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Specially in Asian patients or small statured patients precontoured plates can be difficult to place
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I prefer LCP extraarticular distal humerus plate 3.5 for distal humeral shaft fractures where it is difficult to put even 3 distal screws (without impinging olecranon fossa). This plate's distal curve laterally achieves stable fixation without encroaching space for olecranon..
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I have a 67 yr old male who presents with facial numbness. Complains about when he eats his face becomes numb (some times tingling), facial swelling (especially his nose), and splotches of red and purple colored skin around nose and cheeks. Doesn't want to talk when this attack comes on. He experiences these symptoms after he eats.
He has been seen by neurologist, immunologist, dermatologist and a endocrinologist. He has had a brain CT scan that shows multiple lesions on the brain but no correlation. Doctors are perplexed and can't find what's causing. They have never had a patient with these problems before.
Worst case he ate Chinese food last night and his face swelled like a basketball with severe numbness on one side of his face (left-side). Ice was applied to help the swelling (to see if that would help), he couldn't feel the ice cube on his face at all. He eats a lot of peanut butter. I thought maybe a food allergy but not sure. I also thought about MSG poisoning. Maybe he has been ingesting too much foods with MSG and he is having an allergic reaction.
  Does any one have any ideas or directions that I might go on?
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Is he consuming alcohol daily? If so, stop immediately. What is systemic blood pressure, sitting and lying in both limbs? Age? Being proactive will help, not being sorry. The time for being sorry is far past. Body weight? Height? BMI?
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I have heard of Lowery's 5-item cluster ((1) a history of "catching" or "locking" as reported by the patient, (2) pain with forced hyperextension, (3) pain with maximum flexion, (4) pain or an audible click with McMurray's maneuver, and (5) joint line tenderness to palpation), just wanted to see what other clusters have proven successful for clinical examination
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Duly noted, thank you all! I have never heard of Homer's test until now, sounds fascinating! I also like the Thessaly's for its high specificity and joint line tenderness as criteria.
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A few of my patients with probable diagnosis of arthritis complain of posterior aspect of knee pain (popliteal fossa) ..What's the reason or what is the relation? 
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In practice we see a lot of:
1 Popliteus muscle 
2 Posterior capsula (osteophytes) 
3 Gastrocnemius - Biceps femoris 
4 Increased mechanical stress because of altered kinematics (hip/pelvis- femur tibia- foot-ankle chain)
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Vicon analysis of a task during sitting
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Sarah,
In addition to the ideas already mentioned (which I'd agree are very useful), you can also configure segment markers into a cluster with known geometry, and use various methods to filter out motion artifact on the segment by using cluster geometry and some kind of shape analysis or filter. One possible approach:
Hope that helps.
Best,
Sean Osis
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Je recherche un questionnaire évaluant les capacités enpathiques pour les adolescents et/ou les adultes en langue française.
Merci,
Olivier Moyano
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Bonjour Olivier. Si vous ne trouvez pas ce style d'échelle en français, c'est sans doute que la clinique analytique (qui prend en charge des enfants et des adolescents, voir les travaux de la Cause des Bébés, dans le sillage de Françoise Dolto, ou encore le travail de Danièle Epstein avec des adolescents dans des cadres judiciaires) ne fonctionne pas avec ce style d'échelle issues souvent du comportementalisme anglo-saxon. 
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Hi everybody! Have question about sexual maturity of female Maine coon cats. In general, a kitten is considered an adult cat when it reaches 1 year of age. Kittens typically reach a length and weight close to their full-grown size by 9 to 12 months of age. I know that cat like Maine coon, typically take even longer to grow to their full size. They will be fully grown when reach 2 to 4 years of age. So does it mean that 2 years of age is the earliest year to breed a female Maine coon cat? Thanks, Nataša
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Dear All,
Sexual maturity of any cats depends mainly on the season when they were born. Those born in late summer or even autumn reach it earlier than those born in the spring. But it is true that some breeds (i.e. Maine coone) reach it a bit later than the other
Female Main coon should not be bred until they are at least 1 year old and had had a least two oestrus cycles. There are some circumstances when you can bred them even before, but it is better to wait at least until they are one year old.
Asist.prof. dr. Primoz Klinc DVM, PhD, dipl. ECAR
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Does anyone know how many surgeries are rescheduled due to incorrect blood vessel identification in preoperative imaging studies?
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I believe it has to do with the single institution imaging quality and  the proper technique used (CT vs US or both).
In my work setting (CT pre-surgery with marking and US in OR) we have very few such cases reported. If interested I can see for exact numbers.
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Enzyme AGPRT convert hypoxanthine to AMP.what are there different between Enzyme AGPRT of SALVAGE PURINES in ST twich and FT twich of skeletal muscles?
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25 years old male L handed  Neer 4 fracture proximal humerus preoperative pointing index deformity
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The lesion at this level may also be caused by the swelling sorrounding the fracture and to my knolledge section of the median nerve alone rarely ocurs unless there is a braqial plexus lesion like the ones produced by motorcycle accidents. I strongly sugest to wait and see. There mwill allways be time for an exploration and repair after a EMG study.