A seven-year-old girl presented with a 4 cm x 2 cm lesion of the tongue which was located at the posterior one-third in the midline. The lesion was excised by plasma knife surgery. No complication, such as bleeding, shortness of breath or infection, occurred after the treatment. Plasma knife surgery is an acceptable choice for selected benign lingual vascular malformations.
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J Neurooncol
December 2024
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Purpose: To review applications of cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of leptomeningeal metastatic disease (LMD) among patients with metastatic solid tumors.
Methods: A narrative review identified original research related to CSF biomarkers among patients with metastatic solid tumors and LMD. Pre-clinical research (e.
Front Vet Sci
December 2024
Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
This study examined the effects of surgical castration and lidocaine-plus-meloxicam treatment on growth, physiology, behaviors, and leukocyte heat shock protein 90 (HSP 90) gene expression in Hanwoo (Korean cattle) bulls. Twenty Hanwoo bulls (body weight 248.8 ± 28.
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October 2024
Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR Herbivores, Saint-Genès-Champanelle, France.
EEG studies have suggested that cattle perceive pain when bled without stunning. The present study on bleeding without stunning, compared cows that had received a local anaesthetic on the site of the bleeding cut (Lurocaine; Luro cows) one hour before bleeding with a 35 cm knife, with cows that had not (saline: Placebo cows). Various physiological indicators potentially related to pain or stress were evaluated.
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December 2024
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The First Hospital of Anhui University of Science & Technology, Huainan, China.
Background: Endoscopic sphenopalatine artery cauterization (ESPAC) has become an important method to manage posterior epistaxis.
Aims/objectives: To investigate the application of plasma knife and lateral nasal wall incision in ESPAC in the treatment of posterior epistaxis.
Material And Methods: A retrospective study of 32 cases who underwent ESPAC for epistaxis was conducted.
J Orthop Surg Res
August 2024
Department of Orthopedics, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Xi'an, 710003, China.
Background: This study aimed to investigate the clinical efficacy of minimally invasive endoscopic treatment of children with congenital muscular torticollis (CMT).
Methods: In total, 72 children (41 male, 31 female) with CMT who underwent endoscopic surgery at the Department of Orthopedics, Xi'an Children's Hospital, between January 2021 and January 2023 were included. Their mean age was 54 ± 36.
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