Raoultella species are Gram-negative, non-motile bacilli primarily considered to be environmental bacteria. Raoultella planticola is a rare cause of human infections. We report a case of serious soft-tissue infection in a young male tiler who presented with cellulitis of his left thumb. He had sustained a crush injury to his left thumb 10 days earlier in a soiled environment. He noted a minor b...

QUESTION What is the effectiveness of 12 weeks of nightly stretch in reducing thumb web-space contracture in people with neurological conditions? DESIGN Assessor-blinded, randomised controlled trial. PARTICIPANTS Forty-four (one dropout)community-dwelling patients with a neurological condition (14 stroke, 7 traumatic brain injury, 23 spinal cord injury) who had uni or bilateral thumb web-sp...

1. Batra S, Kanvinde R. Osteoarthritis of the thumb trapeziometacarpal joint. Orthopaedics and Trauma 2007; 21:135-44. 2. Cook GS, Lalonde DH. MOC-PSSM CME article: Management of thumb carpometacarpal joint arth ritis. Plast Reconstr Surg 2008;121:1-9. 3. Merritt MM, Roddey TS, Costello C, et al. Diagnostic value of clinical grind test for carpo meta carpal osteoarthritis of the thumb. J Hand T...

Thumb duplication is a rare anomaly. Here we describe two neonatal cases of thumb duplications, one type II and the other IV. Seven types have been described in medical literature. Radiological assessment important differentiating between these types.

Dynamic routing, if properly designed, can increase the throughput of a network. In this paper, we formulate a traffic model for multi-point videoconferencing in a VP-based ATM network and derive the link level and the conference level blocking probabilities for Fixed Routing, “Maximum Free Circuit” Routing (or M Routing) and the “Bifurcated-M Routing”. The traffic bifurcation principle can als...

We present a simple kinematic model of the thumb for the animation of virtual characters. The animation is made through a pure kinematics approach, thus needing very precise limitations on the rotations of the thumb to be realistic. The thumb is made opposable thanks to the addition of two bones simulating the carpometacarpal complex.

IN THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE TITLE COMPOUND (SYSTEMATIC NAME: triethyl-ammonium 2,5-dichloro-4-hy-droxy-3,6-dioxo-cyclo-hexa-1,4-dien-1-olate), C(6)H(16)N(+)·C(6)HCl(2)O(4) (-), two hydrogen chloranilate anions are connected by a pair of bifurcated O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds into a dimeric unit. The triethyl-ammonium cations are linked on both sides of the dimer via bifurcated N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds...

This paper examines how forum shopping and procedural innovations affect the outcomes of asbestos trials using a new data set of all asbestos trials from 1987 to 2003. When lawsuits are filed in six particularly favorable jurisdictions, plaintiffs’ expected returns from trial are found to increase by $800,000 to nearly $4 million. The procedural innovations are bifurcated trials, bouquet trials...

BACKGROUND For surgical reconstruction of lateral pinch following tetraplegia, the function of the paralyzed flexor pollicis longus is commonly restored. The purpose of this study was to investigate if one of the intrinsic muscles could generate a more suitably directed thumb-tip force during lateral pinch than that of flexor pollicis longus. METHODS Endpoint force resulting from 10 N applied...

Finger-thumb coordination is crucial to manual dexterity but remains incompletely understood, particularly following neurological injury such as stroke. While being controlled independently, the index finger and thumb especially must work in concert to perform a variety of tasks requiring lateral or palmar pinch. The impact of stroke on this functionally critical sensorimotor control during dyn...