“Snow storm” testis

The aetiology of multiple loose bodies. Snow storm knee.

We report four patients who showed hundreds of brilliant white loose bodies at arthroscopy of the knee after a short history of pain and crepitus. Histological, historical and clinical evidence is presented which indicates that the aetiology of this condition is the culture of chondrocytes in synovial fluid. It is suggested that reversal of the usually accepted order of events in synovial osteo...

Ocular snow storm: an unusual presentation of phacolytic glaucoma.

DESCRIPTION A 65-year-old man presented with bilateral progressive diminution of vision since the past 2 years. He had loss of vision and pain in the right eye since 2 months. He had no history of acute red eye/trauma/surgery. He had visual acuity of perception of light with accurate projection of rays in the right eye. There was white fluffy material pouring from the lens and settling in the a...

Can a computer "see" the beating heart from "Snow-storm" images

How to deal with variations of image contents, which contributes to uncertainty about shapes, locations, and boundaries of objects of interest in the image, is one of key issues in solving real-world image analysis and processing problems. A method is presented to automatically identify the target objects from images, with variations, low contrast, low resolution, and low signal-tonoise ratio, ...

Climate variability, snow, and physiographic controls on storm hydrographs in small forested basins, western Cascades, Oregon

Large floods are often attributed to the melting of snow during a rain event. This study tested how climate variability, snowpack presence, and basin physiography were related to storm hydrograph shape in three small (<1 km2) basins with old-growth forest in western Oregon. Relationships between hydrograph characteristics and precipitation were tested for approximately 800 storms over a nearly ...

Forecasting artificially-triggered avalanches in storm snow at a large ski area