Recurrent mass hysteria in schoolchildren in Western Nepal.

Aim: The aim was to study the clinical presentation and factors contributing to "recurrent mass hysteria" among rural schoolgoing children.

Materials And Methods: A visit to a school in a remote hilly district of Puythan, Nepal, was carried out to assess students experiencing mass dissociative/conversion symptoms over a short period of time. There was a second incidence of "mass hysteria" on the day of visit.

Best Practice in Diagnostic Imaging after Blunt Force Trauma Injury to the Cervical Spine: A Systematic Review.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate best practice in evidence-based clinical examinations to determine the diagnostic efficacy of plain radiography, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a cervical spine injury after blunt force trauma.

Methods: A systematic review of recent literature was performed, with the intention of analysing only original research articles focusing on at least two imaging modalities or clinical decision guidelines in relation to blunt force trauma injuries involving the cervical spine. The search used the following databases: ProQuest Central, ScienceDirect, and Scopus.

Laparoscopic assisted anorectal pull through: Reformed techniques.

Aim: To assess the modifications in the technique of laparoscopic assisted anorectal pull through (LAARP) practiced at our institute and analyze the post operative outcome and associated complications.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study from January 2001 to May 2009 analyzing LAARP for high anorectal malformations.

Results: A total of 40 patients - 34 males and six females, in the age group of two months to six years were studied.

A new class of substituted 1,2,4-triazolo-1,3,4-thiadiazepines.

A series of 3-aryloxymethyl-(5-nitro-2-furyl)-6-phenyl-1,2,4- triazolo[3,4-b][1,3,4]thiadiazepine compounds have been synthesized recently by a new route. Reported here are the structures of two such compounds with para-substituted aryloxymethyl groups: one has a chloro group, 3-(4-chlorophenyl-oxymethyl)-8-(5-nitro-2-furyl)-6-phenyl-1,2,4- triazolo[3,4-b][1,3,4]thiadiazepine, C22H14C1N5O4S, TD1, and the other a methyl group, 3-(p-tolyloxy-methyl)-8-(5-nitro-2-furyl)-6-phenyl-1,2,4- triazolo-[3,4-b][1,3,4]thiadiazepine, C23H17N5O4S, TD7. The nitrofuryl and phenyl groups on the thiadiazepine ring are each found to adopt a similar conformation in the two structures, whereas the aryloxymethyl substituents on the triazole rings are conformationally different from each other.

Structural characteristics of diproline: a new crystal form of tBoc-Pro-Pro-OH.

The structure of a new crystalline form of tBoc-Pro-Pro-OH (C15 H24 N2 O5) has been determined. The crystals were monoclinic, P2(1), a = 14.667(5), b = 16.