BACKGROUND After completion of axillary dissection, many breast cancer patients with axillary sentinel nodal involvement are found to have regional disease limited to the sentinel nodes. These patients are exposed to the morbidity of axillary clearance without any expected therapeutic benefit. METHODS Sentinel node biopsy was performed either with Patent blue dye or with a combined dye, radio...

Error estimation and adaptive applications help to control the discretization errors in finite element analysis. The study implements radial point interpolation (RPI)-based error-recovery approaches displacement/pressure-based mixed approach is used formulation. RPI considers basis functions (RBF) polynomials together interpolate solutions, i.e., displacement over influence zones recover soluti...

The introduced method in this study consists of reducing a system of infinite boundary integro-differential equations (IBI-DE) into a system of al- gebraic equations, by expanding the unknown functions, as a series in terms of Laguerre polynomials with unknown coefficients. Properties of these polynomials and operational matrix of integration are rst presented. Finally, two examples illustra...

schwannomas are benign nerve sheath tumors that originate from any anatomical site. most of the schwannomas are found in the head, neck or limbs. schwannoma arising in a lymph node is extremely rare. we have found only four cases in the review of the literature. we experienced a case of intranodal schwannoma in a perigastric lymph node. a 72 year-old female underwent cholecystectomy due to clin...

Wide band code division multiple access (WCDMA) signals, transmitted by the base station high power amplifiers (HPAs), show high peak to average power ratios (PAPR), which results in nonlinear distortions. In this paper, using computer simulations effect of using a predistorted HPA on the symbol error rate (SER) of multi-user detectors in terms of output back-off (OBO) in the transmit power...

in this study test-day records of milk (kg), fat (g), and protein (g) yields, somatic cell score (scs, cells/ml) collected by animal breeding center of iran during 2007 and 2009 were used to estimate genetic parameters using random regression model. models with different order of legendre polynomials were compared using bayesian information criterion (bic).for milk, fat yield and scs genetic an...

Introduction: Several radiotracers are being used for sentinel node mapping in patients with breast cancer. In the current study, we reported our experience with 99m-Tc Phytate for sentinel node mapping in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. Methods: All breast cancer patients who underwent sentinel node mapping using 99m-Tc Phytate were included. All patients received intradermal peri-are...

this paper presents an efficient modification of the variational iteration method for solvingboundary value problems using the chebyshev polynomials. the proposed method can be applied to linearand nonlinear models. the scheme is tested for some examples and the obtained results demonstrate thereliability and efficiency of the proposed method.

graham higman has defined coset diagrams for psl(2,ℤ). these diagrams are composed of fragments, and the fragments are further composed of two or more circuits. q. mushtaq has proved in 1983 that existence of a certain fragment γ of a coset diagram in a coset diagram is a polynomial f in ℤ[z]. higman has conjectured that, the polynomials related to the fragments are monic and for a fixed degree...