AIM The study was designed to evaluate the long term results of intraoperative mitomycin C in patients with one recurrence of pterygium. METHODS In 45 white patients with one recurrence of pterygium the 'bare sclera technique' was performed and a sterile sponge soaked in a 0.2 mg/ml (0.02%) mitomycin C solution was placed intraoperatively on the sclera for 3 minutes. The control group underwe...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and regional involvement of temporal pole signal abnormality (TPA) in patients with hippocampal sclerosis (HS) using fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery (FLAIR) MR imaging, and to correlate this feature with history. METHOD Coronal FLAIR images of the temporal pole were assessed in 120 patients with HS and in 30 normal subjects, to evaluate gray-white matt...

Introduction. In colon surgery, intestinal anastomotic leaks are the main contributor to postoperative mortality. The incidence of this complication in formation small-colonic anastomoses urgent surgery reaches 12% or more. It is required develop simple and reliable techniques suturing conditions peritonitis.The aim study was investigate morphological events occurring anastomosis formed using v...

h this paper we compare a number of structural testing strategies in terms of their relative coverage of the program’s structure and also in terms of the number of test cases needed to satisfy each strategy. We also discuss some of the deficiencies of such comparisons.

In this paper we define the rate distortion functions for the memoryless broadcast channels when side information about the source is provided at both the encoder and the decoder. Basic equations and the Variational equations are obtained under two different situations, the most general situation being the case of fidelity criterion acting along the main channel only whereas in the second situa...

The co-ingestion of protein, fat and fibre with carbohydrate reportedly affects postprandial glucose, insulin and incretin (glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)) responses. However, the effects of combination dishes with carbohydrate-rich foods at typically eaten amounts remain unclear. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effe...

We wanted to congratulate Ng et al.1 for describing an effective lenticular hydration technique for identification and extraction of a lenticular remnant after small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE). We also agree with their observation that prevention is the best solution for this condition and we would like to add here two techniques described by one of us (SJ) to facilitate easy extract...