KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE In immunocompromised patients, the pulmonary computed tomography halo sign is highly suggestive of angioinvasive aspergillosis. Early recognition may be life-saving.

Giant cell arteritis(GCA) is a primary granulomatous vasculitis affecting the large and medium sized arteries. We present here a case of GCA with pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) as the presenting manifestation in the absence of other typical features. On evaluation, the patient had raised inflammatory markers with features of large vessel vasculitis on whole body PET-CT scan. The colour doppler...

416 CMAJ, March 19, 2013, 185(5) © 2013 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors A27-year-old male driver in a single vehicle rollover collision was transferred to a trauma centre after stabilization and endotracheal intubation at a community hospital. He had been wearing a seat belt. Other than notation of the patient’s fluctuating score on the Glasgow Coma Scale and movement of his four ...

Introduction: The target-organ approach of AFAST SM and the AFAST SM -applied fluid scoring system, the FAST DH view, and the TFAST SM format that also assesses heart and lung, encourages the sonographer using these abbreviated formats to look beyond the simplified objective of fluid-positive or fluid-negative FAST approaches. The Global FAST SM approach using these 3 techniques (AFAST SM , TFA...

As any language, Sign Language (SL) has a vocabulary and a grammar [1][2]. In addition, the SL has the specificity to be practiced in the space. The work presented in this article offers a pragmatic approach to a classification system for signs of French Sign Language (FSL) to facilitate the access to the vocabulary of this language with the least amount of search items. The objective is to set...