Comparison Of Axillary Drain Output In Conventional And Advanced Compressive Energy Source Like Ultrasonic Scalpel And Ligasure Dissection Of Axilla In Breast Cancer Surgery.

Background: Breast cancer is the most common malignancy worldwide. Surgical treatment of axilla is a part of treatment of locally advanced breast cancer. Conventional knot tying plus electrocautery and advanced compressive energy sources are used to reduce the continued axillary serous fluid discharge when drains are in place and seroma formation afterwards.

Retinoblastoma presenting as total hyphema: Three year follow-up.

Retinoblastoma very rarely presents as total hyphema. Our patient presented at an early age of 7 months. Follow-up of 3 years shows that unilateral group E retinoblastoma was treated successfully with enucleation and adjuvant chemotherapy.

On some properties of the generalized Mittag-Leffler function.

Unlabelled: This paper deals with the study of a generalized function of Mittag-Leffler type. Various properties including usual differentiation and integration, Euler(Beta) transforms, Laplace transforms, Whittaker transforms, generalized hypergeometric series form with their several special cases are obtained and relationship with Wright hypergeometric function and Laguerre polynomials is also established.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 33C45, 47G20, 26A33.

Low-level quinolone-resistance in multi-drug resistant typhoid.

Objective: To find out the frequency of low-level quinolone-resistance in Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) typhoid using nalidixic acid screening disc.

Study Design: Descriptive study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, from January 2005 to December 2005.

Peripheral blood-based polymerase chain reaction in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Background: The rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases, particularly those that represent a public health problem, like tuberculosis, is a challenging problem. By using nucleic acid amplification techniques like PCR, one may be able to diagnose, the disease on the day of arrival of specimen in the laboratory. For diagnosis of tuberculosis by direct methods like PCR, specimens from site of infection are required.

Role of Malassezia yeast (Pityrosporum) in seborrhoeic dermatitis (SD).

Objective: The objective of this study was to find out the prevalence of Pityrosporum species in the patients with seborrheic dermatitis (SD) and compare the colonization rate with normal healthy individuals.

Design: Comparative study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Dermatology Department, Military Hospital and Department of Microbiology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi from 01 March 1996 to 28 February 1997.