Interest of a new large diffusive gradients in thin films (L-DGT) for organic compounds monitoring: On-field comparison with conventional passive samplers.

In this work, the performances of a Large Diffusive Gradients in Thin films (L-DGT, i.e., a DGT based on a Chemcatcher® holder with a 5-fold larger sampling area) were compared on-field with the conventional DGT and the Polar Organic Chemical Integrative Sampler (POCIS) for the monitoring of a wide range of organic contaminants (i.

Diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT): A suitable tool for metals/metalloids monitoring in continental waterbodies at the large network scale.

The contribution of Diffusive Gradients in Thin films (DGT) passive sampling to continental water quality monitoring was assessed in a real measurement network (6 sampling campaigns, 17 stations). Ten metals/metalloids (Al, Zn, Ni, Cd, Cu, Pb, Cr, As, Se and Sb) were studied using the control laboratory's working conditions with grab and DGT passive sampling. The DGT field deployments were robust, with a 3% sampler loss rate and a <65% average relative deviation between duplicates.

[Supratentorial glioblastoma in adults. Therapeutic results].

This retrospective study concerns 55 adult patients with supratentorial glioblastoma. The tumours were treated by complete or partial surgical excision whenever possible (31 cases), radiotherapy (22 cases) in doses of 60 Gy over 6 to 7 weeks (40 Gy with telecobalt and 20 Gy with superimposed electrons) and multiple chemotherapy (10 cases) with VM26 and CCNU or BCNU. Although the number of patients in some categories was too small for statistical evaluation, the results obtained were in agreement with those found in the literature and indicative of what can be expected.

[Loss of consciousness during benign intracranial hypertension. Correlations between cerebrospinal fluid pressure and the electroencephalogram].

A patient with benign intracranial hypertension developed paroxysmal attacks of falling due to loss of consciousness. Prolonged simultaneous recordings of CSF pressure, through a lumbar needle, and of EEG showed that these episodes resulted from bouts of elevation of CSF pressure (120 mm Hg systolic pressure). The pathophysiology of the increased pressure waves, described as Lundberg 's A waves or plateau waves, is discussed.