Examination of Selective Low-pressure Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology Under Ultrasound Guidance.

Cytology by fine-needle cytology is indispensable for diagnosing head and neck tumor, especially for thyroid nodule. There are two methods of fine needle cytology; one of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC and another of fine-needle non-aspiration cytology (FNNAC). These previous procedures has each disadvantage such as the mixing of blood or low yield of cells.

Erratum to: Analysis of factors associated with maintenance discontinuation in implant patients.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s40064-015-1569-3.].

Analysis of factors associated with maintenance discontinuation in implant patients.

Maintenance following implant treatment is essential to ensure long-term stability. Accordingly, the objective of this study was to investigate the factors leading patients to discontinue maintenance following implant treatment. Among the 729 patients that underwent implantation at the Department of Oral Implantology, Osaka Dental University Hospital from January 2008 to December 2012, 41 patients were excluded from the study.

Effect of difference in occlusal contact area of mandibular free-end edentulous area implants on periodontal mechanosensitive threshold of adjacent premolars.

Implant treatment is believed to cause minimal invasion of remaining teeth. However, few studies have examined teeth adjacent to an implant region. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of occlusal contact size of implants on the periodontal mechanosensitive threshold of adjacent premolars.

[A Case of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia with Discrepancy in the Results of Anti-Platelet Factor 4/Heparin Antibodies between Latex-Particle-Enhanced Immunoturbidimetric Assay and Enzyme Immunoassay].

A female patient in her seventies with diabetes mellitus, hyper-lipidemia and mitral regurgitation was admitted because of the acute heart failure. She was treated with diuretics and vasodilators, however these were not effective. Therefore the CHDF using heparin was required for the patients.

Cloning of the gene coding for Staphylococcus intermedius exfoliative toxin and its expression in Escherichia coli.

An exfoliative toxin (SIET)-producing strain (D-52) of Staphylococcus intermedius derived from canine pyoderma did not possess large plasmids. Therefore, the gene coding for SIET was considered to be located on the chromosomal DNA. The SIET gene was cloned from the chromosomal DNA of S.

Isolation of exfoliative toxin from Staphylococcus intermedius and its local toxicity in dogs.

A rounding effect was demonstrated in cultured cells inoculated with the culture filtrates (CFs) of 60 strains of Staphylococcus intermedius derived from dogs affected with pyoderma. Exfoliative toxin (ET)-like toxin (ETLT) was isolated from the CF of S. intermedius strain D-52, which exhibited strong rounding activity and then was purified by gel filtration on a Sephadex G-75 column, and by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE).