Context: Catheterizable pouches represent a good alternative in patients with continent urinary diversion (CUD) when neobladder reconstruction is contraindicated. Objective: This review summarizes the different techniques, indications and contraindications, functional results, outcomes, and complications of continent catheterizable pouches. Evidence acquisition: A PubMed Medline database resear...

On September 23, 2000, a jazz group performed in a concert hall at McGill University in Montreal and the recording engineers mixing the 12 channels of uncompressed PCM audio during the performance were not in a booth at the back of the hall, but rather in a theatre at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. To our knowledge, this is the first time that live audio of this quality h...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is not a priority on the health agenda in Africa and it remains a 'forgotten condition'. Most people in Africa do not have access to dialysis or transplantation, if they develop end-stage renal disease. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and HIV/AIDS enjoy a more prominent profile as a serious cause of morbidity and mortality, but despite the clear links of CVD and HIV wi...

Early modern: A collection of 47 human teeth discovered at Daoxian is anatomically modern yet surprisingly old. (Photo: S. Xing and X-J. Wu.) Peking Man, a skull discovered near Beijing in 1929, is one of the widely known fossils of our hominin relatives, but has so far led a lonely life in a culde-sac of our evolutionary tree, now dated to around 780,000 years ago. Early movers like Homo heide...

The ATSR World Fire Atlas is the longest global and consistent fire distribution series. The fire detection algorithms capacities and limitations will be discussed together with the method used to analyse the fire distribution trends. This trends are then presented by continent or sub continent and the first attempt to understand these evolution by Land Cover type is performed.

OBJECTIVE to present relatively uncommon surgical procedure for the treatment of localized prostate cancer. MATERIAL AND METHODS Six patients with localized prostate cancer (PCa) underwent perineal radical prostatectomy (PRP) from 2006 to 2010. The average age was 65 +/- 5.2 years. The average preoperative PSA was 7.8 +/- 1.3 ng/ml. Two patients had pT2b stage, while four had pT2c stage. Glea...

1.1. Susumu Ohno Susumu Ohno was born in 1928 and died in the year 2000. He had spent more than 40 years in the City of Hope in Los Angeles, USA. One of his famous books is Evolution by Gene Duplication, which was published in 1970 (1). In this book, he pointed out that genome duplication and gene duplication are very important not only for evolution but also for function and structures of the ...