conclusions vacuum-assisted abdominal closure is a good technique for temporary abdominal closure. in patients who are unable to achieve fascial closure, skin closure alone is safe. results after 157 trauma laparotomies, 35 (22%) were open abdomen cases with an average injury severity score was 35. ninety-four percent of open abdomens occurred after damage-control surgery. temporary vacuum-assi...

In 1965 L. A Zadeh [11] introduced fuzzy sets as a generalization of ordinary sets. After that C. L. Chang [2] introduced fuzzy topology and that led to the discussion of various aspects of L-topology by many authors. The Čech closure spaces introduced by Čech E. [1] is a generalization of the topological spaces. The theory of fuzzy closure spaces has been established by Mashhour and Ghanim [4]...

The degree of glottal closure during phonation has an influence on voice quality and it is related to the robustness of the voice source. To quantify glottal closure a frame of reference was created by investigating 47 healthy men and 92 healthy women with no vocal complaints using videolaryngostroboscopy. Observing recorded images the degree of glottal closure was rated with a percentage. Resu...

OBJECTIVES To analyze margin status and prognostic factors for complications in patients undergoing vulvectomy for invasive squamous cell cancer (iSCC) with and without plastic-assisted closure. METHODS Demographic and clinical data were collected on 94 patients with iSCC who underwent vulvectomy between 2004 and 2013. All pathology slides were re-reviewed by two gynecologic pathologists. Dat...

Let k be a finite extension of Qp and Ek be the set of the extensions of degree p over k whose normal closure is a p-extension. For a fixed discriminant, we show how many extensions there are in EQp with such discriminant, and we give the discriminant and the Galois group (together with its filtration of the ramification groups) of their normal closure. We show how this method can be generalize...

PURPOSE To evaluate different mechanisms of primary angle closure (PAC) and to quantify anterior chamber (AC) parameters in different subtypes of angle closure disease using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT). METHODS In this prospective study, 115 eyes of 115 patients with angle closure disease were included and categorized into three groups: 1) fellow eyes of acute angle...

Purpose To compare biometric parameters between primary angle closure with longer axial length (AL) and those with medium or shorter AL. Methods We prospectively recruited 138 primary angle-closure patients. Low-coherence interferometry and ultrasound biomicroscopy examinations were performed before laser peripheral iridotomy and pilocarpine treatment. AL was categorized as shorter (<22.5 mm)...

This technical report summarized facts from the basic theory of generalized closure spaces and gives detailed proofs for them. Many of the results collected here are well known for various types of spaces. We have made no attempt to find the original proofs. 1. Set-Valued Set-Functions 1.1. Closure, Interior, Neighborhood, and Convergent. In this section, which in part generalizes the results o...

BACKGROUND Significant morbidities, including angina, symptomatic heart failure, and myocardial infarction, have been reported after coronary artery fistula (CAF) closure; however, predictors that may be associated with adverse outcomes have not been established. The goal of this investigation is to describe the long-term outcomes witnessed in patients with either treated or untreated CAF at ou...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate the effect of catheter-based patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure on the occurrence of arterial bubbles after simulated dives. BACKGROUND PFO is a risk factor of decompression sickness in divers due to paradoxical embolization of bubbles. To date, the effectiveness of catheter-based PFO closure in the reduction of arterial bubbles has not been demonstrat...