An accurate TNM staging system is crucial for treatment guidance and prognosis prediction in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients. In this retrospective study, we evaluated the 8th edition of the Union for International Cancer Control/American Joint Committee on Cancer (UICC/AJCC) staging system for NPC treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). A total of 608 patients with biopsy...

S OF THE PATHOLOGY & HYGIENE SECTION PRESENTED DURING THE “8TH WORLD RABBIT CONGRESS” PUEBLA, MEXICO 7-10, 2004. The 8th World Rabbit Congress was organized in Puebla (Mexico) by the American Branch of WRSA. The proceedings containing the full text of all communications are available at www.dcam.upv.es\8wrc. DOMESTIC RABBIT ENTEROPATHIES. LICOIS D. INRA, BioAgresseurs, Santé, Environnement, Nou...

Oral Presentations 881 Sponsored Sessions 900 Poster Presentations 902 Index 912 8th World Congress on Itch (WCI) 2015 September 27–29, 2015 at the Nara Kasugano International Forum IRAKA, Nara, Japan N A RA JA PA N 2 015 8th World Co ng re ss o n I t c h

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify muscle atrophy in critically ill patients on ventilators. A comparison was made between limb circumferences and muscle areas on the day of admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) and on the 8th day after admission. METHODS The data were collected from 30 critically ill patients using ventilators at S hospital ICU in Seoul during the period f...

φ f (x) =   f (x)− f (x0) x−x0 , x , x0 f ′(x0), x = x0. Now, by the differentiability of f at x0, we have lim x→x0 x∈X\{x0 } φ f (x) = lim x→x0 x∈X\{x0 } f (x) − f (x0) x − x0 = f (x0) = φ f (x0). This proves that φ f is continuous at x0. Moreover, (1.1) holds for all x ∈ X by definition of φ f . ((1.1) is clearly true when x , x0. When x = x0, both sides of (1.1) are zero.) Therefore (ii) ...