Objective. Bone lesion is crucial for diagnosing and management of polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal protein, and skin change (POEMS) syndrome, a rare plasma cell disorder. This study is to compare the effectiveness of X-ray skeletal survey (SS) and computed tomography (CT) for detecting bone lesions in Chinese POEMS syndrome patients, and to investigate the relationship ...

POEMS syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome secondary to plasma cell dyscrasia. Osteosclerotic bone lesion is a characteristic change seen in POEMS syndrome, whereas pathological fracture is rare. Monoclonal l plasmacytoma may be the main pathological change responsible for bone lesions in patients with POEMS syndrome. In this study, we describe a patient who presented with a pathological ...

INTRODUCTION Renal involvement in POEMS (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-band, skin changes) syndrome is considered to be an under-diagnosed phenomenon with no clear treatment path. The limited literature suggests steroids to be the drug of choice, although improvements are limited and usually reverse on withdrawal of the drug. CASE PRESENTATION A 52-year-old Caucasian woman p...

Р. 8. Bakeyev Rinat A. Tomsk State University. THE PLOT OF M.YU. LERMONTOV’S POEM «DEMON» IN THE STRUCTURE OF F.M. DOSTOEVSKY’S NOVEL «IDIOT». In the article the communication of M.Yu. Lermontov’s poem «Demon» and F.M. Dostoevsky's novel «Idiot» at the level of characterology and plot organization is studied. In this context the analysis of five plot checkpoints of the named works of art is car...

Li and colleagues are to be congratulated for conducting the first prospective clinical trial for POEMS syndrome, which treated 31 patients with 12 cycles of melphalan and dexamethasone.1 Although the choice of regimen is an old standard, this study is novel and important on several levels. First, it demonstrates that accrual for a trial for this very rare disease is possible. Second, the autho...

“in Just-” is one of the best-written poems by American modernism poet e. e. cummings. “in Just-” helps the reader visually see the transformation from reality to illusion and aurally hear the conversion of time and space, and it illustrates its unique visual and aural effects to further the theme of spring. This paper attempts to analyze the linguistic and typographical aspects of this visual ...

O Poeta Artificial is a bot that tweets poems, in Portuguese, inspired by the latest Twitter trends. Built on top of PoeTryMe, a poetry generation platform, so far it had only produced poems based on a set of keywords in tweets about a trend. This paper presents recently implemented features for increasing the connection between the produced text and the target trend through the reutilisation a...

This article examines three contemporary Australian poems that concern themselves with matters of the sacred within the modern Australian city. Noting that Australian poetry and the sacred have often been studied in terms of the landscape, the article approaches these poems as part of an undercurrent of spiritual or sacred writing that takes up urban Australian spaces as important and resonant ...

Poems are essential in art and vital organs in literature. Similarly, surgery (and neurosurgery) is also regarded to be an art in medicine. From Hippocrates to nowadays, there is a debate on whether medicine -especially surgery- is a kind of an art or a field of science or a combination of both. This close relation becomes clearer during the practice of surgery, especially in neurosurgery. Here...