Right abdominal mass: keep an open mind

Right abdominal mass: keep an open mind

Amebic colitis is common in tropics, usually presenting with variable and non-specific symptoms. Amebomas occur rarely, usually in cecum and ascending colon, when they can masquerade as colon carcinoma. This report describes the case of a 27-year-old male who presented with right abdominal mass. Radiological examination prompted us to the differential diagnosis of ameboma and he was treated wit...

Subdural hemorrhage in infancy: keep an open mind.

In North America and the United Kingdom, putative cases of pediatric head injury are often disputed in the criminal justice system. The main issues that often arise are whether, in a specific case, the neuropathologic and ocular findings are due to: abusive head trauma [1], an accidental fall [2], or a natural condition that has mimicked a head injury. In general, there are four general types o...

Keep it in Mind

Quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli expressed disdain for sloppy, nonsensical theories by denigrating them as “not even wrong,” meaning they were just empty conjectures that could be quickly dismissed. Unfortunately, many remarkably popular theories of consciousness are of this ilk—the idea, for instance, that our experiences can somehow be explained by the quantum theory that Pauli himself helped...

Keep nanotechnology in mind.

Machine learning — the implementation of computational tasks that involve learning from experience — is inevitably inspired by the working principles of biological brains. However, the von Neumann architecture characteristic of conventional computers is intrinsically different from the brain’s architecture. Aside from macroscopic differences such as the overall digital nature of the signal proc...

An enlarging abdominal mass.