324 May 2014, Vol. 104, No. 5 Rapid, minimally invasive adult voluntary male circumcision with the Unicirc, a novel disposable device To the Editor: I congratulate Millard et al.[1] on their publication. My co-workers and I have studied the PrePex male circumcision device in three clinical trials,[2-4] and I would like to share our opinions. The Unicirc is intended to be used exclusively with g...

Bleeding from ectopic varices is rare and accounts for only 1% and 5% of all variceal bleeding. However, once the bleeding starts, it becomes difficult to control and is sometimes fatal. We faced a 65-year-old man with ruptured duodenal varices and injected N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate into the spurting duodenal varices. As a result, oozing was successfully controlled. Subsequently, the patient rema...

Since that time, new data have become available, and these have been incorporated into the monograph and taken into consideration in the present evaluation. Chem. Abstr. Name: 1,2-Benzenedicarboxylic acid, bis(2-ethylhexyl) ester IUPAC Systematic Names: Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate; phthalic acid, bis(2-ethyl-hexyl) ester Synonyms: Bis(2-ethylhexyl) 1,2-benzenedicarboxylate; bis(2-ethylhexyl) or...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to comparatively evaluate three different stabilization methods with regards to the amount of shrinkage in free gingival graft. METHODS Forty-five patients were included in three study groups: where stabilization was achieved with conventional technique, cyanoacrylate or microsurgery. In the conventional group standardized 5-0 sutures were used. In the mic...

OBJECTIVES Tissue adhesives can be used to prevent pulmonary air leaks, which frequently occur after lung interventions. The objective of this study is to evaluate local and systemic effects of fibrin and cyanoacrylate tissue adhesives on lung lesions in rabbits. METHODS Eighteen rabbits were submitted to videothoracoscopy + lung incision alone (control) or videothoracoscopy + lung incision +...

Chemical composition of the essential oils extracted from the leaves, stems, flowers and seeds of  Heracleum rechingeri Manden. were analyzed by GC and GC/MS. Twenty-four components were characterized for the leaf oil with Octyl acetate(47.2%), Octanol(15.2%) and E-caryophyllen (5.7%) as the main constituents. 25 compounds were identified in the stem oil with Elemicin (65.3%), Octyl acetate (13...

In this study, N,N-Dimethyl-N-Octyl chitosan was synthesized. Nanoparticles containing insulin were prepared using PEC method and were statistically optimized using the Box-Behnken response surface methodology. The independent factors were considered to be the insulin concentration, concentration and pH of the polymer solution, while the dependent factors were characterized as the size, zeta po...