Outcome of gunshot abdominal injuries [PDF]
Aim: To describe prevalence, management and factors determining outcomes in patients presenting with gunshot abdominal injuries.Method: We retrospectively analysed all cases of gunshot to the abdomen received at Kenyatta National Hospital from October ...
Badawy, Maryam+10 more
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Incidence of seed migration to the chest, abdomen, and pelvis after transperineal interstitial prostate brachytherapy with loose 125I seeds [PDF]
Background The aim was to determine the incidence of seed migration not only to the chest, but also to the abdomen and pelvis after transperineal interstitial prostate brachytherapy with loose 125I seeds.
A Sugawara+47 more
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The Fighter Problem: Optimal Allocation of a Discrete Commodity [PDF]
The Fighter problem with discrete ammunition is studied. An aircraft (fighter) equipped with $n$ anti-aircraft missiles is intercepted by enemy airplanes, the appearance of which follows a homogeneous Poisson process with known intensity. If $j$ of the $n$ missiles are spent at an encounter they destroy an enemy plane with probability $a(j)$, where $a ...
arxiv
Taking care in the air: jet air travel and passenger health, a study of British Overseas Airways Corporation (1940-1974) [PDF]
This paper explores an aspect of medical history that has been overlooked in existing academic studies of commercial air travel, and advances a new historiography of airline passenger health and commercial aviation medicine.
Adam Warren (1255863)+2 more
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Automatic Detection of Pulmonary Embolism using Computational Intelligence [PDF]
This article describes the implementation of a system designed to automatically detect the presence of pulmonary embolism in lung scans. These images are firstly segmented, before alignment and feature extraction using PCA. The neural network was trained using the Hybrid Monte Carlo method, resulting in a committee of 250 neural networks and good ...
arxiv
Successful surgical treatment of a patient with combined gunshot shrapnel injuries in the heart and brain complicated by middle cerebral artery pseudoaneurysm [PDF]
Successful step-by-step treatment of a combined gunshot shrapnel injury of the brain, damaging the left middle cerebral artery (MCA) branches, and penetrating myocardium injury is discussed. Open brain and heart surgeries were performed.
Cherednychenko, Yuri+6 more
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Predisposing factors of brain abscess in Ardabil [PDF]
Background: Brain abscess is a focal intracerebral infection, which begins as a localized area of cerebritis and develops into a collection of pus surrounded by a well-vascularized capsule. In the present study, we studied all patients with brain abscess
بالاخانی, شهریار+4 more
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Air rifle wound to the chest and pellet embolism to the intracranial internal carotid artery with a middle cerebral artery territory infarct: A case report and review of literature. [PDF]
Gomez D+3 more
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Missile fragment embolization and retroperitoneal iliac vein removal. [PDF]
Patel PJ+4 more
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