Cerebellar infarction presenting as inner ear decompression sickness following scuba diving: a case report.

Introduction: Inner ear decompression sickness following scuba diving is not uncommon and the characteristic features of this disorder are acute peripheral vestibular syndrome, sometimes associated with cochlear signs, requiring urgent hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Cerebellar infarction can also mimic isolated peripheral vestibulopathy.

Case Report: The authors report the case of a 47-year-old man in good general health admitted with acute left vestibular dysfunction suggestive of inner ear decompression sickness 6 hours after scuba diving.

Delayed focal lipoatrophy after AS03-adjuvanted influenza A (H1N1) 2009 vaccine.

Intramuscular vaccination may lead to loss of subcutaneous fat resulting in skin depression at the site of injection. We report for the first time a delayed lipoatrophy after with AS03-adjuvanted influenza A (H1N1) 2009 vaccine. Inadequate administration into the adipose tissue may be causative.

Identification of the finishing technique of an early eighteenth century musical instrument using FTIR spectromicroscopy.

The study of varnishes from musical instruments presents the difficulty of analysing very thin layers of heterogeneous materials on samples most of which are generally brittle and difficult to prepare. Such study is crucial to the understanding of historical musical instrument varnishing practices since written sources before 1800 are very rare and not precise. Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and imaging methods were applied to identify the major chemical components within the build-up of the varnish layers on a cello made by one of the most prominent French violin-makers of the eighteenth century (Jacques Boquay, ca.