patient was treated with combined topical antibiotics and steroids. At 2 weeks’ follow-up, he was asymptomatic and the eyelid swelling and corneal epithelial defect had resolved. The stinger of a honeybee normally comprises 2 lancets wrapped together by a single stylet (Figure 2A). Slight pressure was experimentally applied to a fresh stinger by rubbing the stinger between 2 fingers. This cause...

The feeding behaviour of Pratylenchus penetrans on root hairs was observed using video-enhanced contrast microscopy. The behayiouk could be separated into phases of probing, ce11 penetration by the stylet, salivation and food ingestion for brief and extended ,periods. &ter cell penetration, a small “ salivation zone ” was formed around the stylet tip. No feeding tubes were observed. The root ha...

OBJECTIVES Vancomycin and fosfomycin are antibiotics commonly used to treat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. This study compares the in vitro inhibitory effects against MRSA of articulating cement spacers impregnated with either vancomycin or fosfomycin. METHODS Vancomycin-impregnated articulating cement spacers and fosfomycin-impregnated articulating cement space...

Four occlusal marking media (Parkell film, articulating silk, articulating paper and T-Scan foil) were tested to assess whether they affected neuromuscular function during occlusal marking events. Muscle activity of the anterior temporalis (TA) and superficial masseter (MS) muscles were obtained from surface EMG measurements during a slow closure to occlusion followed immediately by a forceful ...

A new pacing lead extraction system (VascoExtor, VascoMed, Germany) with a universally applicable locking stylet was used over a period of 12 months to extract 25 permanent pacemaker leads (mean implantation time 3.9 +/- 3.8 years) in 16 patients who had pacemaker infection (n = 13), lead dysfunction (n = 2), or before an automatic defibrillator implant (n = 1). With use of this system, we were...

Video-intuboscopy gives a video display of the view from the tip of the tracheal tube during conventional laryngoscopy, and was developed particularly to assist the immediate management of unexpected difficult intubation. A lightweight, malleable video-optical intubation stylet transmits the view from the stylet tip onto a monitor. It is inserted in the tracheal tube before starting anaesthesia...

This paper describes the design of a compact, lightweight CT-compatible, drill-press that is designed to be used in either a hand-held or stand-alone mode to assist with percutaneous bone based interventions. Previous medical drilling tools that have been developed have a metal structure and typically have one actuator for advancing the drill (feed) and another for rotating it (speed). After de...

Four new species of marine polycystidid microturbellarians (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia) are described from Cuba and Panama. These Brachyrhynchoides ortizi sp. nov., Djeziraia adriani Phonorhynchoides lalanai Sabulirhynchus ibarrae nov. All occur in Cuba, P. was also retrieved the Pacific coast From latter locality, we report axi Artois & Schockaert, 2000. readily distinguished their c...