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The aim of this study was to examine whether brownish crown and root discoloration of wisdom teeth was related to treatment of acne with tetracyclines. For this purpose, 17 discolored third molars from nine patients were embedded without being decalcified, ground along the tooth axis, and examined using fluorescence microscopy. A thorough medical history served to determine the start and durati...

Venkatesan R, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220628 Description A 65-year-old man presented with fever and painful swelling at the back for last 2 weeks. His prior history was significant for long-standing type 2 diabetes of 20 years duration and systemic hypertension. Clinical examination showed red, swollen, painful carbuncle with gangrenous patch at the centre and multiple pu...

A systematic method of designing TSC checker for Q class (even code length) of Borden’s code [l] is proposed, where a modular approach is used. In a comparative study, it is found that the proposed method is much better than [2,3] and it has a larger capability than [4,5] in designing the checker. For instance, the 3/12 code in C(12,2) can be identified in one of four ways, corresponding to PT’...

It is a well known fact that if C is an [n, k, d] formally self-dual even code with n > 30, then d ≤ 2[n/8]. A formally self-dual even code with d = 2[n/8] is called nearextremal. Kim and Pless [9] conjecture that there does not exist a near-extremal formally self dual even (not Type II) code of length n ≥ 48 with 8|n. In this paper, we prove that if n ≥ 72 and 8|n, then there is no near-extrem...