Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) is an established treatment for hydrocephalus and is an alternative method avoiding shunts and its complications. There is still controversy regarding the higher risk of failure in younger infants. NARF was a male preterm newborn of 33 weeks old, with Moebius syndrome and 1,800 grams at birth. Detailed neonatal evaluation revealed hydrocephalus with bilate...

Extending umbral methods introduced by Di Nardo and Senato (2006b), in this paper we provide an unifying syntax for single and multivariate k-statistics, polykays and multivariate polykays. From a combinatorial point of view, we revisit the theory as exposed by Stuart and Ord (1987) taking into account the Doubilet approach to symmetric functions. The Moebius function, occurring in the relation...

This paper is focused in some aspects of maternal exposure to misoprostol during perinatal period, and the abortive and teratogenesis effects on the fetus. The causes of malformations were revised, taking into account chemical, physical and environmental factors as well as the interaction between them. There are evidences that the practice of abortion tripled in Southern and Northeastern Brazil...

We obtain a class of particular solutions of a C(2,1) conformally invariant nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation by symmetry reduction. Using the subgroups of similitude group reduced ordinary differential equations of second order and their solutions by a singularity analysis are classified. In particular, it has been shown that, whenever they have the Painlevé property, they can be transformed to ...

Given a Moebius homeomorphism f:?X??Y between boundaries of proper, geodesically complete CAT(-1) spaces X,Y, we describe an extension f ^:X?Y f, called the circumcenter map which is constructed using circumcenters expanding sets. The ^ shown to coincide with (1,log2)-quasi-isometric in previous paper author, and locally 1/2-Holder continuous. When X,Y are complete, simply connected manifolds s...

Decorated vertex with 3-edged cells in 2D foams: exact solutions and properties. Abstract. The energy, area and excess energy of a decorated vertex in a 2D foam are calculated. The general shape of the vertex and its decoration are described analytically by a reference pattern mapped by a parametric Moebius transformation. A single parameter of control allows to describe, in a common framework,...