Although cardiac involvement is an infrequent presentation in human hydatidosis, early diagnosis and prompt surgical intervention of cardiac hydatid cyst are of utmost importance for the prevention of potential complications. We report a young female patient who presented with a huge cardiac hydatid cyst and severe heart failure symptoms undergoing successful surgical cyst removal with late fol...

Schwannomas arising from the 9th, 10th and 11th cranial nerves (also called jugular foramen schwannoma) without associated neurofibromatosis are relatively uncommon [1]. Schwannomas arising from the glossopharyngeal nerve are rare and fewer than 50 cases have been reported in the literature [1-4]. Glossopharyngeal schwannoma presenting in childhood is extremely rare and to our knowledge only 4 ...

A 20 year-old man presented with redness, severe visual loss and progressive protrusion of a horn-like mass from the palpebral fissure of his left eye (Fig. 1). He reported gradual appearance of a bubbly tissue on the left cornea progressively growing out of the palpebral fissure over the past several months. He had history of ocular trauma with a piece of glass from an exploding vial with unkn...

Deciding the existence of an l×m×n integer threeway table with given linesums is NP-complete already for fixed l = 3, but is in P with both l,m fixed. Here we consider huge tables, where the variable dimension n is encoded in binary. Combining recent results on integer cones and Graver bases, we show that if the number of layer types is fixed, then the problem is in P, whereas if it is variable...