Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (TBNA), utilizing the flexible fibrobronchoscope, was one of the diagnostic procedures administered to the 148 cases examined. By means of the combination of transbronchial biopsy with brushing, 110 of those 148 patients were determined to have lung cancer. Thus, the diagnostic yields of TBNA, biopsy and brushing were 70.9% (78/110) 69.09% (76/110) and 65.45% (7...

Severe early childhood caries remains the most common chronic disease affecting children. The multifactorial etiology of caries has established a controversy about which risk factors were more significant to its development. Therefore, our study aimed through meticulous statistical analysis to arrange the "well agreed upon" common risk factors in order of significance, to aid the clinician in t...

Literature dealing with the mechanisms of hair breakage in combing and brushing published so far has been reviewed as a background for the critical evaluation of the method and data analysis of the paper “Statistical Analysis of Hair Breakage. II” by Evans and Park (1). Accumulated knowledge about hair breakage in these grooming processes indicates that hair breakage in combing and brushing res...

OBJECTIVES This investigation examined current practices of brushing, flossing, and periodic dental visits and their association with periodontal health status. METHODS Data were collected using face-to-face interviews and 40-minute in-home dental examinations with a probability sample of adults 18 years of age or older, having at least one tooth, and living in housing units in the Detroit tr...

  Five hundred eighty patients underwent diagnostic flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy: during June 1988 to March 1993 at the bronchoscopy center of Kerman university of medical sciences. Seventy six specimens were obtained from patients with bronchogenic carcinoma and 155 from patients with benign disease of the lung. The efficiency of brushing and washing techniques was compared with forceps b...

background and aims. early childhood caries (ecc) is a public health problem with biological, social and behavioural determinants and the notion that the principal etiology is inappropriate feeding modalities is no longer tenable. hence this study was undertaken to assess the relationship between ecc and socio-demographic factors, dietary habits, oral hygiene habits and parental characteristics...

The commercial use of mechanical stimulation to control transplant growth is quite limited. To be commercially successful, the technique must be simple and flexible, and must not reduce plant quality. Brushing was applied to tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) seedlings growing at a density of 2100 plants mby daily stroking with a piece of polystyrene. Ten or twenty daily strokes typically provide...

PURPOSE Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is highly prevalent in southern China and characterized by a strong association with EBV. We aimed to detect EBV DNA and cancer-related gene promoter hypermethylation in nasopharyngeal (NP) brushing samples and provide a novel noninvasive approach for NPC detection. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Twenty-eight NPC cases and 26 noncancerous subjects were prospectivel...