For many years a number of workers have studied the relation between arterial occlusion or compression in man, produced by various pathological processes, and peripheral nerve abnormality. The whole subject was authoritatively reviewed by Richards (1951). There is ample evidence, clinical, histological, and electrical, that ischaemia of a nerve has an adverse effect upon it. Persisting nerve da...

A long-term review of 108 women suffering from various forms of vulval dermatosis is described and a detailed analysis of those with chronic hypertrophic vulvitis, lichen sclerosus et atrophicus, and neurodermatitis is made. One case of neurodermatitis and two cases of lichen sclerosus progressed to carcinoma but no case of chronic hypertrophic vulvitis became malignant. It is possible that vul...

The clinical picture of 'pyelitis in infancy " is so familiar to anyone (lcaling with children, and is so gliblv spoken of in text-books and medical journals, that one would imagine the disease had a definitely established pathological basis. This is not the case. It was in an attempt to establish this basis that the present study was undertaken. In the presentation of the (lata I shall give fi...

Although the brownish area at the corneal periphery in the region ofDescemet's membrane was first described by Kayser (I902), and Fleischer (I9I2) recognized it as a part of Wilson's disease (hepato-lenticular degeneration), there have been no previous reports in the ophthalmic literature of the United Kingdom of a pathological study of the lesion which is now recognized as a pathognomonic find...

For the study of chronicity, malignancy or development of diffuse glomerulonephritis, 60 autopsy cases of chronic glomerulonephritis were selected and their intrarenal vascular changes were compared with respective clinical data and clinical course. In arteries measuring over 200µ in diameter, the degree of arterioscle-rosis was totally proportional to age, duration of illness, blood pressure, ...

A case of primary brainstem death in a man with surgically treated cerebellar haemorrhage is reported. Necropsy revealed extensive necrosis confined to the brainstem and cerebellum. The absence of diabetes insipidus and the persistence of electroencephalographic activity were the characteristic clinical features of the case. This differentiates the condition from so-called "whole brain death". ...

ir students in iran do not find themselves strong enough in ir theories. furthermore the published and unpublished work suggests that the relationship between theory and research is not appropriately established. this article is based on a research done to examine some hypotheses that can explain this partial weakness. three sets of factors (teaching ir theories, ir theory sources available in ...

We report a 44-year-old female patient without any familial history of dementia presenting with increasing disturbances in behaviour and language followed by a progressive cognitive deterioration. Neuropsychological evaluation revealed a significant impairment on frontal lobe tests. A brain PET scan disclosed a severe frontal hypometabolism. The tentative diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia wa...

INTRODUCTION Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) ranks as the fourth most frequent cancer in men (after lung, prostate and stomach cancer), and third in women (after cancers of breast and uterine cervix).Adenocarcinoma of the colon is the most common malignancy of the GI tract and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It is also one of the most common cancers in Nepal. METHODS A descr...