Background: Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is a variety of lupus disease characterized with sticky thick scaces telangiectasia and follicular plugging. Objectives: To determine the relative frequency of clinical, paraclinical and pathological findings in patients with DLE. Patients and Methods: The clinical, Paraclinical and pathological findings in 50 biopsy proven patients with DLE referre...

Papillary renal cell carcinoma (pRCC) represents the second most common type of malignant renal epithelial tumor (represents the 10% of the kidney's carcinoma) and can be subclassified in the basophile type I and eosinophile type II. We report a clinical case of spontaneous rupture of the kidney affected by multifocal (42 tumors foci) pRCC in a young man 53 years old, without showing earlier sp...

Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome caused by structural and/or functional cardiac disorders that impair the heart’s ability as a pump to support the circulation1-3. It is associated with a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms resulting in a wide range of clinical expressions. Its prevalence is approximately 1-2% of the population and increases rapidly with age, reaching double di...

The history of writing is interesting not just because it marks the evolution of means for preserving or communicating information but also because writing can be taken as representing aspects of language including such structural features as sentences, words, syllables and phonemes. Just how graphic symbols came to represent underlying linguistic constituents is the concern of this paper.] As ...

Neuronal responses in auditory cortex show a fascinating mixture of characteristics that span the range from almost perfect copies of physical aspects of the stimuli to extremely complex context-dependent responses. Fast, highly stimulus-specific adaptation and slower plastic mechanisms work together to constantly adjust neuronal response properties to the statistics of the auditory scene. Evid...

Pathological gambling (PG) represents the end spectrum of gambling behaviours. It is characterised by constantly recurring gambling behaviour which is maladaptive. This case illustrates how an Asian woman pathological gambler progresses through the different stages of development of the gambling habit, and how a multi-modal treatment approach has helped her regain psychosocial function. In addi...

The domain of DDI identification is constantly showing a rise of interest from scientific community since it represents a decrease of time and healthcare cost. In this paper we purpose a new approach based on shallow linguistic kernel methods to identify DDIs in biomedical manuscripts. The approach outlines a first step in the usage of semantic information for DDI identification. The system obt...

We present a study aimed at investigating how novel signs emerge and spread through a community of interacting individuals. Ten triads of participants played a game in which players created novel signs in order to communicate with each other while constantly rotating between the role of interlocutor and that of observer. The main result of the study was that, for a majority of the triads, commu...