Dear Editor, POEMS syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome caused by a plasma cell disorder that is clinically characterized by polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal plasmaproliferative disorder, and skin changes.1 Ischemic diseases of the coronary and lower limb arteries have often been reported in patients with POEMS syndrome.2,3 However, acute ischemic stroke is uncommo...

PoeTryMe is a poetry generation system that produces poems autonomously, from a set of initial parameters. After using a simplified version of this system, creative writers and other interested people identified some issues and expressed their wish to make changes in the resulting poems or to interact with the system and take part in the creative process. This paper illustrates some of the issu...

POEMS syndrome (also known as CroweFukase syndrome) is a serious systemic disease characterised by polyneuropathy, anasarca, skin lesions and associated with ostoclastic bone lesions and with M-proteinemia. The diagnosis of POEMS syndrome is made robust by finding increased serum/plasma vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in addition to the combination of the above mentioned characteristi...

Only a small portion of the poems in Dan Pagis' collection, Gilgul, are set aside distinctly as Holocaust poems. Seven short poems, grouped together under the heading "Qiiron /:Iii tum," and the longer piece, "cA qefJot," refer with clarity to events of the so Ji'ih. Yet certain basic concerns-above all an attention to entrapment and flight, captivity and freedom-which are most readily understa...

The Roman imperial monarchy is generally studied from the vantage point of ancient Roman history: the “Roman emperor” is viewed and analyzed as an element of the Roman world. This conventional approach fails to place this institution in a broader comparative context, that of monarchical rulers across world history. Systematic comparison opens up new perspectives and is indispensable in identify...

OBJECTIVES To investigate skin manifestations of the polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes (POEMS) syndrome and their correlation with serum vascular endothelial growth factor (s-VEGF-A) levels and to describe the impact of autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (aPBSCT) on these manifestations and the correlation with s-VEGF-A leve...

Castleman’s disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder of unknown cause. In even rarer circumstances, it can be associated with POEMS (peripheral neuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy and sk in changes) syndrome. We report a case of multicentric plasma cell CD with POEMS syndrome, who presented with inguinal masses and lower extremity weakness for years. Compu...