BACKGROUND Keloids as unusual scars are injury remnants characterized by bizarre cosmetics and painful itching. This study assessed outcomes of surgical excision and brachytherapy in intractable keloids. METHODS Six patients with 10 keloid lesions were followed up. Surgical excision was done with 1-2 mm margin, and then radiotherapy was undertaken in 3 divided fractions on days 0, 1 and 2 ...

OBJECTIVE Intractable epilepsy is a serious neurologic problem with different etiologies. Decreased levels of pyridoxal phosphate in cerebral spinal fluid of patients with intractable epilepsy due to pyridoxine dependency epilepsy are reported. The aim of this study was to compare plasma pyridoxal 5´-phosphate level in patients with intractable and controlled epilepsy. MATERIALS & METHODS Thi...

AIM In this retrospective study, we evaluated the clinical responses to antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy in pediatric epilepsy patients treated at a single center. MATERIALS AND METHODS We identified 28 children with intractable epilepsy and 213 patients with drug-responsive epilepsy. RESULTS Univariate analysis showed that age at onset, high (daily) initial seizure frequency, infantile spa...

Prurigo nodularis (PN) is an eruption of lichenified or excoriated nodules related to intractable pruritus. A few reports have shown that a 308-nm excimer lamp/laser (EL) is effective for intractable PN. Herein, we report on two cases of intractable prurigo nodularis successfully treated with a new EL equipped with a filter to cut wavelengths shorter than 297 nm. Because this newly developed EL...

Training: intractable likelihood likelihood needed for MCMC; grid MRF intractable due to global normalization. Solution: pseudo-likelihood approximation, locally normalized: p(y|f) = ∏P p=1 p(yp|yp+1 . . . yP , f) ≈ ∏P p=1 p(yp|neighbours(p), f) Prediction: intractable marginals Pixel-wise MAP intractable in grid MRF. Solution: Obtain approximate marginals using treereweighted belief propagatio...

OBJECTIVE Trace elements such as zinc and copper have physiological effects on neuronal excitability that may play a role in the etiology of intractable epilepsy. This topic has been rarely discussed in Iranian epileptic patients. This study with the analysis of serum zinc and copper levels of children and adolescents with intractable and controlled epilepsy may identifies the potential role of...

OBJECTIVE To examine the clinical characteristics of intractable diarrhoea associated with secondary amyloidosis in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS Of 179 RA patients with biopsy confirmed secondary amyloidosis, 24 cases (23 women and one man) with intractable diarrhoea lasting for more than one month were retrospectively evaluated. RESULTS The mean (SD) duration of diarrhoea was 87 (64)...

Endocarditis and intracardiac infection have been increased recently especially in dialysis dependent renal failure patients. This is usually intractable infection to broad spectrum Antibiotic therapy and in most cases surgical intervention was necessary. We have presented 45 years old man with intracardiac infection at the tip of dialysis catheter that after catheter removal intracardiac infec...