Three-dimensional white light camera to aid lipoabdominoplasty: a pilot project.

Background: Historically, torso obesity has been difficult to quantify. Digital technology has recently encroached into body contouring surgery but has not been developed by surgeons to aid with their anatomical mandates.

Methods: For 3 years, the authors tested a three-dimensional digital body camera that used nonintrusive white light phase profilometry to produce a "point cloud" image of the subject.

Does otitis media in early childhood affect reading performance in later school years?

Objective: To evaluate reading performance in children with recurrent otitis media during childhood once middle-ear diseases have resolved and the children grew older.

Study Design And Setting: Seventy-five children with middle-ear problems during childhood and poor reading performance in first grades and 60 healthy controls free of middle ear diseases were enrolled in the study. All children underwent an otologic and audiologic evaluation followed by reading tests.

Reading performance in children with otitis media.

Objective: To examine whether middle ear diseases and the associated hearing loss in early childhood affect reading performance later at school.

Study Design And Setting: One hundred and sixty children, 6.5 to 8 years of age, were enrolled in this study: 80 children with a history of recurrent infections and/or prolonged periods of effusions of the middle ear before the age of 5 years, and 80 healthy children without any history of middle ear disease.