The Role of Layer-Controlled Graphene for Tunable Microwave Heating and Its Applications to the Synthesis of Inorganic Thin Films.

In this paper, we present the first method for precisely controlling the heat generated by microwave heating by tuning the number of graphene layers grown by chemical vapor deposition. The conductivity of the graphene increases linearly with the number of graphene layers, indicating that Joule heating plays a primary role in the temperature control of the graphene layer. In this method, we successfully synthesize TiO2 and MoS2 thin films, which do not interact well with microwaves, on a layer-controlled graphene substrate for a very short time (3 min) through microwave heating.

Computed tomography fluoroscopy-guided selective nerve root block for acute cervical disc herniation.

Objective: To analyze the clinical outcomes of computed tomography (CT) fluoroscopy-guided selective nerve root block (SNRB) for severe arm pain caused by acute cervical disc herniation.

Methods: The authors analyzed the data obtained from 25 consecutive patients who underwent CT fluoroscopy-guided SNRB for severe arm pain, i.e.

Effects of electroacupuncture on cold allodynia in a rat model of neuropathic pain: mediation by spinal adrenergic and serotonergic receptors.

The present study was performed to examine the effects of electroacupuncture (EA) on cold allodynia and its mechanisms related to the spinal adrenergic and serotonergic systems in a rat model of neuropathic pain. For the neuropathic surgery, the right superior caudal trunk was resected at the level between S1 and S2 spinal nerves innervating the tail. Two weeks after the nerve injury, EA stimulation (2 or 100 Hz) was delivered to Zusanli (ST36) for 30 min.

Non-contiguous spinal injury in cervical spinal trauma: evaluation with cervical spine MRI.

Objective: We wished to evaluate the incidence of non-contiguous spinal injury in the cervicothoracic junction (CTJ) or the upper thoracic spines on cervical spinal MR images in the patients with cervical spinal injuries.

Materials And Methods: Seventy-five cervical spine MR imagings for acute cervical spinal injury were retrospectively reviewed (58 men and 17 women, mean age: 35.3, range: 18 81 years).

Renal cell carcinoma: analysis of postoperative recurrence patterns.

Purpose: To retrospectively analyze the recurrence patterns of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and the factors affecting tumor recurrence.

Materials And Methods: The institutional review board approved this study; patient informed consent was not required. There were 162 men (mean age, 54 years +/- 13 [standard deviation]) and 32 women (mean age, 56 years +/- 11) who had undergone complete surgical resection of RCC.

CT angiography for evaluation of living renal donors: comparison of four reconstruction methods.

Objective: We sought to compare various reconstruction methods for CT angiographic images in evaluating living renal donors.

Materials And Methods: In 76 patients who underwent donor nephrectomy, vascular phase CT data were obtained using an MDCT scanner (detector array, 1.25 mm x 4; beam pitch, 1.

MRI of small cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix with pathologic correlation.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the MRI features of small cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix and to correlate those features with pathologic findings.

Conclusion: Small cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix can be characterized by frequent parametrial invasion and extensive lymphadenopathy, although the tumor morphology seems to be nonspecific on MRI.

Intra-articular elastofibroma of the shoulder joint.

A 19-year-old man presented with an elastofibroma in his left shoulder joint. The patient had had limitation of motion in his left arm for 3 years, especially when rotating internally. Radiography of his left shoulder showed bone erosion in the neck of the humerus.