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Effectiveness of four ultrasonographic parameters as predictors of difficult intubation in patients without anticipated difficult airway [PDF]
Background Predicting difficult intubation (DI) is a key challenge, as no single clinical predictor is sufficiently valid to predict the outcome. We evaluated the effectiveness of four upper airway ultrasonographic parameters in predicting DI.
Rishabh Agarwal+3 more
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Teratomas are the benign tumours, which may occur anywhere in the body. Development of these lesions in the oral cavity is extremely rare. In the oral cavity, they usually arise in the midline, in the floor of mouth. Infrequently, they may be seen in the tongue proper.
Sumiti Gupta+5 more
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Schwannoma of the tongue [PDF]
A healthy 17-year-old male presented with a 2-week history of pain in his left lateral tongue. Intraoral examination showed a well-circumscribed, elastic 14 × 9 mm nodule on the left lateral tongue with tenderness to palpation ([Figure 1A][1]).
Hitoshi Yoshimura, Keiichi Ohta
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Scripted bodies: reading the spectacle of Jacob wrestling the Angel [PDF]
This article argues that by reading the spectacle of Jacob’s struggle with the angel/man in Genesis 32:22-32, we might explore how the difficulties of representing human and divine male bodies are also bound up with certain scriptings of what these ...
Tongue, Samuel
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A pre-clinical experimental study is used to evaluate a new intralingual suture pattern, for treating farm animal’s tongue-wounds. Experimental section was performed on 36 fresh goat’s tongue-samples, to compare the new suture pattern with the ...
Aiman M. Seddek+2 more
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Ammonia-Net: A Multi-task Joint Learning Model for Multi-class Segmentation and Classification in Tooth-marked Tongue Diagnosis [PDF]
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the tooth marks on the tongue, stemming from prolonged dental pressure, serve as a crucial indicator for assessing qi (yang) deficiency, which is intrinsically linked to visceral health. Manual diagnosis of tooth-marked tongue solely relies on experience.
arxiv
An 86-year-old man presented with a painful lesion on his left tongue measuring 0.6 x 0.6mm (A). The lesion has been growing over the last 2 weeks. The patient did not remember any trauma except that his teeth did sometimes scratch his tongue. Histology form the excised lesion revealed a pressure ulcer (B).
Aryé Weinberg, Ralf Siegert
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Quantification and distribution of circumvallate lingual papillae in saanen goats
The present study aimed to describe the disposition and amount of circumvallate lingual papillae in Saanen goats using 26 goat tongues from the Laboratory of Animal Anatomy and Morphology of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, which were ...
Rogério Magno do Vale Barroso+7 more
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Objective To determine acid‐producing capacity and anti‐microbial activity of Lactobacillus species collected pretreatment and post treatment in head and neck cancer patients.
Matilda Rahne+2 more
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TongueSAM: An Universal Tongue Segmentation Model Based on SAM with Zero-Shot [PDF]
Tongue segmentation serves as the primary step in automated TCM tongue diagnosis, which plays a significant role in the diagnostic results. Currently, numerous deep learning based methods have achieved promising results. However, when confronted with tongue images that differ from the training set or possess challenging backgrounds, these methods ...
arxiv