Fibres used in the construction of car seats--an assessment of evidential value.

The evidential significance of car seat fibres has been investigated. Thirty six samples of car seat fabric were examined and the fibres catalogued according to their morphology and characteristics. The majority of car seat fibres were black or grey thick polyester fibres that were either dyed or pigmented.

Hexagons become the secondary pattern if symmetry is broken.

Pattern formation on the free surface of a magnetic fluid subjected to a magnetic field is investigated experimentally. By tilting the magnetic field, the symmetry can be broken in a controllable manner. When increasing the amplitude of the tilted field, the flat surface gives way to liquid ridges.

[Delirium increases morbidity and length of stay after vascular surgery operations. Results of a prospective study].

Objective: We intended to analyze the influence of postoperative delirium on postoperative morbidity and length of hospital stay.

Patients And Method: 153 patients undergoing elective arterial surgery were studied prospectively. Patients were examined postoperatively by a psychiatrist daily from days 1 to 7.

Predicting delirium after vascular surgery: a model based on pre- and intraoperative data.

Objective: The aim of the study was to determine pre- and intraoperative risk factors for the development of postoperative delirium among patients undergoing aortic, carotid, and peripheral vascular surgery to predict the risk for postoperative delirium.

Summary Background Data: Although postoperative delirium after vascular surgery is a frequent complication and is associated with the need for more inpatient hospital care and longer length of hospital stay, little is known about risk factors for delirium in patients undergoing vascular surgery.

Methods: Pre-, intra-, and postoperative data were prospectively collected, including the first 7 postoperative days with daily follow-up by a surgeon and a psychiatrist of 153 patients undergoing elective vascular surgery.

Low symmetry patterns on magnetic fluids.

The pattern formation on the free surface of a magnetic fluid subjected simultaneously to a vertical and a horizontal magnetic field is investigated theoretically. In this anisotropic system planforms less symmetric then squares and hexagons arise. The relative stability of parallel ridges and asymmetric patterns, periodic on a rectangular or a rhombic lattice, is studied using a perturbative energy minimization procedure.

Risk factors for postoperative delirium in vascular surgery.

The aim of this study was to identify psychiatric and somatic risk factors associated with the development, severity and duration of postoperative delirium after vascular surgery. Forty-seven patients underwent aortic, carotid artery and peripheral artery surgery. Both, surgeon and psychiatrist, monitored patients preoperatively with daily follow up.

Pattern and wave number selection in magnetic fluids.

The formation of patterns of peaks on the free surface of a magnetic fluid subject to a magnetic field normal to the undisturbed interface is investigated theoretically. The relative stability of ridge, square, and hexagon planforms is studied using a perturbative energy minimization procedure. Extending previous studies the finite depth of the fluid layer is taken into account.

[Delirium after vascular surgery interventions. Intermediate-term results of a prospective study].

Introduction: Postoperative delirium is a common psychic disturbance occurring acutely after various surgical procedures and typically presenting with a fluctuating course. These patients' recovery takes longer. In this study we analyze the incidence of postoperative delirium in patients undergoing vascular surgery and try to identify risk factors for its development.

[Imaging tumor extension of renal cell carcinomas with magnetic resonance tomography. Improved tumor-tissue contrast with Gd-DTPA-assisted spin-echo sequences and simultaneous fat suppression].

Purpose: To evaluate the use of contrast-enhanced T1-weighted images with fat suppression (T1FS) to improve the contrast-to-noise ratio of renal cancer and renal parenchyma as well as perirenal fat.

Methods: 25 patients with histologically proven unilateral renal cancer after nephrectomy were examined before surgery. In addition to plane and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted as well as T2-weighted spin-echo images, all patients had T1 FS immediately after administration of Gd-DTPA in two planes.

[Determining the depth of infiltration in urinary bladder carcinoma with contrast medium enhanced dynamic magnetic resonance tomography. With reference to postoperative findings and inflammation].

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging for the staging of urothelial bladder carcinoma and to compare it with plain and contrast-enhanced spin-echo MRI.

Methods: Pre-operative MRI was carried out in 62 patients. Post-operative histological examination confirmed bladder carcinoma in 50/62 patients.

