A 2-year-old boy presented with delayed motor skills and language since birth. Family history disclosed consanguineous parents. Examination showed global muscular hypotonia, optic atrophy, oculomotor apraxia, and normal head circumference. Brain MRI showed optic atrophy and macrocerebellum (figure). Laboratory tests revealed deficient activity of a-L-iduronidase in peripheral blood leukocytes a...

The clinical case report is a popular genre in medical writing. While authors and editors have debated the justification for the clinical case report, few have attempted to examine the long history of this genre in medical literature. By reviewing selected literature and presenting and discussing excerpts of clinical case reports from Egyptian antiquity to the 20th century, we illustrate the pr...

Studies at a university to a large degree involves passive, reproductive activities that often require little creative work by the students. Most study programs contain only few opportunities, apart from theses and seminars, to practice the independent writing of longer texts. However, this particular skill is of significant importance for a later scientific or industry carreer, for example for...

The objective of this study was to develop an online report writing activity that was a constructive and cooperative learning process for a course on traditional general physics experiments. Wiki, a CMC authoring tool, was used to construct the writing platform. Fifty-eight undergraduate students (33 men and 25 women), working in randomly assigned groups of 2 to 3 members, participated in this ...

Objectives: We report the first case of writing apraxia as the main presenting feature of a posterior communicating artery aneurysm. Cerebral aneurysm usually presents with visual impairment, nausea and vomiting, severe headache and loss of consciousness. Case report: A 58year-old man presented to the neurological department because of writing difficulty, which affected his work as an executive...

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