case reports are considered as the lowest level of evidence while at the same time they are frontiers of evidence collection. case reports are professional stories about novel medical events and will worth publication only if they possess complexity, proper data collection, justified diagnosis, and legitimate intervention as well as appropriate language, punctuation, and syntax. a case report m...

the api 20e technique for identification of e.coli was evaluated and the results compared with those obtained by the conventional biochemical tests recommended in report 71. the results obtained showed very close correlation between the two methods. a total of 196 (81.6%) out of 240 isolates were identified as e.coli by api. system, while the conventional method identified only 194 (80.8%). the...

People have a large amount of information that they wish to maintain awareness of, but yet forget to check or are too busy to check it on a regular basis. Examples of this information include weather forecasts, stock quotes, traffic reports, and financial accounts. This information can be quite important, but monitoring it is not properly supported by existing tools which focus only on the user...

This paper reports part of a study that examines how to harness the knowledge assets of older workers. Five older workers, from both public and private sector organisations, were interviewed face-to-face regarding their potential contributions to other work colleagues based on their expertise on work practices. Preliminary results revealed the following set of common themes: (a) challenges in t...

This paper reports a speech production experiment in which the effects of surrounding phrase lengths and head-argument distance on intra-sentential pause duration were tested. While the results confirm an effect of phrase length on pausing, this effect is found to be distinctly stronger for long phrases preceding the pause than for long upcoming phrases. The results are discussed with respect t...

purpose: to report three cases of alport syndrome in one  family with anterior lenticonus and retinal flecks. patients and findings: three members of one family with consanguineous parents are presented who had renal and ocular involvement. they had anterior lenticonus and a beaten bronze appearance in the macula. reduced visual acuity and photophobia were the chief complaints of these patients...

an 80-year-old man developed nightmares while using citalopram for mild depression. during the first two weeks of treatment with citalopram (10 mg daily), he didn’t experience any adverse reactions. after two weeks, he developed nightmaresand vivid dreams that were repeated every night and awakened him in midnight. although the signs of depression were relatively disappeared, the patient was an...

while carcinoma of breast is common condition, stromal sarcomas are rare tumors of breast, amongst which fibrosarcoma accounts for 16% of cases. only a few case reports are available in the international literature. we report a case of fibrosarcoma of breast, which presented as an un-encapsulated mass in the right breast of a 60-year-old female. this case was diagnosed after exclusion of all po...