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A simple and cheap system to speed up and to control the tumescent technique procedure: the Tedde's system.
No full textAbstract. – We have devised a low cost
system to quickly infiltrate tumescent solution:
we call it the “Tedde’s system”. This low-cost
system offers an improvement in quality and
quantity of the infiltration because all the procedure
depends on the operators, reducing also
the time of the infiltration and consequently
of the whole surgical procedure. Moreover, this
system can be applied to other surgical procedure
that requires large infiltration volumes
First report of digital skin ulcer with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infection in an immunocompetent patient.
No full textAbstract. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an aerobic
Gram-negative bacillus that usually causes infection in
immunocompromised patients. We present the case of an
immunocompetent patient with a distal necrosis of the
second and third fingers of the right hand caused by S.
maltophilia infection. The patient underwent antibiotic
therapy with trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole on the basis
of the susceptibility tests and he underwent surgical
debridement of the necrotic tissues, including of the distal
phalanx bone, and reconstruction with Atasoy flap.
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is emerging as an important
cause of skin infection in immunoresponsive patients. Several
community-acquired infections have been reported, however,
as far as we are aware, our case represents the first report of
a digital wound of intact skin caused by community-acquired
S. maltophilia infection in an immunocompetent patient
First Report of Digital Skin Ulcer with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Infection in an Immunocompetent Patient
No full textAbstract. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an aerobic
Gram-negative bacillus that usually causes infection in
immunocompromised patients. We present the case of an
immunocompetent patient with a distal necrosis of the
second and third fingers of the right hand caused by S.
maltophilia infection. The patient underwent antibiotic
therapy with trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole on the basis
of the susceptibility tests and he underwent surgical
debridement of the necrotic tissues, including of the distal
phalanx bone, and reconstruction with Atasoy flap.
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is emerging as an important
cause of skin infection in immunoresponsive patients. Several
community-acquired infections have been reported, however,
as far as we are aware, our case represents the first report of
a digital wound of intact skin caused by community-acquired
S. maltophilia infection in an immunocompetent patient.Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an aerobic Gram-negative bacillus that usually causes infection in immunocompromised patients. We present the case of an immunocompetent patient with a distal necrosis of the second and third fingers of the right hand caused by S. maltophilia infection. The patient underwent antibiotic therapy with trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole on the basis of the susceptibility tests and underwent surgical debridement of the necrotic tissues, including of the distal phalanx bone, and further reconstruction with Atasoy flap. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is emerging as an important cause of skin infection in immunoresponsive patients. Several community-acquired infections have been reported, however, as far as we are aware of, our case represents the first report of a digital wound of intact skin caused by community-acquired S. maltophilia infection in an immunocompetent patien
Basal cell carcinoma of the nipple-areola complex: report of a case and literature review
No full textBasal cell carcinoma of the nipple areola complex in female patients is an extremely rare tumor with a malignant clinical behavior.
The Authors present the case of a Basal cell carcinoma of the nipple areola complex in a Caucasian woman, evaluated by clinical and histological findings. Our clinical experience suggests that Basal cell carcinoma of the nipple areola complex has a local aggressive behavior with an higher metastatic potentiality compared to basal cell carcinoma of common sites. However, an accurate tissue sparing excision may be successful in the long term
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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