Complex tibial deformities imply simultaneous correction of varus deformity and internal rotation of the tibia, axis realignment, restoration of joint surface congruity and treatment and prevention of limb length discrepancy. Four patients were treated in our department using the single-cut osteotomy described by Paley. Osteosynthesis was achieved by an external fixator in two cases, K-wires in...

Introduction Ellis-van Creveld syndrome (EVC) is a very rare genetic disorder involving a severe, relentlessly progressive genu valgum deformity of the knee and it is usually difficult to correct all of the deformities by elevation of the depressed lateral tibial plateau alone. We are reporting one such case treated using two-step operative technique (first, gradual correction using Taylor spat...

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for the most general form of Boolean #CSP where every constraint function takes values in the complex number field C. This generalizes a theorem by Dyer, Goldberg and Jerrum [11] where each constraint function takes non-negative values. We first give a non-trivial tractable class of Boolean #CSP which was inspired by holographic reductions. The tractabili...

Visual narratives sometimes depict successive images with different characters in the same physical space; corpus analysis has revealed that this occurs more often in Japanese manga than American comics. We used event-related brain potentials to determine whether comprehension of "visual narrative conjunctions" invokes not only incremental mental updating as traditionally assumed, but also, as ...