Technique in Thecal Puncture: The Perfect Operation

Transovale Cisternal Puncture Technique

The article by Gomori and Rappaport [1 J in the January/February 1985 issue of AJNR was called to my attention . The modified fluoroscopically guided technique that the authors describe is not a new technique, but one that has been published previously on at least two separate occasions. I wrote an article detailing the same procedure in 1978 [2J. Although my colleagues and I evolved the techni...

A New Technique in Sternal Puncture

An image-guided technique for puncture of the superior temporomandibular joint cavity: clinical comparison with the conventional puncture technique.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to compare an image-guided puncture technique (IGPT) with conventional puncture technique (CPT) with respect to accuracy of needle entry, maximal mouth opening, and pain in pumping manipulation treatment of internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). STUDY DESIGN The subjects comprised 178 patients with internal derangement of the TMJ w...

Outcome after a "perfect" Fontan operation.

A study was undertaken to determine the early and long-term outcomes dictated by the Fontan state per se (a state in which the force driving pulmonary blood flow is solely or largely a residue, in the systemic venous pressure, of the main ventricular chamber's contractile force) and the transition (by surgery) to it from the state of congenital heart disease under optimal conditions (after a "p...

Inhibition of thecal androstenedione

Implants ofprogesterone on the day ofdioestrus II in the hamster induced on the following day an increase in circulating levels of progesterone (6\m=.\0\m=+-\0\m=.\7ng/ml, N = 8; sesame oil controls, <0.5 ng/ml, N = 6) and a decline in serum levels of LH (5\m=.\3\m=+-\0\m=.\4ng/ml; controls 12 \m=+-\2 ng/ml) and oestradiol (10 \m=+-\2 pg/ml ; controls 69 \m=+-\5 pg/ml). The production of andros...