OBJECTIVE To analyse and compare the effect of stone site and size, method of lithotripsy, and level of experience on the results and complications of semi-rigid ureteroscopy for ureteric and renal pelvic stones. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between April 2010 and May 2011, 90 patients underwent 95 ureteroscopies, using 7.5- and 9-F semi-rigid ureteroscopes, with or without pneumatic or laser lithotr...

[1] There is, among scholars of religion, a recent materialist turn that approaches the study of religion not primarily as a set of de-contextualized beliefs or as free-floating symbol-systems but as embodied practices. Part of this turn involves interdisciplinary attention to the visual aspects of belief. Thus images are no longer conceived mainly as illustrations of textual narratives or as s...

Recurrence of Frontometaphyseal Dysplasia in Two Sisters With a Mutation in FLNA and an Atypical Paternal Phenotype: Insights Into Genotype–Phenotype Correlation Debora Bertola,* Maria Rita Passos-Bueno, Alexandre Pereira, Chong Kim, Tim Morgan, and Stephen P. Robertson Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Unidade de Genética do Instituto da Criança, São Paulo, Brazil University ...

1 Stone PA, AbuRahma AF, Flaherty SK, Bates MC. Femoral pseudoaneurysms. Vasc Endovascular Surg 2006; 40: 109–16. 2 Kresowik TF, Khoury MD, Miller BV et al. A prospective study of the incidence and natural history of femoral vascular complications after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. J Vasc Surg 1991; 13: 328–33. 3 Morgan R, Belli AM. Current treatment methods for postcatheteri...

By its academic-aristocratic approach at the beginning, and the mere artistic vision of art afterwards, Beaux Arts had become the cottage of hopes and dreams for art-lovers and artists from Iran and all around the world. Accordingly, Iran, like many other countries, has had consecutive associations and interactions with these schools, especially beaux-arts school, in qualitative and quantitativ...

INTRODUCTION To provide a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCT) comparing semi-rigid ureteroscopic lithotripsy (URS) with laparoscopic ureterolithotomy (LU) for the treatment of the large proximal ureteral stone. MATERIALS AND METHODS A systematic literature review was performed in June 2015 using the PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science databases to identify...

In this work it is shown that semi-orthogonal functions are suitable tool to obtain new results about some classic topics of Orthogonal Polynomials on the unit circle. More precisely, it is raised the study of the orthogonality mesure through the zeros of semi-orthogonal functions. Besides, it can be chosen a suitable basis relates with semi-orthogonal functions, so that the representation of t...

CNL, intoduced by de Groote and Lamarche [11], is a conservative extension of Nonassociative Lambek Calculus (NL) by a De Morgan negation ∼, satisfying A∼/B ⇔ A\B∼. [11] provides a fine theory of proof nets for CNL and shows cut elimination and polynomial decidability. Here the purely proof-theoretic approach of [11] is enriched with algebras and phase spaces for CNL. We prove that CNL is a str...

BACKGROUND We aimed to assess the effectiveness of semi-rigid ureteroscopy and holmium laser lithotripsy in the treatment of impacted ureteral stones in children. MATERIAL/METHODS We evaluated a total of 32 children under the age of 18 years treated with ureteroscopic holmium laser lithotripsy for impacted ureteral stones between January 2005 and July 2013. Their stone-free state was defined ...