Sentinel lymph node biopsy has become the standard of clinical care in staging axillary lymph nodes for breast carcinoma. While deemed safe and effective, methylene blue dye has been associated with infection, fibrosis, and skin and fat necrosis. The variable appearance of surgical dye-related fibrosis and fat necrosis on imaging studies poses a challenge to both radiologists and clinicians. We...

BACKGROUND A ten-year, single-surgeon study of 37 patients from 1993 to 2003 who underwent fat injections to improve contour deformities in their reconstructed breasts was reviewed. METHODS Fat was harvested from elsewhere in the body using a low-pressure syringe lipoaspiration system, washed gently with saline, and injected into depressions along the margins of reconstructed breasts. Blinded...

BACKGROUND Longer needle and complicated insulin injection technique such as injecting at a 45-degree angle and making skinfolds may decrease patient compliance to insulin injection therapy. In this light, shorter insulin needles have been recently developed. However, it is necessary to ascertain that such shorter needles are appropriate for Korean patients with diabetes as well. METHODS Firs...

669 IMAGES injection to correct defects in the upper and inner portion of both breasts using fat obtained through liposuction, 40 days before presentation at our hospital. Her initial surgery was performed in an aesthetic plastic surgery clinic, and the amount of fat extracted and transplanted was not precisely known. Ten days before presentation at our hospital, the patient visited the clinic ...

Tumour cell membrane fatty acid composition was investigated using an animal model of colorectal carcinogenesis. Eighty six male Wistar rats were fed experimental diets containing either 5% saturated fat or 20% saturated fat. Colorectal tumours were induced by intraperitoneal injection of azoxymethane, and control rats received saline. Animals were killed at intervals up to 26 weeks after the l...

This short paper reports the results of a survey on HCI Education in Brazil conducted via online questionnaire in August 2012. It highlights the differences in opinion across the roles of HCI professors, students, and practitioners. Author

To understand the function of the feeding-stimulatory peptide, galanin (GAL), in eating and body weight regulation, the present experiments tested the effects of both acute and chronic injections of this peptide into the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of rats. With food absent during the test, acute injection of GAL (300 pmol/0.3 microl) significantly increased phosphofructokinase activity in mu...