INTRODUCTION: Shunt catheters within the peritoneal cavity have migrated through and perforated almost all the intra-abdominal hollow viscera. An umbilical cerebrospinal fluid fistula following a ventriculoperitoneal shunt ...

A new coumarin derived polymer poly(3-acetylcoumarin-7-yl-methacrylate), poly(ACMA), and its nanocomposites with different contents of organoclay were synthesized and characterized by FTIR, H-1-NMR, XRD and TGA. The X-ray ...

BACKGROUND: Etiology of acute appendicitis (AA) rarely involves parasitic infections of gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Preoperative diagnosis of parasitic infections in appendix remains difficult, although parasites can ...

Background: Cesarean section (CS) is one of the most common obstetric procedures worldwide and an increased rate of cesarean section has been observed in recent studies. Maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity associated ...

We consider a spectral problem for a class of singular Sturm-Liouville operators on the unit interval with explicit singularity 2/x-2/x(2), related to the Schrodinger operator with radially symmetric potential. In particular, ...

In this study, biosorption of Cu2+ ions on to tobacco leaves was investigated. The optimum conditions for biosorption of Cu2+ ions onto tobacco leaves were determined: pH - 4.0, temperature - 20 degrees C, shaking rate - ...

Scorpion sting is one of the most important public health problem in many regions of the world. But there is not enough medical data about scorpion stings in pregnant women in the literature. The aim of this study was to ...

Objective: The coronary sinus (CS) has been largely ignored by physicians due to a lack of adequate data about the importance of CS enlargement in patients with heart failure (HF). We aimed to assess whether CS dilatation ...

This paper presents the results of the treatment of a real textile wastewater by electrocoagulation (EC) process. The textile effluent used in the experiments was obtained from a textile industry in Malatya/Turkey. The ...