Diverticulum of the caecum is a rare lesion. From a clinical point of view, the inflammation it causes can mimic symptoms of acute appendicitis, causing difficulties in diagnosis and thus prescription of appropriate treatment. It is almost impossible to differentiate this disease from acute appendicitis through physical examination alone, and radiological imaging may also prove insufficient. Fo...

The vermiform appendix, a small structure without any known function in human being has been regarded as a vestigial remnant of a more developed distal caecum in man's herbivorous ancestors. A detailed study of the morphological and histological changes in the appendix and the caecum of different mammals with varying dietary habits revealed a distinctly well-defined vermiform appendix in rabbit...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) has become one of the most common surgical procedures to date. To improve and standardize this technique further, cost-effective and reliable animal models are needed. METHODS In a pilot study, 30 Wistar rats underwent laparoscopic caecum resection (as rats do not have an appendix vermiformis), to optimize the instrumental and surgical parameters. A s...

We present the dialogue component of the speech-to-speech translation system verb-mobil. In contrast to conventional dialogue systems it mediates the dialogue while processing maximally 50% of the dialogue in depth. Special requirements (ro-bustness and eeciency) lead to a 3-layered hybrid architecture for the dialogue module , using statistics, an automaton and a planner. A dialogue memory is ...

Hastalar ve Metod: Marmara Bölgesi’nde dört şehirde bulunan toplam 10 cezaevindeki tüm hükümlüler çalışmaya alındı. Taramalar Ocak 2006-Ocak 2007 tarihleri arasında yapıldı. Radyolojik taramalar mobil-X ray cihazıyla yapıldı. Tüberküloz şüphesi olan olgulardan bakteriyolojik inceleme amaçlı balgam örneği alındı. Akciğer grafileri birbirinden bağımsız dört hekim tarafından ayrı ayrı değerlendiri...

An experiment (complete randomised design) was conducted to investigate the effects of Laminaria hyperborea and Laminaria digitata seaweed extract inclusion on gut morphology, selected intestinal microbiota populations, volatile fatty acid concentrations and the immune status of the weaned pig. Twenty-eight piglets (24 days of age, 6.5 ± 1.4 kg live weight) were assigned to one of four dietary ...