Intralaryngeal Tumour in a Baby Aged 14 Days

Tumour in a 14 year old girl.

The patient, a 14 yr old girl, is the fifth child of a German family with nine children. Ten years previously both parents were infected with tubercle bacteria by their grandmother. At that time, our patient showed signs of primary tuberculosis (chest X-ray) and was treated with combined chemotherapy from 1981-1983. Chest X-ray films up to 1987 remained without pathological findings, except for...

EPO modulation in a 14-days undersea scuba dive.

Erythropoiesis is affected during deep saturation dives. The mechanism should be related to a downregulation of serum Erythropoietin (s-EPO) concentration or to a toxic effect of the hyperbaric hyperoxia. We evaluated s-EPO and other haematological parameters in 6 scuba divers before, during and after a 14-days guinness saturation dive (8-10 m). Athletes were breathing air at 1.8-2 ATA, under t...

Ectropion in A Case of Collodion Baby

- Sams Teach Yourself CORBA in 14 Days - Programming - CORBA

Teach Yourself CORBA in 14 Days is a tutorial that will provide an introduction to distributed system development using CORBA. The first week will provide the reader with much needed guidance towards the general concepts of distributed software development and CORBA architecture such as Object Request Broker (ORBs), and Interface Definition Language (IDL). It will build upon the principles of o...

Unusually large breast tumour in a middle-aged woman.

Phyllodes tumour is an unusual fibroepithelial tumour of the breast constituting only 0.3% to 0.5% of all breast lesions.1,2 It usually occurs in middle-aged women. The median size of phyllodes tumour is 4 cm; however, 20% of these tumours grow larger than 10 cm and are known as giant phyllodes tumours. We report here a rare case of a middle-aged woman who presented to her family physician with...