‘Arthrogenous muscle weakness’ is weakness of muscles acting about an injured or inflamed joint. The weakness may be due to loss of muscle or to inability to activate the muscle (Fig. 1). Weakness of the thigh muscles, and of the quadriceps in particular, is a common and important consequence of knee trauma, surgery or arthritis, Muscle weakness contributes significantly to disability and proba...

Chondrocalcinosis associated with Gitelman syndrome (GS) presents in young adults with either no symptoms or joint pain, muscle weakness, muscle cramps, paresthesias, episodes of tetany, or hypokalemic paralysis. Spinal cord meningiomas present with gradual onset of lower extremities weakness, numbness, pain, or balance problem. We report a 76 year old gentleman who presented with gradually pro...

The number of interleavings that a concurrent program can have is typically given as the key difficulty in automatic analysis of concurrent software. Weak memory, as implemented by modern multiprocessors such as Intel x86, IBM Power and ARM, is generally believed to make this problem even harder. On the contrary, we believe that by embracing rather than fleeing from weak memory, we can obtain e...

We report acute onset quadriplegia in a ten year old boy associated with basal ganglia lesions due to biotin deficiency. Prolonged raw egg consumption was identified as predisposing factor for biotin deficiency. Treatment with biotin resulted in remarkable recovery.