CASE PRESENTATION A 54-year-old man presented to the emergency room following a scorpion sting to the right index finger. He had been unloading a shipment of mangoes from South America and noted a small scorpion in the box, which he picked up and then killed after the sting (Figure 1A). Following the envenomation, he experienced acute paresthesia localized to the right arm, up to the elbow. He ...

BACKGROUND High frequency spinal cord stimulation at 10 kHz (HF10 therapy) represents a prominent advance in spinal cord stimulation (SCS) therapy, having demonstrated enhanced efficacy in patients with back and leg pain and pain relief without paresthesia that is sustained at 24 months post implant. OBJECTIVE To report on the effectiveness HF10 SCS therapy for a wide range of intractable pai...

To the Editor:—I read, with interest, the case report describing a brachial plexopathy after an ultrasound-guided interscalene block in a patient with multiple sclerosis and the accompanying editorial and would like to make an observation not mentioned in either. Interscalene blocks have been performed using either mechanical paresthesia or electrical nerve stimulation, for decades, with succes...

Introduction: Odontectomy is the most common procedure performed by oral and maxillofacial surgeons. The consideration of odontectomy cases in general anesthesia with certain factors, such as patient anxiety, mental or physical disorders, degree difficulty impacted teeth, disoriented patients, number teeth odontectomy, duration surgery. Some complications after including swelling, trismus, pare...

Idiopathic hypoparathyroidism can rarely present with extensive spondyloarthropathic changes that closely resemble ankylosing spondylitis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, or fluorosis. Clinical presentation of the patient, typical laboratory parameters, and radiological findings aid in their differential diagnosis. Extensive spondyloarthropathy with normal sacroiliac joints in patient...

The dentigerous cyst is a common pathologic entity associated with an impacted tooth, usually third molars. They generally are asymptomatic, being found on routine dental radiographic examination. This report describes the case of a 43 year old male with a large dentigerous cyst associated with mandibular canine, first and second premolar teeth that caused paresthesia of the inferior alveolar n...

Concern has been raised on the recent High Court of Bombay ruling which stated that ECT without anesthesia was inhuman (Channabasavanna et al., 2000). Based on this the same authors have suggested the use of only modified ECT in clinical practice as patients may claim compensation for increasing the risk of complications while using unmodified ECT. However, the article by Andrade et al. (2000) ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to quantify the sensory and functional effects resulting from a short-duration (30 min) exposure to hand-arm vibration. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Nine subjects went through nine laboratory experiments. For 32 min they grasped a handle vibrating at three different amplitudes (5, 20, and 80 ms-2) and at three frequencies (31.5, 125, and 500 Hz). Additionall...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this prospective study was to evaluate the incidence of various complications, including alveolitis, infection and paresthesia of the inferior alveolar nerve, in association with removal of impacted mandibular third molars. The relation between these 3 complications and several clinical variables (age, sex, degree of impaction, surgical difficulty and use of oral contra...

BACKGROUND Conventional axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) has recently become less radical. The treatment morbidity effects of reduced ALND aggressiveness are unknown. This article investigates the prevalence of the main complications of ALND: lymphedema, range-of-motion restriction, and arm paresthesia and pain. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 200 women with invasive breast c...