Introduction: For tracheal stenosis, tracheal resection and anastomosis is widely considered the treatment of choice. However, this surgical approach is not feasible when the glottis and subglottis are involved or in patients with a poor general condition and tracheal stents are a plausible means of providing a permanent or temporary airway opening. Objectives: Evaluate the features and the res...

wiener index is a topological index based on distance between every pair of vertices in agraph g. it was introduced in 1947 by one of the pioneer of this area e.g, harold wiener. inthe present paper, by using a new method introduced by klavžar we compute the wiener andszeged indices of some nanostar dendrimers.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate outcomes of balloon dilation laryngoplasty for laryngeal stenosis in children. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Academic tertiary care department of pediatric otolaryngology. PATIENTS All children treated with laryngeal balloon dilation (primarily or secondarily following laryngeal surgery) from 2002 to 2010. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Stenosis severity, measured usi...

Concentrations of selected macro minerals (Ca, P, Na, K, and Mg) were determined from coolseason annual grass pasture forages over four consecutive late fall-winter-spring grazing seasons (2001-2005). Forage samples were taken from eight experimental pastures used in beef cattle grazing trials. Two, 2-yr experiments were conducted; animal and pasture data were reported previously (Myer and Blou...

PURPOSE The lack of clinical insight into recurrent croup often leads to underdiagnosis of an upper airway lesion, and subsequently, inadequate treatment. This study examined the underlying etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and clinical outcome of patients with a history of recurrent croup identified at initial presentation. The aim was to present common diagnostic features and suggest new diagno...

in this paper pi, szeged and revised szeged indices of an infinite family of ipr fullereneswith exactly 60+12n carbon atoms are computed. a gap program is also presented that isuseful for our calculations.