purpose: to describe a patient with eyelid sarcoidosis. case report: a 54 year-old patient was referred for an eyelid mass from 6 months ago.excisional biopsy showed inflammatory granuloma with tuton gaint cells. chest radiograph demonstrated bilateral hilar adenopathy, increased absorption on gallium scan was noted and bronchoalveolar lavage confirmed a diagnosis of sarcoidosis. treatment with...

purpose: to present 2 cases of acanthamoeba keratitis diagnosed by confocal scanning before positive results of smear and culture, and their successful treatment with combined medical therapy and corneal epithelial debridment. patients and findings: confocal scan was carried out in 2 contact lens wearers with a clinical diagnosis of acanthamoeba keratitis followed by corneal epithelial debridme...

bone scanning using the 99mtc-phosphate analogs is an established diagnostic modality and a commonly requested radioisotope examination for a variety of pathologies involving the skeleton, such as osteomyelitis, bony metastases, and occult fractures. the bone scan is one of the most commonly requested procedure in most nuclear medicine department. the images show areas of increased and decrease...

In the last years, pattern recognition approaches using machine learning techniques to construct object detectors have encountered great success in the domain of visual detection. However, the application of automatic and robust player detection in sport videos is a particularly challenging task because of the small size, and high variability in shape and appearance of the objects to detect, an...

In the diagnosis of periodontal diseases, Digital Subtraction Radiography (DSR) is often used. A pair of dental radiographs is taken a few months apart. The difference between the two radiographs can be used as a basis for diagnosis. Even though the radiographs are in digital form, the alignment process to ensure an exact match between the two radiographs is done manually. Furthermore, there wo...