Purpose: Recently, conventional tissue repairs are gradually being replaced by tension-free hernioplasties using meshes (mesh repairs) in hernia surgery. The aim of the present study was to evaluate patterns of recurrent hernias according to the types of previous hernioplasties. Methods: From August 2005 to July 2008, 18 hernioplasties were performed in recurrent cases at Chungbuk National Univ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the rate of surgical site infection for open elective umbilical hernia repairs and to identify the factors related to an increased risk of infection and/or recurrence. METHODS A retrospective analysis of 152 open elective umbilical hernia repairs between 2003 and 2007 was performed. RESULTS Overall, 19% of repairs became infected. Both h...

In the context of consistent query answering (CQA) from inconsistent databases, the notion of repair is fundamental. A repair is a new database instance that minimally differs from the original, inconsistent database, but does satisfy the integrity constraints. Minimality usually refers to a minimal set of tuples on which the two instances differ. In this paper we reexamine the process of corre...

Speech repairs introduce much noise in spoken language processing. Properly correcting speech repairs can help the speech recognizer to avoid the textual errors, and prevent the interpretation errors during the subsequent processing. Because the task of repair processing cannot defer to the latter (word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging and sentence parsing) stages, this paper employs acoust...

Identifying speech repairs is a critical part of annotating spontaneous speech. DialogueView is an annotation tool that provides visual and audio supports for directly annotating speech repairs. In this paper, we report the usability of clean play, a special feature implemented in DialogueView, which cuts out the annotated reparanda and editing terms and plays the remaining speech. We find that...

PURPOSE Biodegradable devices are available for all-inside meniscal repairs. One device, the BioStinger (Linvatec, Largo, FL), is made of molded poly-L-lactic acid. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of and any adverse events associated with meniscus repair using this device. TYPE OF STUDY Nonrandomized prospective cohort study. METHODS A prospective, consecutive, 3...