BACKGROUND Lhermitte-Duclos disease (LDD) is a rare cerebellar lesion characterized by a hamartomatous lesion in the posterior fossa. Mainly diagnosed by MRI, the clinical presentation is usually made of neurological symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION We present here a rare case of a woman who developed depressive symptoms that inaugurated the clinical presentation of LDD. CONCLUSION Psychiatric s...

In this paper, we report the hot carrier and the ESD related device characteristics in 0.1-μm 3.3 V I/O LDD MOSFETs without hybrid (Phos. + As) typed LDD structure. In order to suggest the device guideline for the LDD and the channel doping profiles, the investigation focuses on the analysis of electrical characteristics, such as the short channel effect, the reverse short channel effect, the s...

conclusion adc, fa, and t2* values may quantitatively reflect the microstructural characteristics of np, therefore they could be used to detect the minimal changes of early ldd. results the adc, fa, and t2* values were different (p < 0.05) among different rois within the same disc or among corresponding rois in different level discs. while the average values of adc increased regularly with the ...

Dispersal is a fundamental biological process, operating at multiple temporal and spatial scales. Despite an increasing understanding of fungal biodiversity, most research on fungal dispersal focuses on only a small fraction of species. Thus, any discussion of the dispersal dynamics of fungi as a whole is problematic. While abundant morphological and biogeographic data are available for hundred...

INTRODUCTION Lumbar disc degeneration (LDD) is genetically determined and severity of LDD is associated with Modic changes. Aggrecan is a major proteoglycan in the intervertebral disc and end plate. Progressive reduction of aggrecan is a main feature of LDD and Modic changes. OBJECTIVES The study investigated the associations of single nucleotide variants (SNVs) of candidate genes in the aggr...

Lumbar disc degeneration (LDD) is associated with both genetic and environmental factors and affects many people worldwide. A hallmark of LDD is loss of proteoglycan and water content in the nucleus pulposus of intervertebral discs. While some genetic determinants have been reported, the etiology of LDD is largely unknown. Here we report the findings from linkage and association studies on a to...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to use low-dose dobutamine (LDD) gated single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) to evaluate segmental thickening of the left ventricle (LV) and its relationship with changes in ejection fraction (EF) and ventricular volumes in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy. METHODS This prospective multicenter study involved 89 pati...

1. Dispersal is a key individual-based process influencing many life-history attributes and scaling up to population-level properties (e.g. metapopulation connectivity). A persistent challenge in dispersal ecology has been the robust characterization of dispersal functions (kernels), a fundamental tool to predict how dispersal processes respond under global change scenarios. Particularly, the r...

Location-Based Services(LBSs) in a wireless location-aware network are public and personal services intended to be available for users. It is important to support Location Dependent Data(LDD) that users want to get to their moving location properly. If we get many LDD in a local device, the communication cost increased by frequent connections can remarkably reduce. General prefetching scheme ma...

Background and objectives: Fibromyalgia (FM) and depression has been suggested to share a common underlying etiology. Few studies have investigated the role of emotional regulation processes in FM compared to depressive disorders. The purpose of the current study was to explore the use of defense mechanisms in FM patients with and without comorbid lifetime depressive disorder (LDD), and to comp...