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...

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.

The autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is an atypical sensory phenomenon involving electrostatic-like tingling sensations in response to certain sensory, primarily audio-visual, stimuli. The current study used an online questionnaire, completed by 130 people who self-reported experiencing ASMR. We aimed to extend preliminary investigations into the experience, and establish key multise...

Two groups, each of 1 00 patients suffering from tuberculoid leprosy, were treated with different dosages of dapsone, the control group being given a conservative dosage of the drug and the study group a high dosage ( 1 200 mg weekly) . The patients in the high-dosage group showed more rapid regression of the disease , a lower incidence of relapse and early regression of the tingling, enlargeme...

The monotypic genus Linoderus Sharp, 1885 was described based on a species from Panama and since the original description nearly nothing has been added to its taxonomical knowledge. The aim of the present paper is to describe a new species of the genus from Colombia and to report the genus for the first time from South America, adding some biological notes of the species.