Hemifacial spasm is a socially disabling condition that manifests as intermittent involuntary twitching of the eyelid and progresses to muscle contractions of the entire hemiface. Patients receiving microvascular decompression of the facial nerve demonstrate an abnormal lateral spread response (LSR) in peripheral branches during facial electromyography. The authors retrospectively evaluate the ...

logistic regression models are frequently used in clinicalresearch and particularly for modeling disease status and patientsurvival. in practice, clinical studies have several limitationsfor instance, in the study of rare diseases or due ethical considerations, we can only have small sample sizes. in addition, the lack of suitable andadvanced measuring instruments lead to non-precise observatio...

with the eight sassanians reliefs, naghsh-e rustam in marvdasht is a prominent complex safeguarding a complete collection of the sassanian period. seven of these reliefs have been repeatedly the subject of investigations thanks to their relatively better conditions. the fifth relief, however, has not yet been studied due to their damaged status. it depicts the full-face portrait of a sassanid k...

background: to seek pleasure is man’s innate nature. in his search for gratification, man has discovered a world of substances that intoxicated him. those who fell within its trap, their life changed, their families aggrieved and they shrank from company. the addiction remained alone in the end. to many death was a relief. methods: a community based cross-sectional study was conducted in the ca...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the pain relief in patients with unresectable and recurrent colorectal cancer treated with radiation plus 8 MHz radiofrequency-capacitive regional hyperthermia and to identify predictors of the good outcome. METHODS Between February 1986-May 2003, 41 patients with primarily unresectable and recurrent colorectal cancer that caused pain were treat...

Objectives The purposes of this study are to assess the effectiveness of CyberKnife® stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) in providing both initial and sustained pain relief for patients with both forms of trigeminal neuralgia (TN), assess potential prognostic factors, and examine treatment-related toxicities. Methods  The RSSearch(®) Patient Registry was screened for TN cases from July 2007 to June...

BACKGROUND Defense Force workers engaged in disaster relief activities might suffer from strong psychological stress due to the tasks that they had been involved. We evaluated how living environments, work environments, and individual factors psychologically affect those who engaged in disaster relief activities. METHOD Data generated with 1506 personnel engaged in the Great East Japan Earthq...

Disasters result in a substantial number of renal challenges, either by the creation of crush injury in victims trapped in collapsed buildings or by the destruction of existing dialysis facilities, leaving chronic dialysis patients without access to their dialysis units, medications, or medical care. Over the past two decades, lessons have been learned from the response to a number of major nat...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Regional analgesia for labor pain relief is effective and widely used. This study evaluated the controversial association between mode of operative delivery and patient-elective labor regional analgesia. METHODS We retrospectively compared the rates of instrumental vaginal and cesarean deliveries in parturients before the introduction, in the first 15 months after, and in t...

BACKGROUND Coccydynia is a rare but painful disorder characterized by axial coccygeal pain which is typically exacerbated by pressure. Management includes physical therapy/rectal manipulation, use of anti-inflammatory medications, modality use, coccygectomy, and fluoroscopically guided steroid injections. There are no studies documenting the efficacy of fluoroscopically guided coccygeal steroid...