tantalum/asthenia

BACKGROUND Severe medial and/or superior defects encountered in revision THA are currently managed with jumbo (≥ 66 mm) acetabular components and modular augments, with reconstruction cages, or with the cup-cage technique. Preoperative planning can indicate when these techniques may not restore

Structural tracheal stenoses have different functional effects according to degree, localization and extent of the stenosis. Further modifications are due to malacic components within the range of the stenosis or tracheal segments abutting on the stenosis. Nineteen patients with mainly cervical

In view of the severe damage caused by unyielding, low residual volume cuffs, various modifications to the cuff of an intratracheal tube have been introduced. The merits of two low-pressure cuffs were assessed in an experimental study in dogs; both cuffs produced little visible damage to the