We have established a 34-item fatigue bank allowing for more precise and flexible measurement of fatigue, while still being backward compatible with the QLQ-C30 fatigue scale.”
“Rhinolithiasis is a disease caused by deposition of organic and inorganic compounds in the nasal cavity. A nidus may be endogenous PP2 clinical trial or exogenous. Rhinoliths are uncommon and often an asymptomatic condition diagnosed accidentally during a routine examination; but sometimes they may cause complications such as unilateral nasal obstruction, fetid rhinorrhea, or epistaxis. This article describes a case of rhinolith involving a 21-year-old female. The flat panel detector-based cone beam computed tomography
(FPD-CBCT) findings, differential diagnosis, and treatment in a case of rhinolith are presented.
(Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod 2009;107:e65-e67)”
“This study evaluated the efficacy and toxicity of belotecan (CKD-602), a new camptothecin analogue topoisomerase I inhibitor, in patients with recurrent or refractory epithelial ovarian cancer. Data from 63 patients who had been treated with intravenous belotecan (0.5 mg/m(2)/day), administered for 5 days every 3 weeks at a single Selleck SBC-115076 institute in Seoul, Korea, were collected retrospectively. The overall response rate was 30.2% including 9 patients with complete remission (CR) and the progression free survival was a median of 6.5 (0.7 – 29.7) months. The platinum-sensitive group had a significantly higher response rate and longer progression-free survival more than the platinum-resistant group. The most common adverse effect of belotecan was hematologic toxicity which was tolerable. As a single chemotherapy agent, belotecan was effective in treating recurrent or refractory epithelial ovarian cancer, and had acceptable toxicity. Further
studies of the efficacy of belotecan in combination with platinum or the other agents are warranted.”
“In order to improve the magnetic and electrical selleck products properties of low resistance alumina based magnetic tunnel junctions, an off-axis method of sputtering has been investigated. It is shown that the tunnel magnetoresistance ratio can be greatly increased when there is an offset between the target and the wafer axes during the deposition of the ultrathin aluminum layer (off-axis sputtering) prior to its natural oxidation. The ferromagnetic coupling between the pinned and the free layer through the alumina barrier is also reduced compared to a classical on-axis deposition. This observation is interpreted as an improvement of the barrier quality, reducing both the roughness and the pinholes density. We assume that when the Al layer is sputtered off-axis, the magnetic and aluminum layers are protected from energetic neutralized Ar atoms bombardment. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.