BACKGROUND/AIM Conventional axillary dissection in breast cancer surgery implicates the section of the neurovascular elements passing through the dissected tissue: the intercostobrachial nerve (ICBN) and lateral thoracic vein (LTV). Preservation of the ICBN during axillary dissection is well documented in the literature, with slightly contradictory results of its influence to postoperative pain...

We present two results characterizing minimizers of the Chan-Esedoḡlu LTV functional F (u) ≡ ∫ |∇u|dx + λ ∫ |u − f |dx; u, f : R → R. If we restrict to u = χΣ and f = χΩ, Σ,Ω ∈ R, the LTV functional reduces to E(Σ) = Per(Σ) + λ|Σ M Ω|. We show that there is a minimizer Σ such that its boundary ∂Σ lies between the union of all balls of radius nλ contained in Ω and the corresponding union of n λ ...

Dysplastic spondylolisthesis is a severe pathological condition, based on dysplastic changes in the lumbosacral part of spine, that causes asymmetry junction. The appropriate therapeutic algorithm remains controversial. As gold standard, surgical reposition slipped vertebra and 360° fusion affected spinal segment preferred. Thirty-two patients were operated between years 2005 2018. Different te...

Abstract Using unique micro data compiled from the real estate registry in Japan, we examine more than 400,000 loan-to-value (LTV) business loan ratios to draw implications for caps on LTV as a macroprudential policy measure. We find that ratio exhibits counter-cyclicality, behavior would have severely impeded efficacy of simple cap had it been imposed. also borrowers obtaining high-LTV loans a...