We report a case of successful laparoscopic distal gastrectomy with D2 lymph node dissection preserving the common hepatic artery branched from the left gastric artery for advanced gastric cancer with an Adachi type VI (group 26) vascular anomaly. A 76-year-old female patient was admitted with a diagnosis of advanced gastric cancer at the anterior wall to the lesser curvature of the antrum (cT3...

PURPOSE Although benign rolandic epilepsy (BRE) is a benign condition, it may be associated with a spectrum of behavioral, psychiatric, and cognitive disorders. This study aimed to assess the cognitive and other neuropsychological profiles of children with BRE. METHODS In total, 23 children with BRE were consecutively recruited. All children underwent sleep electroencephalography (EEG) and we...

Dr. Carl S. Haegler. Translated by Charles Heron Watson, M.A., M.B. (Edin.). Pp. xix., 218. Edinburgh and London: William Green & Sons. 1906. Until the present work was published, we believe there was but one book of importance in the English language which dealt in a thorough manner with the subject of the disinfection of the hands, though in the German language there are many. For this reason...

baha al-din mohammad b. husayn ameli, known as shaykh bahai (d.1031 a.h), is an illustrious scholar of the 10th and 11th century a.h., and one of the celebrities of safavid period. he was a prolific author and highly qualified not only in intellectual sciences but in traditional textual ones. thus he had a great impact on the posterity as well as his contemporaries. study and analysis of the ex...

Bernhard von Gudden was a psychiatrist in Prussia and he was summoned in March 1886 to examine King Ludwig II for his apparently insane activities like, profligate spending and erratic behaviour. A team of four estimable psychiatrists pronounced that he was not capable ruling. Consequently, he was dethroned and kept in a castle under supervision of von Gudden. Gudden championed the idea of 'no ...

AIM In dental trauma with severe periodontal tissue involvement, as dental avulsion and severe luxation, the splinting procedure requires the patient to maintain a scrupulous hygiene of the affected zone, so to allow an effective tissue healing. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a specific oral hygiene protocol in the treatment of patients with post-traumatic splinting, c...

INTRODUCTION The Gleason score (Gs) for prostatic cancer has a good prognosis correlation after radical prostatectomy, for this reason its correlation with the Gs in the biopsy can be useful. PATIENTS AND METHODS Two hundred fifteen patients with blind evaluation among three pathologists of their Gs in biopsy and in the corresponding radical prostatectomy specimen are presented. RESULTS The...

Super-refractory status epilepticus (SRSE) is defined as status epilepticus (SE) that continues or recurs 24 h or more after the onset of anesthetic therapy, including those cases where SE recurs on the reduction or withdrawal of anesthesia. Although SRSE is a rare clinical problem, it is associated with high mortality and morbidity rates. This article reviews the treatment approaches and the s...

In Integrated circuits a gargantuan portion of on chip power is expended by clocking systems, which comprises of timing elements such as flip-flops, latches and clock distribution network. These elements absorb approximately 30% to 60% of the total power dissipation in the system. In order to design high performance and power efficient circuits a scrupulous approach should be adopted to reduce ...

Vertebral artery dissection is one of the more frequent cerebral-vascular disorders in the young adult. The initial symptoms rarely consist of vertigo with clinical characteristics of Selective Monolateral Acute Vestibular Deficit Syndrome. The case is described of a patient, who arrived with intense rotatory vertigo associated with neurovegetative symptoms and spontaneous nystagmus, which we i...