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INTRODUCTION Pyomyositis is a disease in which an abscess is formed deep within large striated muscles. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 10-year-old boy who presented with fever and a painful hip and was subsequently diagnosed with pyomyositis of the tensor fascia lata. In children with clinical and laboratory findings of inflammation in the vicinity of the hip joint, the differentia...

The Legg-Calve-Perthes disease is an idiopathic avascular necrosis of the hip during early childhood. It is characterized by different stages with the main risk of persisting hip deformation, dysfunction of the joint movement, and the potential for early osteoarthritis. For the evaluation of prognosis and therapy planning patients age and extent of the necrotic area of the epiphysis are importa...

The possible role of coagulatory disorders in pathogenesis of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease (LCPD) and osteochondrosis (OC) was examined. A decrease in protein C level in dogs with LCPD (94.31±4.74%) in comparison with healthy dogs (95.8±6.35%) was observed. Moreover, in OC affected animals, the value varied between 92.25±2.5% and 94.33±5.5%. The mean plasma fibrinogen level in control group was 2...

A big open question of algorithmic information theory is the choice of the universal Turing machine (UTM). For Kolmogorov complexity and Solomonoff induction we have invariance theorems: the choice of the UTM changes bounds only by a constant. For the universally intelligent agent AIXI (Hutter, 2005) no invariance theorem is known. Our results are entirely negative: we discuss cases in which un...

AIMS To determine the incidence and distribution of Legg-Calvé-Perthes' disease in Liverpool, in the period 1982-95. METHODS Examination of information in a register, analysing the patients' addresses by indices of deprivation. RESULTS A total of 122 white children were diagnosed as having Perthes' disease during the study, whereas black and minority groups form 5.8% of the population. The ...

Patients with Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCP) often exhibit relative overgrowth of the greater trochanter and shortening of the femoral neck. Biomechanically, this corresponds to a shorter lever arm and a decreased muscle tension which may result in a Trendelenburg gait and pelvic instability. This is a retrospective study of 31 patients (32 hips) with LCP disease and relative overgrowth of th...

About a hundred years after the first reports about the disease Legg-Calvé-Perthes that Perthes also called, since it is still the main cause of this disease is unknown. Perthes with the loss of femoral head blood flow in growing children, between the ages of 2-13 years is determined and is considered as a vascular disease. The outbreak, one in every 1,200 children younger than 15 years is. 5-4...

The literature on lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) affirmative psychotherapy suggests that heterosexist and homophobic discourses persist in the accounts of counsellors and therapists (Milton, Coyle & Legg, 2005) and that these may particularly cohere around the issue of same-sex parenting (Moon, 1994; Phillips, et al 2000). The current research demonstrates that this was the case in focus group...

Since the introduction of excision arthoplasty in veterinary medicine the question of indication is often asked. The maximum of the patient's body weight up to which surgery should be performed is another discussed problem. A long-term study from January 1985 to July 1995 at the Veterinary Surgery Department at the Justus-Liebig-University was carried out to answer these questions (222 patients...