BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES About 20% of patients with inguinal hernia present bilateral hernias in the diagnosis. In these cases, laparoscopic procedure is considered gold standard approach. Mesh fixation is considered important step toward avoiding recurrence. However, because of cost and risk of pain, real need for mesh fixation has been debated. For bilateral inguinal hernias, there are few s...

Mandibular fractures have a high incidence among facial bone fractures that necessitated prompt treatment. The use of autogenous graft as a fixation device for mandibular fracture may have an important role in bone healing with accepted biological effect, and normal bone growth especially in pediatric patients. Moreover it avoids the side effect of both inter maxillary fixation (IMF) and bone p...

Photosynthetic carbon metabolism of isolated spinach mesophyll cells was characterized under conditions favoring photorespiratory (PR; 0.04% CO(2) and 20% O(2)) and nonphotorespiratory (NPR; 0.2% CO(2) and 2% O(2)) metabolism, as well as intermediate conditions. Comparisons were made between the metabolic effects of extracellularly supplied NH(4) (+) and intracellular NH(4) (+), produced primar...

Diffusion methods were used to investigate the fixation probability, average time until fixation and extinction, and cumulative heterozygosity and genetic variance for single mutant genes in finite populations with partial inbreeding. The critical parameters in the approximation are the coefficient of inbreeding due to nonrandom mating (F) and the effective population size (Ne), which also depe...

OBJECTIVE The less invasive surgical stabilisation (LISS) plate fixation method is an orthopaedic procedure for the fixation of distal femoral fractures. Early physiotherapy treatments of motion and mobilisation have been advocated following this procedure. This article critically appraises the evidence base assessing the early rehabilitation of patients following LISS fixation for distal femor...

Cementless femoral total knee arthroplasty (TKA) components use a press-fit (referred to as interference fit) achieve initial fixation. A higher fit could lead superior fixation, but it also introduce more damage the bone during implantation. The purpose of current study was investigate effect on micromotions and gap opening/closing at bone-implant interface. Experimental tests were performed i...

Nonunion of a sacral fracture is a rare but serious clinical condition which can cause severe chronic pain, discomfort while sitting, and significant restriction of the level of activities. Fracture nonunions reportedly occur most often after nonoperative initial treatment or inappropriate operative treatment. We report a case of fracture nonunion of the sacrum and pubic rami that resulted from...