Factors Associated With Injury to Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Thyroid Cancer: A Single-centre Study Using Translaryngeal Ultrasound.

Aims: Intraoperative injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) is a serious complication occurring more frequently in patients with thyroid cancer than in those with benign thyroid diseases. However, data on the risk factors for RLN injury among patients with thyroid cancer are scarce. Currently, RLN injury is diagnosed by laryngoscopy, but translaryngealultrasonography (TLUS), which is less invasive, appears to have a similar accuracy.

Application of Translaryngeal Ultrasound (TLUS) in Patients with Neck Surgery-A Single-Centre, Prospective Cohort Study on Technique Evaluation.

Purpose: The primary objective of this study was to assess the value of translaryngeal ultrasound (TLUS) in assessing vocal fold (VF) function in patients after thyroid, parathyroid and neck lymph node surgery.

Methods: A total of 219 patients that underwent 230 surgical procedures were enrolled in this prospective study. The study was conducted from October 2020 to October 2021.

The benefit of thresholding carbon layers in electron tomographic tilt series by intensity downshifting.

When performing electron tomography, tilt series of images are often acquired from samples that contain unwanted carbonaceous material, such as an embedding resin, a thin carbon support film or hydrocarbon contamination. The presence of such layers can introduce artefacts in reconstructions, obscuring features of interest. Here, we illustrate the benefit of preprocessing a high-angle annular dark-field tomographic tilt series by thresholding unwanted low-density materials using a simple intensity downshifting procedure.

Morphology and magnetic characterisation of aluminium substituted yttrium-iron garnet nanoparticles prepared using sol gel technique.

Aluminum substituted yttrium iron garnet nano particles with compositional variation of Y(3.0-x) A1(x)Fe5O12, where x = 0.0, 0.