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Marvin, a 21-year-old Honduran, got two tattoos on his upper right arm three years ago. This morning, at a clinic in this town outside San Pedro Sula, he is getting them burned off. He betrays no pain as the nurse injects him repeatedly with anesthetic beneath the tattoos and his skin swells.

One tattoo is a cross, which Marvin says he got for no particular reason. The other is the name "Julia." Julia is no longer his girlfriend, but that`s not why he is removing the tattoos -- instea

Nasal obstruction remains a challenge to the modem day rhinologist. In the evolving climate of "cost containment" and "risk-outcome analyses", office-based inferior turbinate reduction has regained popularity. This article describes a new method to reduce nasal obstruction in patients with chronic rhinitis when conventional medical therapy has failed.

Rhinitis is chronic (CR) when symptoms of nasal obstruction, sneezing, itchy nose, and rhinorrhea persist for more than 3 months each y

The infrared coagulator, a spin off of laser technology, has been used for more than a decade, first in Europe and then in the United States, for the in-office elimination offlrst and second degree hemorrhoids. Even more recently, it has been employed in the treatment and removal of unwanted tattoos. This device has been FDA approved for both anorectal and dermatologic applications.

Within the last year, we have conducted a thorough study in our practic