Background:   After cervical discectomy, autogenetic bone is packed into the cage to increase the rate of union between adjacent vertebral bodies, but donor site–related complications can still occur. In this study we evaluate the use   of hydroxyapatite granules as a substitute for autograft for interbody fusion.     Methods:   From November 2008 to November 2011, 236 patients participated in ...

Background & Importance: Spinal deformity is one of the most common disorders among the vertebral diseases that results from unnatural curvatures of spine, such as scoliosis and kyphosis. Spinal fusion surgery is used most commonly to treat certain types of spinal deformity. Herein, we reported the efficacy of posterior spinal fusion accompanied by instrumentation in patients with the...

Introduction: General health is composed of features that act as a shield in the face of stressful life situations and help couples have better performance in these situations. The present study was conducted to determine the role of cognitive belief, fusion and distortion in predicting the general health of couples. Materials and Methods: Research method was descriptive method. Populatio...

conclusions the data indicate that esat6-cfp10 could support the survival of m. tuberculosis in the host through altering the host immune response. it also indicates that the host may gain some level of protection from a second exposure to m. tuberculosis, as evidenced by increased proliferation of nr8383-ec. background mycobacterium tuberculosis is the major pathogen of tuberculosis, which aff...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 in this paper, a fully discretized bio-fidelity simulation model for bio-mechanical (kinematic) analysis of scoliosis for various patients was developed to analyze forces on vertebrae, loads acting on the intervertebral disc, corresponding angles between vertebrae, and tension in the spine muscles during lateral bending. it w...

in this paper we have proposed an approach for emotion detection in implicit texts. we have introduced a combinational system based on three subsystems. each one analyzes input data from a different aspect and produces an emotion label as output. the first subsystem is a machine learning method. the second one is a statistical approach based on vector space model (vsm) and the last one is a key...