BACKGROUND Detection of choroidal inflammation in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease is still a challenge. Progression to sunset glow fundus has been observed despite apparent good clinical control of inflammation. Indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) permits choroid inflammation detection, though it is invasive, time consuming, and costly. The purpose of the present study is to report a sign i...

Osmotic deflation of vesicles enclosing two liquid phases can lead to bulging of one of the phases from the vesicle body. This budding process is preceded by a complete to partial wetting transition of one of the liquid phases on the membrane and depends on the membrane tensions and the tension of the interface between the enclosed liquid phases. These tensions dominate in different morphology ...

CLINCAL HISTORY The patient is a 12-year-old Mexican female 3 years postoperative ovarian tumor resection with 1 month of radiation therapy in Mexico. Diagnosis of ovarian tumor was made when she presented with abdominal pain and weight loss. She did well after therapy until 6 months prior to admission, when she developed crampy lower-abdominal pain and epigastric fullness after meals. She had ...

Hydroforming is one kind of plasticity working, which can be used to increase the diameter, to change the geometry, or to expand the outer walls of cylindrical shells or tubes. The forming principle of hydroforming is by using a die to constrain the outer geometry of a tube and then pumping high pressure oil into the inner tube, so as to force part of the tube to flow into the die cavity. In or...

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has several clinical manifestations on the base of bone marrow infiltration and the extent of extra medullary involvement. Anterior chest wall bulging as an initial presentation is rare. The aim of this case report study is to present a 3.5 year-old-boy presented with anterior chest wall bulging without history of trauma since 1 month ago. Tc99m-MDP bone scan ...

Results of a geometrically nonlinear finite element parametric study to determine curvature correction factors or “bulging factors” that account for increased crack-tip stresses due to curvature for longitudinal and circumferential cracks in unstiffened cylindrical shells subjected to combined loads are presented. Nondimensional parameters varied in the study include the shell curvature paramet...