Department of Interventional Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080, China, 1Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zengcheng People’s Hospital (Bo-Ji Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University), Guangzhou, Guangdong 511300, China, 2Department of Nuclear Medicine and 3Department of Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen U...

The scalp-ear-nipple (SEN) syndrome is an infrequent congenital disease. Its main features are scalp defects, malformed ears, and absence of nipples. Most of the reported cases are autosomal dominant. We report on a patient suffering SEN syndrome with possible autosomal recessive inheritance. It is concluded that SEN syndrome should be recognized as an entity with genetic heterogeneity once the...

We propose Bayesian inference in hazard regression models where the baseline hazard is unknown, covariate e¤ects are possibly agevarying (non-proportional), and there is multiplicative frailty with arbitrary distribution. Our framework incorporates a wide variety of order restrictions on covariate dependence and duration dependence (ageing). We propose estimation and evaluation of age-varying c...

It has long been recognized that the course of ulcerative colitis may be punctuated by bouts of arthritis (Bargen, 1930; McKittrick and Miller, 1935 ; Campbell, 1938 ; Cullinan, 1938; Gallart-Monds and Gallart-Esquerdo, 1956; Brooke, 1956; Wright and Kenwood, 1956; Kendal, 1958). Although arthritis is one of the most common systemic complications of ulcerative colitis outside the intestinal tra...