Traumatic brachial plexus injury: a study of 510 surgical cases from multicenter services in Guangxi, China.

Background: Traumatic brachial plexus injuries are severe lesions, and the incidence of these injuries has been increasing in recent years.

Methods: The clinical data of 510 operated patients with brachial plexus injury recruited from 74 hospitals in Guangxi from 2004 to 2016 were retrospectively studied.

Results: Our study included 447 males and 63 females, with an average age of 29.

[Application of MR arthrography for diagnosis of femoral acetabular impingement syndrome].

Femora acetabular impingement (FAI) is thought as the major reason leds to hip osteoarthritis. FAI results to destruction of the arthrodial cartilage. Prognoses of hip osteoarthritis is affected by the degree of arthrodial cartilage destruction.

Methanol metabolism in the Asian corn borer, Ostrinia furnacalis (Guenée) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae).

Plants produce and release large quantities of methanol, especially when attacked by herbivores. It seems that the herbivores may suffer from methanol intoxication. Here we reported the tolerance to and the metabolism of methanol by Ostrinia furnacalis third-instar larvae.