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Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52576#.VJt56cCAM4 Author(s)     Ayumi Korekawaka , Koji Nakajima , Hajime Nakano , Daisuke Sawamura * Affiliation(s) Department of Dermatology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan . ABSTRACT A 60-year-old Japanese woman was referred to our hospital for yellow-brown plaques accompanied by ulceration on her left lower leg. Her medical history included neither diabetes mellitus nor minor trauma. A histopathological examination of the plaques showed necrobiotic changes within the dermal collagen surrounded by granulomas that comprised lymphocytes, histiocytes, and giant cells. The lower ...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52139#.VIpmG8nQrzE Author(s) İsmet Alkış 1 , Sevdegül Karadaş 2 , Erbil Karaman 3* , İsmail Gülşen 2 , Reşit Öncü 2 , Numan Cim 1 , Recep Dursun 4 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, Yüzüncü Yil University, Van, Turkey . 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Faculty, Yüzüncü Yil University, Van, Turkey . 3 Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, Ercis State Hospital, Van, Turkey . 4 Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Faculty, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey . ABSTRACT Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical characteristics, maternal and fetal outcomes of trauma in pregn...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51078#.VFMdomfHRK0 Author(s) Kathleen Ong XinWei * Affiliation(s) Columbia University Narrative Medicine Program, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, USA . ABSTRACT Little has been said in trauma studies about the ability or inability of traumatized characters de-picted by traumatized writers to recover accounts of self from the aseptic reiterations of a language unable to articulate the unspeakable event of trauma. This paper argues that Cathy Caruth’s recent emphasis upon a “language of ashes”—derived from a “language of the life drive” departing from a “language of the death drive”—provides a framework for e...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50442#.VD9UvlfHRK0 Author(s)   Kevin A. Blackney , Paul H. Alfille Affiliation(s) Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA . ABSTRACT Resecting and reconstructing the carina is an anesthetic challenge in the best of circumstances. The surgery is meticulous and requires access to the trachea and bronchi, ruling out traditional lung isolation techniques. When resection of the carina is due to traumatic disruption, confounding thoracic injuries can make adequate ventilation and oxygenation difficult, especially when only one lung is available for ventilation. ECMO is an intervention that provides suf...