Significant Factors Affecting the Operation Time for Benign Parotid Tumor

Management of the recurrent, benign tumor of the parotid gland.

On occasion, the salivary gland surgeon is faced with clinical management questions related to the treatment of parotid gland tumors. Some of these are intraoperative and include margin of resection, management of the facial nerve when tumor abuts its branches, judicious use of lymphadenectomy, and the appropriateness of nerve grafting. Other questions concern postoperative care-such as the use...

a framework for identifying and prioritizing factors affecting customers’ online shopping behavior in iran

the purpose of this study is identifying effective factors which make customers shop online in iran and investigating the importance of discovered factors in online customers’ decision. in the identifying phase, to discover the factors affecting online shopping behavior of customers in iran, the derived reference model summarizing antecedents of online shopping proposed by change et al. was us...

Factors Affecting Co-operation in the Prisoner's Dilemma.

Benign cystic teratoma of the parotid gland.

Methods: This is the sixth reported case of a benign parotid teratoid tumor. A fourteen-year-old boy presented with a slowly enlarging left preauricular mass over a six month period. On exam he had a mobile cystic parotid mass just anterior to his left tragus with an associated small preauricular pit. His facial nerve was intact. MRI demonstrated high uptake on T1 but low signal on T2 weighted ...

Recognizing Significant Human-Related Factors Affecting System Reliability

System reliability can be affected by many factors, some of which are not machine-related. An important category of these non-traditional factors are human-related (HR) factors, such as expertise, collaboration, and motivation. Operational systems consist of machinery as well as human operators and decision makers. Therefore, a risk analysis is incomplete if the probability of human error is no...