Background: Anterolateral thigh flap (ALT) is used as a workhorse flap for head and neck reconstruction.The most used method to map the perforators nowadays is hand-held Doppler although several more sophisticated techniques have been described.This paper is to investigate whether harvesting the ALT flap without preoperative mapping is safe.Materia
OBJECTIVES.We describe a school program based on a student manual for promoting mental health and preventing mental illness.METHODS.A preliminary version of the manual was assessed for face validity by two focus groups.The final version was evaluated for acceptability among 253 students in 10 high schools ALKALINE PITCHER BLUE and 1 middle school i
This paper uses 601 cited papers of Pakistani LIS researchers with the purpose to examine the individual performance of these Library and Intimate Care Information Science (LIS) researchers in terms of their research output and its impact on the LIS (national/international) literature by using various bibliometric indicators.A list of 139 authors w
Background: Oropharyngeal dysphagia and laryngeal dysfunction are complications of lung and heart transplantation.However, there is a lack of understanding around pre-operative function and an absence of standardized assessment protocols.We aimed to trial a pre- and post-operative protocol for assessing voice and swallowing function.Method: A prosp
Japanese encephalitis (JE) is an Gloves important, vaccine-preventable cause of viral encephalitis in Asia.This medical condition has a high morbidity and mortality rate, remains an under-recognized cause of encephalitis, with high rate of mortality and severe sequelae in children, especially in West Kalimantan.However, poor surveillance has made t