Harney Education Service District

Molluscs are the environment indicators and play a very important role in maintaining aquatic ecosystem by recycling nutrients and surviving as nutrition for certain aquatic organisms. Also they are important source of food for other animals i.e. fishes, birds and mammals even for human being. In the age of global decline of biodiversity, it is necessary to study the present status of different biota and hence this attempt was made. The present paper deals with check list of diversity of malacofauna from Asolamendha Dam of Chandrapur district in the period January 2025 to December 2025. A total of 20 molluscan species were reported and identified in this paper. Out of these, 12 are gastropods and 08 are bivalves. Collected molluscs belong to 02 Class, 10 Orders and 10 Families. Molluscs play an important role in ecosystems. Study of malacofauna in freshwater bodies in particular region provides documentation of molluscan species in that region which in turn helps in managing conservation policies.

PurposeMinimally invasive rectal cancer (RC) resection has become common, despite recent high-profile trials failing to show non-inferiority to open proctectomy. We hypothesized that at a high-volume center, laparoscopic resection may have superior outcomes compared to those seen in ALaCaRT and ACOSOG Z6051.MethodsRetrospective review of patients undergoing laparoscopic proctectomy from 2007 to 2015 for RC was performed at a high-volume center. Primary outcome was successful resection defined by negative circumferential resection margin (CRM) and distal margin (DM), and complete total mesorectal excision (TME).ResultsA total of 89 patients were included. Of 33 patients with TME grading, 31 (93.9%) had complete/near complete TME, and 29 (87.9%) had a “successful resection” compared with 81.7% in ACOSOG and 82% in ALaCART trials using same criteria. CRM was ≥1 mm in 87 (97.8%) of patients. Mean DM was 3.8 cm; 97.8% of patients had negative DM.ConclusionHigh-volume centers can achieve similar high quality RC outcomes to those demonstrated in recent trials. Institutional outcomes should determine optimal surgical technique.

This paper details the results of an eleven-year survey of patients admitted to the burns unit at the Royal Brisbane Hospital with injuries secondary to motor vehicle accidents. There were 64 subjects in this group. Forty-five were involved in car accidents and 19 in cycle accidents. Fifty of the patients were male, with a mean age of 26.9 years. The mean age of the 14 females was 24.9 years. Petrol fires emerged as the major source of injury in those individuals involved in car accidents, while hot metal injured most of the cyclists. Cyclists did not seem to be more prone to friction burns than motorists. Burns to the limbs predominated, but respiratory burns occurred in seven of the eight patients who did not survive. The median duration of hospitalization was 21 days, and the death rate in this series was 12.5%.