Quality of semen after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for lower urethral stones.

Purpose: We investigated whether extracorporeal shock lithotripsy (ESWL) of stones in the distal ureter can cause decreased in male fertility.

Materials And Methods: In vivo and in vitro examinations were performed to clarify possible changes in semen after ESWL of lower urethral stones. For the in vivo examination semen from 10 patients was examined on the day before and 3 days after ESWL.

Use of endorectal surface coil magnetic resonance imaging for diagnosis of a multicystic seminal vesicle with ipsilateral renal agenesis.

We report a symptomatic multicystic seminal vesicle with ipsilateral renal agenesis in a 37-year-old man. Preoperatively the diagnosis could be suggested by different imaging modalities, including endorectal surface coil magnetic resonance imaging. To our knowledge, we present the 1st case of seminal vesicle cyst to be evaluated by magnetic resonance imaging using a rectal coil.

[MR urography with the T2-weighted turbo-spin-echo sequence].

Tumor-induced dilatation of the urinary tract is difficult to diagnose in the distal part of the ureter, including the stenosis, by ultrasound and X-ray. Often on account of renal insufficiency and allergy, i.v.

[Osteoplastic bone metastases in prostatic carcinoma: magnetic resonance tomography and bone marrow scintigraphy].

MRI of the vertebral column was performed in 28 patients with histologically confirmed prostate carcinoma. Besides routine spin-echo sequences all patients were examined with gradient-echo sequences using the chemical shift mode. In addition, in all patients bone marrow scintigraphy (BMS) was performed, and all results were compared with routine bone scan (BS).

Effect of different local and systemic therapy upon urinary bladder cytology.

1,900 cytological analyses of urine and bladder washings were made in 127 patients with urothelial bladder carcinomas before, during and after therapy. Following transurethral resection, all patients were treated by intravesical instillation of mitomycin C or thiotepa. Because of a locally advanced bladder carcinoma, 26 patients who were not candidates for radical cystectomy were given an integrated treatment of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

[Bladder tumors--Magnevist-assisted magnetic resonance tomography].

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, Magnetom 0.5 Tesla) using a high-resolution surface coil was performed on 10 healthy volunteers, 16 patients with bladder tumours, 2 patients with cystitis and 15 patients with bladder tumours and cystitis. Lesion delineation versus urine, bladder wall and surrounding organs was evaluated in plain and contrast-enhanced (IV Magnevist, 0.

[Primary hyperparathyroidism: studies of 4,000 urinary calculi patients treated with extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy].

The incidence of primary hyperparathyroidism was determined in 4000 renal stone formers treated by ESWL at our institution from 1983 to 1990. Based on repeated measurements of serum calcium and serum parathyroid hormone an incidence of 2.8% was found.

[Early results following radical prostatectomy in patients with capsule invasion, seminal vesicle infiltration and micrometastases].

One hundred thirty-three patients with prostatic carcinoma underwent bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy and radical retropubic prostatectomy between 1975 and 1988. Patients who had a localized prostatic carcinoma (less than or equal to T2b N0 M0 or less than or equal to B 2) and a small number (n = 10) with limited T3 carcinoma were considered for surgical therapy on the basis of a digital prostatic examination. Histological examination revealed locally advanced prostatic carcinoma in 89 patients with capsular infiltration or perforation and seminal vesicle involvement.

Unilateral adrenal hemorrhage in forty-five-year-old woman.

We herein describe a case of adrenal hemorrhage on the right side in a forty-five-year-old woman. Her medical history did not show any evidence of an acute bleeding. The hematoma was removed and adrenalectomy performed.

X-ray microanalysis--a method for determination of elements in bladder biopsies.

Chemical elements in biopsies of normal human urothelium and transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) are determined by X-ray microanalysis in combination with scanning electron microscopy. The methodology presented is intended to be used in subsequent studies to compare data of normal urothelium and TCC of different stage and grade.

Differential diagnosis and therapy of rare testicular tumors.

The origin, differential diagnosis and therapy of rare testicular tumors are reviewed. 5% of all testicular tumors are rare tumors. Most of these rare tumors are of non-germ cell origin.