(1) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
(2) But, we found that the Roux-Y type bypass operation using the pedicled jejumun was a safe and uninvasive procedure for a patient with high risk.
(3) Previous work has shown that corticocancellous bone chips placed in a titanium chamber with an arteriovenous vascular pedicle will result in a pre-formed vascularized bone graft.
(4) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
(5) The labia minora as a pedicle graft avoids the problems encountered by conventional methods.
(6) The general tendency of gradual CBF reduction from the pedicle to the distal end of all the flaps was observed.
(7) Congenital defect of a cervical pedicle produces a rare clinical syndrome with a characteristic X-ray picture associated with vague clinical signs often accentuated after trauma.
(8) The difference from the Hughes flap is that the blood supply is maintained through two tubed pedicles of conjunctiva and Muller's muscle, rather than an apron of conjunctiva.
(9) The pedicle screw systems were always the most rigid.
(10) The ability to transfer comparable local skin can be enhanced by the use of the subcutaneous island pedicle flap.
(11) Anterior transposition of the cervical pedicles and fixation of the myometrium to the anterior vagina ensure that the fitting is solid and in the correct direction.
(12) Within a few weeks sufficient neovascularisation developed to support free transfer of the flaps based on the implanted vein graft pedicle.
(13) Eleven cases are reported of island flaps containing only venous pedicles.
(14) While our experience with this technique is limited, it would appear that the neuromuscular pedicle transfer may play a useful adjunctive role in reanimation of the face in selective cases of facial paralysis.
(15) The injured vertebra is grafted through the pedicle, giving security against late collapse after device removal.
(16) When used as a vascular island flap, either a distal pedicle or a proximal pedicle can be used.
(17) A Spinal Pedicle Finder (S.P.F) has been designed for transpedicular screws and a prototype has been completed.
(18) Biopsy specimens from 38 "de-epithelized" dermal pedicles were examined microscopically.
(19) Five male cadavers were used to evaluate anatomically structures at risk using sacral pedicle screw fixation.
(20) Accordingly, in this group, thoracic tracheal defects were reconstructed by this combined Marlex mesh and pedicled muscle flap.
Tumour
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(1) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
(2) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(3) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(4) Some S-100 reactive cells previously interpreted as tumour cells were refound in a few tumours.
(5) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
(6) Ten out of 12 (83%) tumours which had c-erbB-2 and c-erbA co-amplification had metastasised to axillary lymph nodes (P less than 0.006).
(7) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
(8) These are rare tumours comparable to abdominal desmoid tumours.
(9) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
(10) Tumour necrosis factor (TNF), a polypeptide produced by mononuclear phagocytes, has been implicated as an important mediator of inflammatory processes and of clinical manifestations in acute infectious diseases.
(11) Expression of AR was compared with that of ER and PR as well as with tumour grade and age.
(12) The risk of recurrence and progression in 170 patients presenting with pTa urothelial tumours of the bladder has been estimated so that follow-up can be rationalised.
(13) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
(14) Finally, 10 patients had an intra- and extrasellar tumour (group III).
(15) Four patients with tumours larger than 2 cm died from metastatic carcinoid.
(16) We conclude that 1H MRS has a clear role in the diagnosis and biochemical assessment of intracranial tumours and in the evaluation and monitoring of therapy.
(17) The independent but combined use of both antigens, appreciably raises the diagnostic success percentage with regard to that obtained when only one tumour marker was used.
(18) We describe 10 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: two had protein S deficiency, one had protein C deficiency, one was in early pregnancy, and there was a single case of each of the following: dural arteriovenous malformation, intracerebral arteriovenous malformation, bilateral glomus tumours, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(19) All patients in Stages I and II (5 out of 26) who developed metastases had poorly differentiated (histological Type III) tumours.
(20) Three angiographic observations showing partial mesenteric vascularisation of renal tumours were made.