Commencing with the history of cinema and of communicative technology, this essay focuses on the ways the cinematic sensibility and urban existence have influenced the contemporary experience of surveillance and complexity. And vice versa.

OBJECTIVE To compare Dual-Head coincidence gamma camera (DCD-AC) with dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) in viability assessment, using functional recovery as the gold standard. METHODS Twenty-one patients were prospectively studied, with coronary artery disease and severe left ventricular dysfunction undergoing DSE and DCD-AC at baseline and DSE three months after revascularization. ...

Sir, The newly-developed 'Thermal Sensibility Tester' , 1 ,2 has been used for several studies in the diagnosis of leprosy with interesting results, We discovered that it has not been clarified whether this Thermal Sensibility Tester was also designed for testing for early peripheral nerve damage (hand and foot) in leprosy patients, Some believe that this tester could be used in the fol low-up ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence, severity and duration of lingual tactile and gustatory function impairments after lower third molar removal. STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study with intra-subject measures of 16 patients undergoing lower third molar extractions. Sensibility and gustatory functions were evaluated in each subject preoperatively, one week and one month after the extracti...

INTRODUCTION The Boston Naming Test (BNT) is the most frequently used test of confrontation naming. Due to its length, several abbreviated forms have been proposed. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to develop a short form for the Spanish version of the BNT that could detect early semantic changes in Alzheimer s disease (AD). PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred and three patients with diagnos...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this article is to evaluate a new method of DIEP flap neurotization using a reliably located recipient nerve. We hypothesize that neurotization by this method (with either nerve conduit or direct nerve coaptation) will have a positive effect on sensory recovery. METHODS Fifty-seven deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flaps were performed on 35 patients. Neurot...