Comparison Of Emergency And Elective Colorectal Cancer Surgery- A Single Center Experience.

Introduction: About one-third of colorectal cancer surgery are performed as urgent surgery. This retrospective study aims to compare urgent surgery with patients those performed elective colorectal cancer surgery. Matherials and Methods: One hundred and sixty patients data those performed colorectal cancer surgery were analysed retrospectively.

Salivary Gland Like Breast Carcinoma/Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma: Case Report.

Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the breast constitutes approximately 0.1% of all breast tumors. They can be located in the trachea, bronchus, cervix, lacrimal gland, and skin as well as the breast.

The effects of anxiety and depression symptoms on treatment adherence in COPD patients.

Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may cause some psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety, similar to other chronic diseases. Treatment adherence may be affected by worsening of cognitive functions. We aimed to show whether the symptoms of anxiety and depression affect treatment adherence by patients.

The validity and reliability of Turkish version of separation anxiety symptom inventory and adult separation anxiety questionnaire.

Aim: The aim of this study is to evaluate the validity and reliability of Separation Anxiety Symptoms Inventory (SASI) that assess childhood separation anxiety retrospectively and Adult Separation Anxiety Questionnaire (ASA).

Method: The study sample included a group of 410 participants comprised of 282 adult psychiatric outpatients with anxiety and/or major depressive disorders according to DSM-IV criteria and 128 nonpsychiatric control subjects. The presence of psychiatric disorders was determined by using the M.

The influence of health care reforms on work-related attitudes and anxieties of primary care physicians.

Background And Objective: Reforming primary healthcare services has been the core agenda of health policies of the developing countries in accordance with the recommendations of the World Health Organization. In Turkey, the Transformation in Health Project brings along many changes in all aspects of primary health care services, such as organization and financing of services and employment of healthcare workers. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of health care reforms on primary care physicians working in Izmir.

Anxiety sensitivity and its importance in psychiatric disorders.

Anxiety sensitivity refers to the extent of beliefs that anxiety symptoms or arousal can have harmful consequences. There is growing evidence for anxiety sensitivity as a risk factor for anxiety disorders. Anxiety sensitivity is elevated in panic disorder as well as other anxiety disorders.

Anxious personality is a risk factor for developing complex regional pain syndrome type I.

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of psychological factors in the development of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) type I following the fracture of the distal radius. Fifty patients (average age 57.70 ± 13.

[The validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the anxiety sensitivity index-3].

Objective: Anxiety sensitivity has been defined as an excessive fear from senses and symptoms of anxiety. The aim of the present study is to investigate the validity and reliability of Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 (ASI-3) and adapting it into Turkish.

Method: The study group consisted of 150 healthy individuals without any psychiatric disorder and 300 patients with an anxiety disorder and/or major depressive disorder according to DSM-IV criteria.

3D model retrieval using probability density-based shape descriptors.

We address content-based retrieval of complete 3D object models by a probabilistic generative description of local shape properties. The proposed shape description framework characterizes a 3D object with sampled multivariate probability density functions of its local surface features. This density-based descriptor can be efficiently computed via kernel density estimation (KDE) coupled with fast Gauss transform.

Analysis of head gesture and prosody patterns for prosody-driven head-gesture animation.

We propose a new two-stage framework for joint analysis of head gesture and speech prosody patterns of a speaker towards automatic realistic synthesis of head gestures from speech prosody. In the first stage analysis, we perform Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based unsupervised temporal segmentation of head gesture and speech prosody features separately to determine elementary head gesture and speech prosody patterns, respectively, for a particular speaker. In the second stage, joint analysis of correlations between these elementary head gesture and prosody patterns is performed using Multi-Stream HMMs to determine an audio-visual mapping model.

Discriminative analysis of lip motion features for speaker identification and speech-reading.

There have been several studies that jointly use audio, lip intensity, and lip geometry information for speaker identification and speech-reading applications. This paper proposes using explicit lip motion information, instead of or in addition to lip intensity and/or geometry information, for speaker identification and speech-reading within a unified feature selection and discrimination analysis framework, and addresses two important issues: 1) Is using explicit lip motion information useful, and, 2) if so, what are the best lip motion features for these two applications? The best lip motion features for speaker identification are considered to be those that result in the highest discrimination of individual speakers in a population, whereas for speech-reading, the best features are those providing the highest phoneme/word/phrase recognition rate. Several lip motion feature candidates have been considered including dense motion features within a bounding box about the lip, lip contour motion features, and combination of these with lip shape features.

Tc-99m HMPAO brain perfusion SPECT in drug-free obsessive-compulsive patients without depression.

The aim of this study was to confirm prior results of brain-imaging studies on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in a sample of Turkish patients, as a cross-cultural study. Tc-99m HMPAO brain perfusion SPECT imaging was performed in nine drug-free OCD patients without depression and six controls. The patients' Hamilton Depression Rating Scale scores were <16.

Technetium-99m DTPA inhalation scintigraphy in patients treated with fluoxetine and maprotiline: preliminary results.

Drug-metabolising enzymatic activities have been detected in tracheobronchiolar, bronchiolar and alveolar regions in the lungs. Induction of phospholipidosis by amine drugs such as clorphentermine has also been shown. This study aimed to investigate the effect of fluoxetine and maprotiline, which contain amine groups in their structure, on pulmonary epithelial membrane permeability.

Multidirectional and multiscale edge detection via M-band wavelet transform.

In this correspondence, the problem of directional and multiscale edge detection is considered. Orthogonal and linear-phase M-band wavelet transform is used to decompose the image into MxM channels. These channels are then combined such that each combination, which we refer to as decomposition filter, results in zero-crossings at the locations of edges corresponding to different directions and resolutions, and inherently performs regularization against noise.

Causal and semicausal AR image model identification using the EM algorithm.

The method presented by T. Katayama and T. Hirai (1990), who considered the problem of semicausal autoregressive (AR) parameter identification for images degraded by observation noise, is extended.