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Twenty-seven sediment samples from the eastern Laptev Sea were analyzed for mercury and total organic carbon as well as grain-size distribution. The average total mercury (THg) concentrations in sediments are 29 ± 14 µg kg-1. A significant correlation of THg content with total organic carbon and clay and silt fractions was shown. The 210Pb-dated sediment core was used to evaluate the contamination degree and flux of THg in sediments from the eastern Laptev Sea. The average sedimentation rate for the all dated intervals was 0.17 cm/year. The THg flux increased from 20 to 28 µg/m2/year in the period of 1892-1950 to 53-59 µg/m2/year in the modern period of 2011-2015. According to various indices, the ecological risk from THg in studied sediment was low.
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Mercury , Water Pollutants, Chemical , Mercury/analysis , Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis , Geologic Sediments/chemistry , Carbon , Environmental MonitoringABSTRACT
Sediment samples from 53 stations of the southwestern Chukchi sea were investigated to the spatial distributions and assess the state of trace metals contamination using ecological indices. The mean concentrations (mg kg-1) in sediments were: Cr (70.5), Ni (41.0), Cu (16.5), Zn (82.7), As (15.90), Cd (0.27), Pb (15.96), Hg (32.0 µg kg-1). The spatial distribution pattern of trace metals was similar with maximum values in the northern of the Chukchi Sea in the outer shelf sediments, while the high values of Cd were noted at stations located in the southern part of the sea where a strong influence of the Pacific waters penetrating through the Bering Strait. The ecological indices indicated no signs of anthropogenic pollution in the study sediments of the Chukchi Sea. Received data are of value for detecting and tracking future chemical changes in the sediments of the Chukchi sea, particularly in light of environmental changes.
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Metals, Heavy , Trace Elements , Water Pollutants, Chemical , Cadmium , China , Environmental Monitoring , Geologic Sediments , Metals, Heavy/analysis , Risk Assessment , Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysisABSTRACT
The clinical and radiological manifestations of suboccipital tuberculosis have been analyzed in 7 patients aged 7 to 35 years. A case of this condition accompanied by extensive vertebral destruction, abscesses, and basilar impression is described in a 7.5-year-old child. A radical stabilizing operation was successfully performed using the currently available technologies.
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Cervical Vertebrae , Platybasia/complications , Tuberculosis, Spinal , Adult , Antitubercular Agents/administration & dosage , Antitubercular Agents/therapeutic use , Cervical Vertebrae/diagnostic imaging , Child , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Lymph Node Excision , Time Factors , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Tuberculosis, Lymph Node/diagnosis , Tuberculosis, Lymph Node/surgery , Tuberculosis, Spinal/complications , Tuberculosis, Spinal/diagnosis , Tuberculosis, Spinal/diagnostic imaging , Tuberculosis, Spinal/drug therapy , Tuberculosis, Spinal/surgeryABSTRACT
Thirteen of 84 children with tuberculous ostitis of the proximal tibial portion were repeatedly operated on 1.5 to 12 years after radical reconstructive surgery due to developed orthopedic sequels. Deformities of the tibia were found to develop in the earliest period and tibial shortening formed significantly later. An association of the development of anatomic and functional disorders with the values obtained in the quantitative analysis of the baseline X-ray films of the diseased extremity. The findings permits one to consider it possible to significantly predict orthopedic sequels in children operated on for tuberculous ostitis and accordingly to plan repeated medical examinations.
