Accepted 4 March 1997 A 76-year-old woman presented to her general practitioner with pain in the throat and neck, worse on coughing and associated with swelling. Twenty-four hours earlier she had undergone flexible sigmoidoscopy and laser treatment with Nd:YAG laser for a sessile tubulovillous adenoma of the rectum. She had undergone laser treatment uneventfully three times before at four-weekl...

Case presentation 83 yr old lady presented with pain in left thigh and lower leg. There was history of lethargy, feeling tired and cold chills. Inflammatory markers were high with ESR 127 and CRP 203. Patient had history of malignant melanoma (2008) and AF on Warfarin. Examination of the hip showed reduced internal rotation. Xray pelvis, femur and chest were normal. USG abdomen showed heterogen...

The diagnosis and therapy of intensive care patients requires the usage of several catheters inside the patients chest. The information about the position and path of the catheters inside the patients body is important for the doctor, but is nowadays not part of the clinical routine. One possible source of this information are CT or NMR scans, which lead to an organizational overhead and additi...

Conventional X-ray studies, such as chest X-rays (CXR) or an X-ray of the hand, as well as computed tomography (CT) all use X-ray radiation. X-rays are similar to light in that both are forms of energy that propagate as waves. They differ in that X-rays have much shorter wavelengths that are capable of penetrating many substances that light waves cannot. You are not required to know the physics...

Purpose of the paper and literature addressed: The purpose of this research is to understand why early supplier integration in new product development repeatedly fails and how to select the right suppliers to avoid supplier obstructionism. We review the literature on early supplier integration. Research method: We conducted a consortial benchmarking study, involving seven firms as part of the r...

This paper discusses two new developments in methods for virtually reconstructing paintings that have been painted over from Xray synchrotron imaging data of their canvases. First, Xray synchrotron data often contains areas of information loss, in which signal from underlayers was unable to penetrate particularly thick or Xrayabsorbent surface features. We present a new method for automatically...

Most of the experiments planned for LCLS will require accurate measurements of xray pulse temporal history, including pulse shape and relative timing with optical lasers. These requirements are particularly daunting given the recent demands for shorter pulse-widths (< 50 fs), some of which are discussed at the LCLS workshop[1]. This LOI addresses a novel approach to these measurements. There ar...

A 72 year old male patient, with rheumatoid arthritis of 20 years duration presented to us in 2009 with weight loss of 3 kg and no respiratory symptoms. Additional features included a history of empyema nineteen years back treated as tuberculosis (old chest radiographs not available). He also had history of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules. He had been taking methotrexate and leflunomide for man...

a three day old neonate was referred to our department with a problem of a sternal cleft. sternal clefts are often associated with a myriad of other abnormalities ranging from mild to severe. we present our experience with such a problem, and review the current literature concerning it.