There are many surgical techniques for treating gynecomastia. We report a new surgical technique in an adolescent with fatty glandular gynecomastia grade III, who was referred from an endocrinologist to our clinic. We excised the gynecomastia with nipple repositioning utilizing the dermoglandular flap (about 1 cm thickness and 10 cm width). After one month, no complication was detected and the ...

Permanente physicians and staff are part of a new phenomenon: Kaiser Permanente (KP) has never had so many older members living so long and with so many medical conditions. The logarithmic growth in technology and the concomitant heightened public expectations have created a menu of seemingly endless diagnostic and intervention choices. The practice implications of these numerous advances are n...

As early as 1993 an analysis of 34 studies of violent crime concluded that there was a robust tendency for rates of violence to be higher in more unequal societies [1]. In 1997, Messner and Rosenfeld [3] said “A finding that has emerged with remarkable consistency is that high rates of homicide tend to accompany high levels of inequality in the distribution of income.” Two years later in a stud...

In this article existing key points detection and matching methods are observed. The new wavelet transformation based key point detection algorithm is proposed and the descriptor creation is implemented. Keywords—key points, descriptors, SIFT, SURF, wavelet transform.

We propose a method for clustering and key points selection. We have shown that the proposed clustering based on the voting maximization scheme has advantages concerning the cluster’s compactness, working well for clusters of different densities and/or sizes. Experimental results demonstrate the high performance of the proposed scheme and its application to video summarization problem.

OBJECTIVES To describe the technique and preliminary results of the laparoscopic cystectomy as well as to review current indications and limitations of a nouvel surgical approach for a classical operation. METHODS A careful description of the key points of the technique of laparoscopic cystectomy and creation of an ileal conduit is provided. Operative and immediate complications of this opera...

background: providing a cross-sectional image is essential for preimplant assessments. computed tomography (ct) and cone beam ct (cbct) images are very expensive and provide high radiation dose. tangential projection is a very simple, available, and low-dose technique that can be used in the anterior portion of mandible. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of tangential proje...