Gallbladder retrieval following laparoscopic cholecystectomy through the umbilical or epigastric port site is at times tedious, may result in gallbladder perforation from excessive tearing forces applied to the gallbladder or from instrumental perforation while attempting to enlarge the fascia and is very "low tech" compared to the laparoscopic procedure. Port-site herniae develop when the fasc...

A simple impedance matching technique for inset feed grooved microstrip patch antenna based on the concept of coplanar waveguide feed line has been developed and investigated for a printed antenna at X-Band frequency of 10GHz. The proposed technique has been used in the design of Linear Grooved Microstrip patch antenna array. The characteristics of the antenna are determined in terms of Return ...

Introduction: The Galilean satellites represent a series of bodies that all formed from the same proto-Jovian nebula but are distinctly different in their physical properties, surface geology, and thermal evolution [1-4]. The explanation for many of these disparate characteristics is likely related to the radially varying conditions of the nebula during the earliest period of their formation [5...

THE purpose of this paper is mainly to describe swan-necked grooved forceps which have been constantly in use for about 6 years in suturing cataract sections, corneal grafts, corneal wounds, scleral flaps, and also mucosal flaps in dacryocystorhinostomy. Angled, blocked suture-tying forceps are also described and illustrated. Fig. 1 shows the general pattern of the forceps. The handles are thos...

A. Tsukernik, A. Palevski, V. J. Goldman, S. Luryi, E. Kapon, and A. Rudra School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, State University of New York, Stony Brook,...

introduction: transhiatal esophagectomy is a widely accepted approach for palliative resection of subcarinal esophageal cancers. this study was designed to evaluate the necessity of routine thoracostomy tube insertion in this technique.  methods: this descriptive study was conducted on 123 consecutive patients with esophageal cancers undergoing transhiatal esophagectomy from march 2001 to febru...

The authors report two cases with distension of the obturator internus bursa identified on MR images, and describe the location and characteristic features of obturator internus bursitis; the "boomerang"-shaped fluid distension between the obturator internus tendon and the posterior grooved surface of the ischium.

Liquid in grooved capillaries, made by e-ginserting a plate in a cylindrical tube, exhibits unusual spreading and flow properties. One example is capillary rise, where a long, upward tongue on top of the usual meniscus has been observed along the groove. We attribute the underlying mechanism to a thermodynamic instability against spreading for a (partial

conclusions there was a decrease in cognitive function, including attention, visual memory, naming, and executive function, as well as psychomotor function among residents of department of anesthesiology and intensive care, faculty of medicine, universitas indonesia, who underwent 12 working hours. results cognitive stimulation” test revealed statistically significant decrease at sequential ima...