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Background Numerous surgeries have been described for osteoarthritis of the trapeziometacarpal (TMC) joint. We describe the senior author's experience with his technique of concurrent arthroplasty of the TMC joint, and carpal tunnel release (CTR) via a ...
Chung Ming Chan +2 more
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An Unusual Case of Volar Dislocation of Thumb Metacarpophalangeal Joint
Thumb metacarpophalangeal joint dislocation is an uncommon injury. Most of the dislocations are dorsal, and volar dislocation is rare. Only a total of 18 cases of volar dislocation of thumb metacarpophalangeal joint are published in English and other ...
Ho-Yin Man, Ka-Chun Ip, Kin-Bong Lee
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Nonlinear Effects in Easement Valuation [PDF]
Rules of thumb have been developed to assist appraisers in dealing with the uncertainties that abound when easement values must be estimated. An economic analysis of one popular rule-of-thumb technique, based on a fixed percentage of the value of a ...
Henry J. Munneke, Joseph W. Trefzger
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Interaction Between Trade and Competition: Why a Multilateral Approach for the United States? [PDF]
This thesis consists of two essays and an introduction. The main theme is technological knowledge that is not based on the natural sciences.The first essay is about rules of thumb, which are simple instructions, used to guide actions toward a specific ...
Chang, Seung Wha
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Paediatric Dupuytren's disease
Dupuytren's disease of the hand has only been rarely reported in children and is rarer still in infants. Only a few histologically confirmed diagnoses are found in literature.
Pradeoth Mukundan Korambayil +1 more
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Bias in nearest-neighbor hazard estimation [PDF]
In nonparametric curve estimation, the smoothing parameter is critical for performance. In order to estimate the hazard rate, we compare nearest neighbor selectors that minimize the quadratic, the Kullback-Leibler, and the uniform loss.
Dette, Holger, Weißbach, Rafael
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Radiation-induced thumbs carcinoma due to practicing dental X-ray
Dealing with diagnostic X-ray radiation may result in serious health problems, unless protection guidelines are followed. This became prevalent immediately a decade following the invention of X-ray radiation, where it had not been known that the ...
Esam S Halboub +3 more
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Results of the second toe autotransplantation for thumb reconstruction
Defects of the thumb negatively impact physical and mental health, lead to depression, inferiority complex and hopelessness in the future. The aim of the study was to explore long-term results of thumb reconstruction using autologous transplantation of ...
Bulat Sh. Minasov +6 more
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A Rule of Thumb Derivation of Born-Infeld Action for D-branes [PDF]
A rule of thumb derivation of the Dirac-Born-Infeld action for D-branes is studied \`a la Fradkin and Tseytlin, by simply integrating out of the superstring coordinates in a narrow strip attached to the D-branes.
Endo, Rika +3 more
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