Pimecrolimus cream 1% has shown to be effective in patients with a variety of inflammatory cutaneous disorders. And it might be a useful modality in the treatment of seborrheic dermatitis. This prospective study was aimed at assessing the efficacy and tolerability of pimecrolimus cream 1% in the treatment of facial seborrheic dermatitis. Twenty patients were instructed to apply pimecrolimus cre...

INTRODUCTION Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is known to be a common complication during pregnancy especially during the third trimester. AIM This article focuses on its impact to the third trimester pregnant mothers with CTS. METHODS Third trimester pregnant mothers with no other known risk factors for CTS, were interviewed and examined for a clinical diagnosis of CTS. The severity of CTS was asses...

Authors: Stephanie S Liu 1 6 Rebecca CY Leung 1 7 Karen KL Chan 1 8 Annie NY Cheung 2 9 Hextan YS Ngan 1§ 10 11 12 13 14 § Corresponding author 15 16 17 Institutions: Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 1 18 Department of Pathology 2 19 Queen Mary Hospital 20 The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 21 22 23 24 Address for correspondence: 25 Prof. Hextan Yuen-Sheung Ngan 26 Department of Obste...

Critical reflective practice is a foundation of socially just pedagogy. This paper focuses on the informal STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths) learning sector, where there an acute shortage support for critical despite long-standing, entrenched issues inequity. We analyse how practitioners used new tool, Equity Compass, co-developed by researchers through five-year partnership. r...

OBJECTIVES Patients and policy makers advocate that drug treatments should be individualised. However, the term is used in a variety of ways. We set out to identify the range of related terminology and concepts in the general field of individualisation, map out the relationships between these concepts and explore how patients' perspectives are considered. DESIGN We consulted members of an est...

HAS-V is a cryptographic hash function which processes 1024-bit message blocks and produces a hash value of variable length. The design of the hash function is based on design principles of the MD4 family. Recently, weaknesses have been shown in members of this family. Therefore, the analysis of the HAS-V hash function is of great interest. To the best of our knowledge this is the first article...

In a recent study of ischaemic and post-ischaemic paraesthesiae in the upper limb (Poole, 1956a) it was noted that the responses in subjects with advanced motor neurone disease differed from those in normal subjects. This observation seemed relevant to the study both of motor neurone disease itself, and of factors which determine the production of paraesthesiae in normal and other diseased stat...

A 33-year-old woman presented with tingling and paresthesia on left extremity for 2 months. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed that the tumor was iso- and hypo-intensity on T1-weighted image, mixed iso- and high-signal intensity on T2-weighted images and heterogeneously enhanced with rim enhancement. Neither arachnoid cleft nor dural tail was certain but mass was located extra-axially so menin...

A 45 year-old Japanese woman developed numbness and tingling of both hands and feet. Electrophysiological examination revealed sensorimotor polyneuropathy. She was diagnosed as suffering from sarcoidosis on the basis of the pathological findings from dermal biopsy. Steroid therapy effectively improved the clinical symptoms. Although sarcoid neuropathy is rare, this case suggests sensorimotor po...

Two patients reported that on walking they developed tingling and weakness of the legs and penile erections. The symptoms proved to be due to stenosis of the lumbar were canal, and were relieved by operative decompression.