Background: Thoracolumbar burst fracture is one of the most common spinal traumas. It was still indeterminate whether short-segment (SS) fixation was more effective and preferable than long-segment (LS) fixation. We therefore conducted this meta-analysis to assess the comparative safety and efficacy of SS and LS fixation for the treatment of thoracolumbar burst fracture. Methods: A literature s...

Despite its assumed importance for emotional well-being, studies investigating the positivity effect (PE) in older adults' information processing rarely tested its relationship with immediate or general affective outcome measures like emotional reactivity or emotional well-being. Moreover, the arousal level of the to-be-processed emotional stimuli has rarely been taken into account as a moderat...

PURPOSE To compare the short-term results of conventional versus mini-incision approaches to dynamic hip screw (DHS) fixation. METHODS 41 geriatric patients with either basal femoral neck or intertrochanteric fractures (Kyle types I to III) who underwent closed reduction and DHS fixation by a single surgeon were retrospectively reviewed. From January 2001 to June 2005, 6 men and 19 women aged...

We show that text readability prediction improves significantly from hard parameter sharing with models predicting first pass duration, total fixation duration and regression duration. Specifically, we induce multi-task Multilayer Perceptrons and Logistic Regression models over sentence representations that capture various aggregate statistics, from two different text readability corpora for En...

This study reports the preliminary results of surgical treatment of bone bruise of the tibial plateau. Twelve patients underwent percutaneous screw fixation with a mean follow-up of 15 months. The mean duration of surgery was 15 minutes. Preoperatively, 1 week postoperatively, 1 month postoperatively, 6 months postoperatively, and 12 months postoperatively, the mean visual analog scale scores w...

Individual differences in eye movements during picture viewing were examined across image format, content, and foveal quality in 3 experiments. Experiment 1 demonstrated that an individual's fixation durations were strongly related across 3 types of scene formats and that saccade amplitudes followed the same pattern. In Experiment 2, a similar relationship was observed for fixation durations ac...

We present seven children with atlantoaxial rotatory fixation (AARF) of more than three months' duration after an injury to the upper cervical spine. The deformity was irreducible by skull traction. MRI and MR angiography (MRA) of the vertebral arteries were performed in four children. The patients were neurologically intact. Thrombosis of the ipsilateral vertebral artery was noted in two patie...

Several automatic methods have been described for complement-fixation tests. However, each of these methods presents some inconvenience either due to cross contamination or to limited sensitivity. The new method consists basically in separating clearly the fixation stage from the haemolytic stage by using two different sampler plates placed on the same sampler. By this procedure, it becomes pos...

The authors report the results of 1-stage external fixation using a locking plate in 116 tibial fractures (85 closed and 31 open). The patients were followed for an average of 22 months. The mean duration of surgery was 42 minutes. The mean fracture healing time was 12 weeks for proximal, 20 weeks for shaft, 14 weeks for distal, and 24 weeks for multisegmental tibial fractures. Nonunion, deep i...

introduction: we hypothesized that inappropriate attention during the period of abstinence in individuals with substance use disorder can result in an inadequate perception of emotion and unsuitable reaction to emotional scenes. the main aim of this research was to evaluate the attentional bias towards emotional images in former substance abusers and compare it to healthy adults. methods: paire...