BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety of robotic modified radical neck dissection compared to open modified radical neck dissection. METHODS We enrolled 78 patients who were diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer and underwent total thyroidectomy, bilateral central neck dissection, and modified radical neck dissection between March 2011 and February 2013. Of these p...

*Correspondence: Toshihiko Baba, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogayaku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan e-mail: [email protected] In this study, we investigated the performance of Si lattice-shifted photonic crystal waveguide (LSPCW) Mach–Zehnder modulators theoretically and experimentally. The LSPCW increases the phase shift...

helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) is classified as a class i carcinogen. the low infection rate seen in developed countries (8.9%) compared with a high infection rate (52%-98%) in developing countries indicates a strong association between infection prevalence and socioeconomic status. adhesion of h. pylori to gastric epithelial cells is an important aggressive factor. one of the genes that encod...