ted, plastic biliary stents may be techni− cally challenging and sometimes unsuc− cessful [1]. Data from the literature report a retrieval success rate of 85%, with the remaining 15% requiring surgical removal [2]. The choice of retrieval technique is dependent on several factors, including biliary ductal dilatation, depth of stent migration, distal stent impaction, and biliary stricture distal...

Abstract Background Although several clinical reports demonstrated a durable patency rate after novel fluoropolymer-coated paclitaxel-eluting stent (Eluvia; Boston Scientific, Marlborough, MA, USA) placement, aneurysmal degeneration drug-eluting (Eluvia) placement has raised concerns. Here, we report case with progressive aneurysm formation on serial angiography and intravascular ultrasound ove...

Open reduction and internal fixation has been shown to be effective in the treatment of unstable distal radius fractures. When a dorsal approach is used, extensor tendons rupture or irritation are frequent and well known complications. Complications associated with volar plate fixation have not been studied to the same extent. In this study a homogenous series of 90 patients treated by volar pl...

A edge 2-rainbow dominating function (E2RDF) of a graph G is a ‎function f from the edge set E(G) to the set of all subsets‎ ‎of the set {1,2} such that for any edge.......................

the evaluation of the edge effects of forest roads on ecosystem is very useful to understand changes from forest road. with this regard, in this research the effect of main forest road construction on regeneration and biodiversity of established trees in edge of forest road was investigated at 35 m distance into forest area. an existing 10 years old road segment, with same physiographic propert...

Spontaneous internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection (sICAD) results from an intimal tear located around the distal carotid sinus. The mechanisms causing the tear are unknown. This case-control study tested the hypotheses that head movements increase the wall stress in the cervical ICA and that the stress increase is greater in patients with sICAD than in controls. Five patients with unilateral...

An increasing number of patients undergoing proton radiotherapy have cardiac implantable electrical devices (CIEDs). We recently encountered a situation in which a high-voltage coil on a lead from an implanted cardiac defibrillator was located within the clinical treatment volume for a patient receiving proton radiotherapy for esophageal cancer. To study the effects of the lead on the dose deli...

In vertebrates, the adult form emerges from the embryo by mobilization of precursors or adult stem cells. What different cell types these precursors give rise to, how many precursors establish the tissue or organ, and how they divide to establish and maintain the adult form remain largely unknown. We use the pigment pattern of the adult zebrafish fin, with a variety of clonal and lineage analys...

Alsanea, Fahed M. M.S., Purdue University, May 2014. Feasibility of Pulsed Proton Induced Acoustics for Dosimetry. Major Professor: Keith Stantz. Proton therapy has the potential to deposit its energy in tissue with high conformity to the tumor and significantly reduced integral dose to normal tissue compared to conventional radiation, such as x-rays. As a result, local control can be enhanced ...

the edge szeged index is a new molecular structure descriptor equal to the sum of products mu(e)mv(e) over all edges e = uv of the molecular graph g, where mu(e) is the number of edges which its distance to vertex u is smaller than the distance to vertex v, and nv(e) is defined analogously. in this paper, the edge szeged index of one-pentagonal carbon nanocone cnc5[n] is computed for the first ...