PURPOSE The aim of this study was to clinically evaluate the application of pedicled buccal fat pad (BFP) in the surgical management of stage III and IV oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF). MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-eight cases of clinically and histologically diagnosed cases of OSMF were divided into 2 groups: group I (n = 15) and group II (n = 13), corresponding to clinical stage III and stag...

IN an exploration of the left atrium via an atrial septal defect during a recent cardiac catheterization in this laboratory, the catheter tip entered the left atrial appendage. An exaggerated "a" wave observed in the pressure contour from the left atrial appendage was striking and exceeded in amplitude the "a" wave from the left atrium proper. Following a similar observation shortly thereafter ...

BACKGROUND Although differences in the results of the bone marrow stimulation technique between the knee and ankle have been reported, a detailed mechanism for those differences has not been clarified. The purpose of this study was to examine whether morphological differences between the knee and ankle joint affect the results of drilling as treatment for osteochondral defects in a rabbit model...

A bstract We study new 1 / 24 BPS circular Wilson loops in ABJ(M) theory, which are defined terms of several parameters that continuously interpolate between previously known 6 (both bosonic and fermionic) 2 fermionic loops. compute the expectation value these operators up to second order perturbation theory using a one-dimensional effective field approach. Within dimensional regularization, we...

BACKGROUND Difficulty exists in scalp adaptation for cranioplasty with customized computer-assisted design/manufacturing (CAD/CAM) implant in situations of excessive wound tension and sub-cranioplasty dead space. To solve this clinical problem, the CAD/CAM technique should include algorithms to reconstruct a depressed contour to cover the skull defect. Satisfactory CAM-derived alloplastic impla...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Patients with esophageal atresia (EA) and tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) often suffer chronic respiratory tract disease. We previously reported that primary lung maldevelopment caused by deficient branching of embryonal airways in experimental EA-TEF was induced by Adriamycin. In this study, we investigated the Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway in the developing...

An 85-year-old man was admitted with claudication of the left leg. He underwent percutaneous intervention 3 months before this admission. Angiography revealed a linear filling defect extending from the left superficial femoral to the popliteal artery, and there was nearly total occlusion of the popliteal artery. Intraprocedural ultrasound confirmed the broken catheter with thrombus filling the ...

fixed myocardial defects in both stress and rest images, could be artifactual as a result of soft tissue attenuation. to increase specificity and identify the false positive results, we used gated technique to evaluate the wall motion and wall thickening as an index to differentiate real ischemic lesions from artifactual defects. 93 patients were studied. in 46 patients (48.8%) fixed perfusion ...

this case report presents a combination of surgical and prosthetic solutions applied to a case of oral implant rehabilitation in post-oncologic reconstructed mandible. bone resection due to surgical treatment of large mandibular neoplasm can cause long-span defects. currently, mandibular fibula free flap graft is widely considered as a reliable technique for restoring this kind of defect. it re...

PURPOSE The reconstruction of mandibular defects poses many difficulties due to the unique, complex shape of the mandible and the temporomandibular joints. With development of microvascular anastomosis, free tissue transplantation techniques, such as deep circumflex iliac artery (DCIA) flap and fibular free flap (FFF), were developed. The DCIA offers good quality and quantity of bone tissue for...