Background. Invasive differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is relatively frequent, yet there is a paucity of specific guidelines devoted to its management. The Endocrine Committee of the American Head and Neck Society (AHNS) convened a panel to provide clinical consensus statements based on review of the literature, synthesized with the expert opinion of the group. Methods. An expert panel, selec...

Treatment of traumatic hip dislocation can be conservative one with closed reduction, made within 48 hours of the accident, or surgical one. Surgical therapy includes many techniques, which are divided on intra and extra-articular ones. Among surgical procedures practice in hip luxation in dogs are: prosthetic capsule repair, joint capsule imbrication, transposition of greater trochanter, prost...

introduction: vascular abnormalities are relatively uncommon lesions, but head and neck is a common region for vascular malformation which is classified as benign tumors. in this paper, the authors report a rare presentation of vascular malformation in the tongue and its managements. case report: an 18 months 2 old child presented with a giant mass of tongue which caused functional and aestheti...

background: to investigate the effect of zinc sulphate for prophylaxis of radiation-induced oral mucositis in patients with head and neck cancer. materials and methods: in the department of radiation oncology, ankara numune education and research hospital, 40 patients with head and neck cancer were selected randomly to receive either zinco-c 25 mg, four tablets daily or control group who did no...

The bearing plate is an important part of a tendon–anchorage subsystem; however, its function and safety can be compromised by factors such as fatigue corrosion. This paper explores the feasibility electromechanical impedance (EMI) technique for crack detection in prestressed anchorage. Firstly, theory EMI presented. Next, well-established anchorage literature selected target structure. Thirdly...

Pose estimation is an important part in human face recognition because head rotations will significantly affect the recognition accuracy. However, automated and accurate pose determination still remains an unsolved problem in the research community. In this paper, we propose a novel Elastic Energy Model to tackle this problem, which employs statistical energy contributions of a set of feature p...

Associating anchor text with pages, to which links are pointing, is a well-known approach to improve retrieval quality. It was used in the first version of Google [Brin and Page 1998]. On one hand, using the anchor text alone allows one to obtain a system with decent performance [Anh and Moffat 2010; Hiemstra and Hauff 2010]. We also know that the anchor text is a strong relevance signal from o...

Sign language is used by many people who were born deaf or who became deaf early in life as their first and/or preferred language. There is no writing system for sign languages; texts are signed on video. As a consequence, texts in sign language are hard to navigate, search and annotate. The BiBiKit project is an easy to use authoring kit which is being developed and enables students, teachers,...