The man who gained a stone

Stone Man: A Case Report

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a rare hereditary connective tissue disease characterized by the progressive ectopic ossification of ligaments, tendons, and facial and skeletal muscles throughout life. Symptoms begin in childhood as localized soft tissue swellings. Immobility and articular dysfunction appear with involvement of the spine and proximal extremities. The temporomandi...

stone man: a case report

fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (fop) is a rare hereditary connective tissue disease characterized by the progressive ectopic ossification of ligaments, tendons, and facial and skeletal muscles throughout life. symptoms begin in childhood as localized soft tissue swellings. immobility and articular dysfunction appear with involvement of the spine and proximal extremities. the temporomandi...

A man who borrowed cars.

robbery when his wife came to the neurology department at our hospital, in May, 1997, to ask for advice. At the age of 33, her husband had had a subarachnoid haemorrhage due to a ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery, and had undergone surgery a few days later. Up to then, he had no medical or psychiatric history, and had never been in trouble. He was married, had a daughter, a...

Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief – but Who Is Who in the Capitalist Economy

The thesis of this paper is that a free-market capitalist economy is biased against supplying basic needs of poor consumers and also biased against creating inventing and using green technology. We begin by identifying the patterns of perverse logic in the system of market supply and in the process of technological advance under capitalism. The first pivotal problem is that economic decision ma...

Stone Composition in Patients Who Undergo Renal Stone Surgery: Review of 423 Stone Analyses in Southern Iran