Objectives: To analyze the safety and efficacy of bronchial artery embolization (BAE) in the management of hemoptysis.Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of 334 patients who had undergone BAE for hemoptysis from January 2007 to July 2013.Our study included 255 (76.3%) males and 79 (23.7%) females with an age range from five to 81 years old.
Beauty and Limitations of Museums as Tools for Social and Cultural Reawakening in Nigeria
Museum has been described as a powerful cultural centre for the community, a powerful institution which has a lot to add to the development of any nation.It is man-made feature that exists to converse historic collections and commemorate past events for tourists consumption (youell, 1998).Examples of these are louvre Museum in paris, France; sukin
RESEARCH ON CORS (CONTINUOUSLY OPERATING REFERENCE STATION) SYSTEM-BASED REGIONAL WATER VAPOR RETRIEVAL IN GUILIN
This paper was aimed at analyzing and verifying each of the parameter settings in the computing process of GAMIT.The optimum number of introduced auxiliary station was determined, and models for the weighted mean temperature of the atmosphere in Guilin were established.Under the underlying strategy of introducing all the respective most optimum cri
Vandetanib in a Child Affected by Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma with Both NF1 and Homozygous RET Proto-oncogen Germ-line Mutations
Cases of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1)-associated medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) or C-cell hyperplasia are rarely associated with other endocrine tumors or cases with a multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2.In these patients, mutations read more were detected in the NF1 gene but no mutations were detected in the RET gene.Although vandetanib has b
SUB-LETHAL EFFECT OF Melia azedarch L. FRUITS EXTRACT ON GONADS OF BEET ARMYWORM, Spodoptera exigua (NOCTUIDAE:LEPIDOPTERA)
The enrich methanolic extract of unripe fruit of Melia azedarch L.which was given with the food of larvae beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua Hunber.Concentrations of the extract which were ranged between 0.25 to 10.0 ppm were used to investigate the effect of M.azedarach extract on the gonads of adults derived from treated larvae.Histological bases o