: Leptomeningeal disease (LMD) is a poor prognosis pattern of progression in patients with metastatic malignancy limited treatment options. Patients may be asymptomatic or present non-specific neurologic deficits, therefore gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging the brain and spine critical for establishing diagnosis. Although intent palliative context LMD, multidisciplinary approach st...

Abstract Chemithermomechanical pulp (CTMP) is often used in middle layers of multiply paperboards due to its high bulk at specified strength. Such a CTMP should consist well-separated undamaged fibres with sufficient bonding capacity. The basic objective this work examine the effect refining on bulk, taking into account conditions such as temperature, sulphonation, gap and refiner size. First s...

More environmentally benign alternatives to current chemical processes, especially large-scale, fundamental reactions such as ester condensations, are highly desirable for many reactions. Bulky diarylammonium pentafluorobenzenesulfonates and tosylates serve as extremely active dehydration catalysts for the ester condensation reaction of carboxylic acids with equimolar amounts of sterically dema...

BACKGROUND Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is used for the diagnosis and treatment of some mediastinal lesions. However, large-size tumours are usually approached by thoracotomy or sternotomy. We report our experience of a full thoracoscopic approach for bulky intrathoracic lesions. METHODS From November 2002 to March 2007, 14 patients with a bulky intrathoracic mass were referred for ...

malakoplakia is a rare disease with undefined etiology that has been almost exclusively reported in urology and pathology journals. we are presenting a case of colonic malakoplakia in an i8-year old young man who was referred to us with a four-year history of intermittent rectorrhagia. the pathological examination of the endoscopically resected specimen revealed pathognomonic features of malako...

to investigate the effects of the two-pore-domain potassium (k2p) channel task-3 in a syngeneic murine model for malignant glioma. malignant or high-grade glioma (who grade iii and iv) are the most common and most aggressive primary brain tumors in adults. despite aggressive multimodal therapy, the outcome of patients with malignant glioma remains poor. however, recent phase i and ii trials hav...