Stiff guide technique: technical report and illustrative case.

Stiff person case misdiagnosed as conversion disorder: A case report

Background: Stiff person syndrome (SPS) is a rare neurological disease resulting in stiffness and spasm of muscles. It initially affects the axial muscles and then spread to limb muscles. Emotional stress exacerbated the symptoms and signs of the disease. The pathophysiology of the disease is caused by the decreased level of the glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) activity due to an autoantibody ...

The Efficacy of the Coaxial Technique Using a 6-Fr Introducer Sheath in Stent Placement for Treating the Obstructions Proximal to the Descending Colon

OBJECTIVE We wanted to evaluate the efficacy of stent placement using the coaxial technique with a stiff, long introducer sheath in patients with technical failure using an angiographic catheter for the obstructions proximal to the descending colon. MATERIALS AND METHODS Self-expandable metallic stent placement was attempted under fluoroscopy-guidance in 77 consecutive patients who had malign...

Case report (Technical and scientific) of transverse excitation atmospheric air laser

Review of Home & Community Social Behavior Scales

DESCRIPTION. The Home & Community Social Behavior Scales (HCSBS) is a 64-item behavior rating scale that is completed by parents “and other home-based raters” of children and youth between ages 5 and 18. In contrast to the “highly clinical” nature of many child behavior rating instruments, the HCSBS is designed to emphasize “routine or commonly occurring social competencies and problems” (user’...

Transfer of a self-expanding stent to a braided microcatheter with the aid of transcatheter illumination: technical report and illustrative case.

A new self-expanding stent approved for the treatment of wide-necked intracranial aneurysms can be difficult to deploy in tortuous vascular anatomy. Some of the difficulty may be attributed to deformation of the delivery microcatheter. We describe a technique for transferring the stent into a braided microcatheter.