Results 11 to 20 of about 4,326 (212)
Pediatric Rigid Bronchoscopy for Foreign Body Removal
Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, 2009 Rigid bronchoscopy is a procedure that is performed in order to directly visualize the upper and lower airway, and is carried out for either a diagnostic or therapeutic purpose.
Maria Rina T. Reyes-Quintos
doaj +1 more source
Metallic staples line mimicking a retained surgical sponge
Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology, 2010 The inadvertent loss of surgical sponges remains a dreadful hazard of surgery. We report the case of a patient with a medical history of myotonic dystrophy type 1 who had received a right upper lobectomy for the treatment of a stage IIA (pT1N1M0) well ...
L Cardinale +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Multiple Foreign Bodies in a 5-Year Old: Non-Accidental Trauma
The Annals of African Surgery, 2020 Foreign bodies, a significant proportion of which are a result of non-accidental trauma, are common but under-reported. Pediatric foreign body injuries can be inconsequential, severe or even fatal, and cause long-lasting morbidity and the need for ...
Mulewa Mulenga +2 more
doaj
Foreign Body in the Sphenoid Sinus
Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, 2014 Dear Editor, Foreign bodies in the paranasal sinuses are not so common, but are still possible. The structures most often involved are maxillary and the frontal sinuses.1 In our case, the sphenoid sinus, which is posterior and deep, was involved ...
Alvin B. Javierto +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Preventing Ocular Surface Foreign Body Complications: Enhancing Awareness and Precaution
Pakistan Journal of Medicine and DentistryBackground: Ocular surface foreign bodies are the second most common emergency condition in the ophthalmology department OPD, which can be easily prevented through proper precautionary measures.
Amber Khalid +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Extraction of large foreign bodies from the airway by gastrointestinal endoscopy
Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2023 Foreign body aspiration is a worldwide health problem that often results in life-threatening complications. Although flexible bronchoscopy is a safe procedure for removal of foreign bodies, it is usually unsuccessful in removing large foreign bodies from
Kuo-An Wu +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Epigenetic reprogramming of lineage switching in cancer
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Cancer cells rarely commit to a single identity. Epigenetic mechanisms and tumor microenvironment cues push epithelial cells toward flexible, hybrid states that can shift into mesenchymal, neuroendocrine, or stem‐like fates, driving metastasis, drug resistance, and tumor heterogeneity. Targeting the epigenetic regulators behind these transitions, using
Ezgi Boyvatlı +4 more
wiley +1 more source
‘Guide and Prejudice’— How Argonautes recognize targets across domains of life
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Argonaute proteins use short nucleic‐acid guides to locate and regulate specific targets across all domains of life. Despite striking diversity—from human gene silencing to bacterial immune defence—all Argonautes share a conserved three‐stage recognition logic: guide‐directed sampling, progressive target pairing with a conformational checkpoint and ...
Jack P. K. Bravo
wiley +1 more source
Related factors of outcomes of pharyngeal foreign bodies in children
SAGE Open Medicine, 2017 Objective: This study aimed to identify factors related to outcomes of the pharyngeal foreign bodies in children and to improve the management protocol of this disease.
Zhenghua Huang +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Pediatric Aerodigestive Foreign Bodies
MedEdPORTAL, 2014 Introduction The purpose of this case-based module is to teach health care professionals about the presentation, evaluation, and management of aerodigestive foreign bodies in children. Aerodigestive foreign bodies are common in children and can result in
Margaret Wolff +2 more
doaj +1 more source