A new French coding system of clinical procedures, the Classification Commune Des Actes Medicaux (CCAM), has been developed at the turn of the millennium (between 1996 and 2001). Two methodologies were used: a traditional domain-experts consensus method, and an artificial-intelligence-based semantic representation. An economic evaluation of clinical procedures was also undertaken for the rating...

CCAM is an access method for general networks. It uses connectivity clustering. The nodes of the network are assigned to disk pages via the graph partitioning approach to maximize the CRR, i.e., the chances that a pair of connected nodes are allocated to a common page of the le. CCAM supports the operations of insert, delete, create, and nd as well as the new operations, get-A-successor and get...

Congenital cystic disease of the lung and mediastinum encompasses a continuum of entities, and a histological overlap of many of these anomalies is acknowledged. Moreover, it is possible for different lesions to coexist in the same patient. Careful evaluation prior to surgical resection will alert the surgeon to the possible presence of multiple lesions in one patient.

1 PDT Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata 3 Professor, Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata 4 Professor & Head, Department of Cardiac Anaesth...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this essay is to illustrate the imaging findings of congenital cystic lesions of the biliary tract. CONCLUSION Congenital cystic lesions of the biliary tract include ductal plate malformations and choledochal cysts and can be recognized with characteristic imaging findings and basic knowledge of the embryologic development of the biliary tree.

AIM To assess reasons for higher levels of anxiety generated by prenatal counselling of a condition with good outcome such as cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM) of the lung compared to a life-threatening malformation such as congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). MATERIALS AND METHODS The Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S) was used to measure anxiety in two groups of mothe...

Cystic lymphangioma is a congenital cystic malformation that occurs mostly in children. While it is mainly found in the cervix, cases in the chest wall are very rare. We report a case of cystic lymphangioma found in the chest wall of a 2-month-old girl. The patient was noted to have a tumor in the left chest wall at birth. Since it gradually increased in size, the patient was referred to our de...

Pediatric respiratory disease related to congenital and genetic etiologies are important topics found on the USMLE. Congenital disease to be aware of include Diaphragmatic hernias, congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation, surfactant deficiency, pediatric pulmonary hypoplasia, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Genetic disease to be aware of include cystic fibrosis, alpha 1 antitrypsin, and prim...