Objective: This retrospective study evaluates probability of survival and mode of recurrence in patients with a microscopically positive bronchial resection margin following resection for primary bronchogenic carcinoma, as well as in ̄uence of radiotherapy on survival. Methods: From January 1986 to July 1997, 40 patients had a microscopically positive bronchial resection margin following a macro...

Conventions and Notations (1) The measure space (M;M; d ) is interpreted as having M as the underly set, M the sigma algebra on M , and d the mesaure on M: If M is a metric space then M is taken as the sigma algebra generated by all its metric-open sets. (2) For two measure spaces (M;M; d ) ; (M1;M1; d 1) and (M M1;M M1; d d 1) is their product measure space. All measurs in the paper are consid...

480 D use diff erent strategies to survive and fl ourish with erratically available water (Hamerlynck et al., 2002; Lombardini, 2006). Th e persistence of soil water within a particular depth range and its characteristic time scales of fl uctuation (Katul et al., 2007) help determine the resulting plant community. Th e depth to which infi ltration percolates and the degree to which water is ret...

Dear Editor, Neurolymphomatosis is a rare clinical entity and has mainly been described as primary lymphomatous infi ltration of the nerves and as a relapse or progression of disease after previous treatments. In this case report, we describe an unusual occurrence of neurolymphomatosis evolving in mid-cycle chemotherapy. Case Report An 80-year-old Chinese lady was diagnosed with diffuse large B...

Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a glomerulopathy primarily caused by podocyte injury that leads to focal adhesions formation between the glomerular tut and the visceral layer of Bowman capsule (1,2). h e global incidence of FSGS has been estimated at 8 cases/million/year, with 40-60% of patients developing end-stage renal disease (ESRD) within 10 to 20 years at er diagnosis (3,4). ...

CASE } Mary J, a 65-year-old woman with stage 3 chronic kidney disease (CKD), is in your offi ce for a follow-up appointment. Over the past 6 months, she has noticed a decrease in her energy level. On her routine blood work, you see that her hemoglobin has been slowly declining over the past year. It is now 9 g/dL and her estimated glomerular fi ltration rate (GFR) is 40 mL/min. How would you e...

Dear Editor, Recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) lies in close proximity with the thyroid gland. Thus, thyroid diseases, mainly the malignant ones, tend to cause irreversible recurrent laryngeal nerve damage due to the infi ltration of the tumour cell. RLN damage due to benign lesion particularly from a solitary thyroid cyst is a rare incident. We report a case of a patient with right vocal cord pa...

In this paper, we investigate higher direct images of log canonical divisors. After we reformulate Koll ar's torsion-free theorem, we treat the relationship between higher direct images of log canonical divisors and the canonical extensions of Hodge ltration of gradedly polarized variations of mixed Hodge structures. As a corollary, we obtain a logarithmic version of Fujita-Kawamata's semi-posi...

An integrated modelling approach of Chemical Vapour In ltration of a brous preform by methyltrichlorosilane, featuring coupled reactor uid mechanics and porous medium gas transport has been developed. The coupling between transport/reaction phenomena inside and outside the preform is rather strong, both physically and numerically. An important counter-e ect of the reactive preform on the surrou...