Carcinoma of the pancreas is increasing in the United States and has a grave prognosis. Surgical treatment has moved from subtotal pancreatectomy to total pancreatec tomy and now to en bloc resection and vascular replace ment. Pancreatic exocrine and endocrine insufficiency fol lowing resection add to the nutritional problems presented by this major surgery and its high complication rate. Recog...

1 Acting Director, Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service, U.S. Veterans Administration, Washington 25, D.C. THE limbs of m a n move in space and t ime, in response to systems of internal and external forces, and in accordance wi th the laws of mechanics. To restore to any satisfactory extent the functions lost through amputa t ion of an ext remi ty therefore requires in t imate knowledge not only...

SUCCES SFUL REVASCULARIZATION OF the anterior left ventricle in patients suffering from coronary artery disease has been achieved by implantation of the internal mammary artery (Vineberg operation) .'' An extension of this procedure to include epicardiectomy, seropericardiec-tomy and free omental grafting (Vineberg procedure) has been proposed on the basis of increased survival following experi...

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrojejunos− tomy (PEGJ) tube placement is a technical− ly simple procedure that is the most com− monly used method of endoscopic jeju− nostomy. However, it only allows the placement of jejunostomy tubes with a diameter of 3 ± 4 mm (9 ± 12 Fr), which are prone to luminal occlusion and migra− tion [1± 3]. In addition, it has been report− ed that PEGJ tubes may not preve...

Background: One of the government's strategies to support women's equal rights is issue a policy in which people reproductive age, both men and women, are expected participate Family Planning program as an effort raise awareness, willingness ability community improve their welfare independently. This study aims analyze influence attitude, partner support, level education on men's participation ...

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 111, NO. 11, 10 DECEMBER 2016 1838 *For correspondence. (e-mail: [email protected]) 12. Chan, F. K. et al., Preventing recurrent upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with Helicobacter pylori infection who are taking low-dose aspirin or naproxen. N. Engl. J. Med., 2001, 344, 967–973. 13. Lai, K. C. et al., Lansoprazole for the prevention of recurrences of ulcer ...

ly used in benign biliary disease including postoperative bile leaks [1]. Occasionally, these stents may migrate distally, most passing spontaneously without causing problems. Perforation of the colon due to migrated stents is a very rare but reported complication. A 57−year−old lady was referred 3 days after a laparoscopic cholecystectomy with right hypochondrial pain. Blood tests revealed leu...

We read with great interest the article by Toufektzian et al. regarding the relationship between postoperative mechanical ventilation and bronchopleural fistula (BPF) formation after pneumonectomy [1]. We congratulate the authors for their work and agree that every effort should be made to achieve the earliest possible extubation of the patient and that bronchial stump reinforcement is advisabl...

Even though there is presumably a lot of direct communication going on in a performance situation (through facial expressions, bodily cues, the signals of a conductor, if any, etc.), there will inevitably be situations where the coordination of the musicians rests on an (often tacit) agreement on “what to do next”. This agreement is in some cases only imagined (and hence the coordination happen...