Pocket Examiner in Surgery

A Pocket Surgery

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Efficacy of neopectoral pocket in revisionary breast surgery.

BACKGROUND An increasing number of patients present today with volume-depleted breasts from large saline or silicone gel-filled implants most commonly placed under the pectoral muscle. Revisionary (secondary or tertiary) surgeries are performed for late complications of breast augmentation, such as implant extrusion, gel bleed, rupture with extravasation of the gel, saline implant deflation, ca...

Intra-Examiner and Inter-Examiner Reproducibility of Paraspinal Thermography

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the intra-examiner and inter-examiner reproducibility of paraspinal thermography using an infrared scanner. MATERIALS AND METHODS The thermal functions of a commercially available infrared scanner (Insight Subluxation Station®) were evaluated for clinical reliability. Two practicing clinicians conducted the measures on 100 subjects. Intra ...

Examiner......................................M. Gilles CORDE

This thesis addresses the problem of combustion control for automotive engines. A method is proposed to complement existing controllers, which use lookup tables based on steady-state operation. During transients, the new control method adjusts fast control variables (ignition or injection time) to compensate for deviations in the cylinder initial conditions from their optimal values due to the ...