This article was accepted: 19 August 2011 Corresponding Author: Faizah Mohd Zaki, Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Center, Jalan Yaaacob Latiff, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, 56100, Malaysia Email: [email protected] INTRODUCTION Bochadalek hernia is due to improper fusion of the posterolateral foramina of the diaphragm, which was first described...

OBJECTIVE To compare postoperative vaginal incision separation and healing in patients undergoing posterior repair with perforated porcine dermal grafts with those that received grafts without perforations. Secondarily, the tensile properties of the perforated and non-perforated grafts were measured and compared. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a non-randomized retrospective cohort analysis of...

Watercress is a leafy vegetable of the family Brassicaceae that grows in and around water, it has a short shelf life (approximately seven days) and it is consumed raw or steamed. The objective of this work was to study the effect of packaging film and different storage temperature on the postharvest quality of watercress minimally processed. Treatments were: packed with plain film (PD961EZ, 31m...

An oil spill was simulated in a basin connected to the sea, which presents inside National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries. Two available natural fibrous materials were used after modification as sorbent for treatment spills. Sorption capacities LCLA PFLA onto crude preliminarily examined laboratory before applying field. amount wrapped polyester circular pad. Cylindrical-shaped acrylic...

One way to increase the heat transfer is to use perforated twisted tapes with different hole diameters, which largely improve heat transfer with an increase in the heat transfer area at the constant volume and more mixed flow. In the previous studies, the effect of nanofluids with perforated twisted tapes is less studied. In this work, the performance of water / iron oxide nanofluid in a double...

Of 156 patients with acute appendicitis, seen during 24 months, 21 had perforated. Age over 30 years especially in males, duration of symptoms over 48 hours, pulse rate on admission exceeding 100/ minute, generalised abdominal tenderness, leucocyte count in excess of 10,000 mm3 and a neutrophilia in excess of 70 percent, characterized patients with appendicular perforation. The rate of complica...

in this research a flat plate solar air collector was investigated under direct solar radiation consisted of a slatted glass cover, perforated absorber aluminum sheets (porosity 0.0177, 0.0314 and absorber thickness of 2.5 mm). the effect of porosity on absorber efficiency of collector was evaluated. six levels of air mass flow rates (0.0056 to 0.0385 kg m-2 s-1) were adopted.average solar ener...

BACKGROUND To define the benefits of different methods for diagnosis of pediatric appendicitis in Taiwan, a nationwide cohort study was used for analysis. METHODS We identified 44,529 patients under 18 years old who had been hospitalized with a diagnosis of acute appendicitis between 2003 and 2012. We analyzed the percentages of cases in which ultrasound (US) and/or computed tomography (CT) w...

early detection of free air in the peritoneal cavity is vital in diagnosis of life-threatening emergencies, and can play a significant role in expediting treatment. we present a series of cases in which bedside ultrasound (us) in the emergency department accurately identified evidence of free intra-peritoneal air and echogenic (dirty) free fluid consistent with a surgical final diagnosis of a p...