Dermatomal Charts

Sensory dermatomal representation in the medial lemniscus.

BACKGROUND Restricted sensory deficits along the somatotopic topography of the medial lemniscus rarely develop in medial medullary infarction. We describe a patient with medial medullary infarction who presented with dermatomal sensory deficits caused by a medial lemniscal lesion. CASE DESCRIPTION A 58-year-old man presented with sudden right-sided hemiparesis and paresthesia. He had noticed ...

Surgical Treatment of Dermatomal Capillary Malformations in the Adult Face

BACKGROUND Facial capillary malformations (CMs) rarely recede; they often become darker and raised in proportion to their growth. These malformations may hypertrophy in adulthood, resulting in increased disfigurement and dysfunction. Laser treatment is considered a first-line therapy for focal CMs, but thick wide lesions, which are accompanied by hypertrophy and have a well-circumscribed nodula...

EXIT Charts

With wide applications of Turbo Principle in communications engineering, the EXIT Charts (Extrinsic Information Transfer Charts) has been a powerful tool to visualize the convergence behavior of iterative decoding process based on mutual information. Within this report, an introduction to EXIT Charts, its background, properties and applications are presented to allow the audience be familiar wi...

Ophthalmic Charts

MINDCUMIN charts

A serious drawback of classical control charts is their high sensitivity to deviations from normality. By now, many alternative procedures, often of a nonparametric nature, have been proposed. A danger with these competitors is that unrealistically large Phase I samples might be needed. This can be avoided by using groups of, rather than individual (IND), observations during Phase II. A recentl...