...

Experimental bacterial endocarditis due to Streptococcus mitis.

It is important in order to advance the increasingly successful attack on subacute bacterial endocarditis to be able to produce the disease experimentally and to treat it with new and improved therapeutic regimens. Since endocarditis caused by Streptococcus mitis has not been consistently produced previously in the dog, a study was undertaken in which cardiovascular stress was created by the es...