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OBJECTIVE: To report the case of a 38-year-old woman who underwent osteoplastic flap surgery for recurrent frontal sinus mucocele. During surgery, the exact shape of the frontal sinus was duplicated using a surgical navigation system. METHODS: In this case report, the authors suggest intraoperative surgical navigation systems are useful for accurately determining the dimensions of the frontal sinus for osteoplastic flap surgery. RESULTS: The patient underwent successful and safe osteoplastic flap surgery using a surgical navigation system. CONCLUSION: Surgical navigation is useful and safe for frontal sinus osteoplastic flap surgery.
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Frontal Sinus/surgery , Surgery, Computer-Assisted , Surgical Flaps , Adult , Female , Humans , Mucocele/surgery , Paranasal Sinus Diseases/surgery , Plastic Surgery Procedures/methodsABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To report the case of a 58-year-old man with a zygomatic arch fracture, which was well localized and reduced using a surgical navigation system. METHODS: In this clinical report, the authors suggest intraoperative surgical navigation systems are useful diagnostically and for localizing sites of zygomatic arch fractures. RESULTS: The patient underwent successful closed reduction of zygomatic arch fractures using a surgical navigation system. CONCLUSIONS: Surgical navigation is a useful tool for identifying the locations of zygomatic arch fractures and for guiding closed reduction. Surgical navigation is recommended for localizing the sites of zygomatic fractures.
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Closed Fracture Reduction/methods , Zygomatic Fractures , Humans , Imaging, Three-Dimensional/methods , Male , Middle Aged , Perioperative Care/methods , Surgery, Computer-Assisted/instrumentation , Surgery, Computer-Assisted/methods , Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods , Treatment Outcome , Zygoma/diagnostic imaging , Zygoma/injuries , Zygoma/surgery , Zygomatic Fractures/diagnosis , Zygomatic Fractures/surgeryABSTRACT
We examined whether pretreatment of mouse brain blood vessel endothelial cell clone 4 (MBEC4) cells with sodium nitroprusside (SNP), a NO(x) donor, as an in vitro model of the bloodbrain barrier could affect P-glycoprotein (P-gp) functional activity. Uptake into the cells and MBEC4 plasma membrane vesicles (MPMVs) in the presence or absence of SNP pretreatment was used to investigate functional changes. Increased accumulation of [(3)H]vincristine, a widely used substrate for P-gp, into MBEC4 was observed upon SNP pretreatment, likely due to impaired P-gp function. To better understand the mechanism of the impairment, MPMVs were prepared and characterized in terms of purity and Na(+)-dependent glucose uptake. [(3)H]daunomycin uptake into MPMVs was diminished after SNP pretreatment in the presence of an ATP-regenerating system, indicating that the functional activity of P-gp was impaired after exposure to SNP. Under conditions of excess ATP, daunomycin uptake into the vesicles was still decreased after SNP pretreatment, indicating that SNP interacted directly with the transport system, but not with the ATP-regenerating system. Together, these results suggest that NO or NO(x) functionally impairs P-gp in the in vitro blood-brain barrier model with SNP pretreatment.
