We present a case of a post-dural puncture headache occurring 20 min after spinal anaesthesia using a 27-Gauge Whittacre needle. The unusually early occurrence of this complication is thought to be the first of its kind reported in the literature and highlights the novelty of this case.

The authors report a case of cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old African male medical intern who contracted primary cutaneous from a needle-stick injury. Cultures of pus aspirated from the finger initially grew Staphylococcus aureus that led to a delay in the diagnosis.

Zenker’s diverticulum is rarely seen in a clinical setting and may mimic a thyroid nodule. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is effective in differentiating neck masses, and rarely has complications. FNAC of Zenker’s diverticulum presents with both squamous cells and bacteria while FNAC of thyroid nodular typically presents with follicular cells and colloid. (J Intern Med Taiwan 2016; 27: ...

The (Cauchy) initial value formulation of General Relativity is developed, and the maximal vacuum Cauchy development theorem is reviewed. There is a short discussion of the evolution equations and associated guage choices, and global results are mentioned briefly in the conclusion.

The EU project Twenty One will support cross lan guage queries in a multilingual document base A prototype version of the Twenty One system has been subjected to the Cross Language track tests in order to set baseline performances The runs were based on query translation using dictionaries and corpus based disambiguation methods

Action languages are formal models of parts of the natural lan guage that are used for talking about the e ects of actions This article is a collection of de nitions related to action languages that may be useful as a reference in future publications

TSOc is presented as a declarative, object-oriented, concurrent programming language and model. Its intended eld of application is the coordination of simultaneously active autonomous applications. This lan-guage/model is based on a type lattice and constraints over typed variables. Subtyping and constraints allow to specify interfaces and communication protocols in a declarative way.

BACKGROUND Valsalva maneuver reduces pain by activating sinoaortic baroreceptor reflex arc. We planned this study to evaluate the role of valsalva in attenuating spinal needle-puncture pain. METHODS Ninety American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) grade I and II enrolled patients undergoing elective surgery were randomized into 3 groups of 30 each. Group I (Control): didn't blow; group II (...

background and objectives:breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. fine needle aspiration biopsy (fnab) is one of the methods of breast biopsy which is fast, easy and cost effective. the aim of this study was to evaluate the concordance rate between pathologic results of sonography or stereotaxy guided fnab and guided core needle biopsy (cnb) in the evaluation of breast le...

conclusions there is clinical utility in knowing the relative deflection of various needle tips. when a procedure requires a needle to be steered around obstacles, or along non-collinear targets, the predictable and large amount of deflection obtained through use of a beveled spinal needle may prove beneficial. materials and methods six needles commonly used in spinal procedures (quincke, short...