Risk Factors of Peritoneal Recurrence and Outcome of Resected Peritoneal Recurrence After Liver Resection in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Review of 1222 Cases of Hepatectomy in a Tertiary Institution

10.1245/s10434-012-2260-3Annals of Surgical Oncology1972246-225

Peripheral Auditory Assessment in Minor Head Injury: A Prospective Study in Tertiary Hospital

Hearing loss is a common problem encountered in ENT practice. Hearing loss following head injury is a major medical problem in both adults and children, which may go unnoticed when it does not affect speech frequencies. Sensorineural hearing loss at high frequencies is a common finding in minor head injury. Patients with history suggestive of mild head injury (MHI) according to Glasgow coma scale score were evaluated. The most common cause of MHI was road traffic accidents involving two wheeler riders without helmets. Higher the frequencies affected, and severe the hearing loss, poorer was the prognosis. Distortion product oto-acoustic emissions assessment at 3000 and 4000 Hz were found to be significant and has a higher predictive value in assessing outer hair cell damage

Kinetic restriction of simple gases in porous carbons: Transition-state theory study

The separation of simple gases such as N-2, Ar, CO2, and CH4 is an industrially important problem, particularly for the mitigation of greenhouse emissions. Furthermore, these gases are widely accepted as standard probing gases for the characterization of the microstructure of porous solids. However, a consistent set of microstructural parameters of a microporous solid deter-mined from the use of adsorption measurements of these different gases is not always achieved because of differences in their pore accessibility. This is a long-standing and poorly understood problem. Here, we present the calculated results of the crossing time of N-2, Ar, CO2, and CH4 between two neighboring cages through a constricted window in a realistic structural model of saccharose char, generated from hybrid reverse Monte Carlo (HRMC) simulation (Nguyen, T. X.; Bhatia, S. K.; Jain, S. K.; Gubbins, K. E. Mol. Simul. 2006,32,567-577) using transition state theory (TST), as described in our recent work (Nguyen, T. X.; Bhatia, S. K. J. Phys. Chem. 2007, 111, 2212-2222). The striking feature in these results is that whereas very fast diffusion of carbon dioxide within the temperature range of 273-343 K, with crossing time on the molecular dynamics scale (10(-4)-10(-6) S), leads to instantaneous equilibrium and no hysteresis on the experimental time scale, slower diffusion of Ar and N-2 at the low temperature of analysis indicates an accessibility problem. These results rationalize the experimental results of hysteresis for N-2 at 77 K and At at 87 K but not for CO2 at 273 K in Takeda 3 angstrom carbon molecular sieves. Furthermore, it is shown that CH4 diffusion through narrow pore mouths can be hindered even at ambient temperature. Finally, we show that the use of pore size and wall thickness distributions extracted from the adsorption of At at 87 K using the finite wall thickness (FWT) model (Nguyen, T. X.; Bhatia, S. K. Langmuir 2004,20,3532-3535 and Nguyen, T. X.; Bhatia, S. K. J. Phys. Chem. B 2004, 108, 14032-14042) provides the correct prediction of experimental CO2 adsorption in BPL and PCB carbons whereas that from N-2 at 77 K gives a significant underprediction for both CO2 and CH4 in the BPL carbon. These trends are in excellent agreement with those predicted using the calculated crossing times