Congenital cerebriform intradermal nevus presenting as cutis verticis gyrata: a case report

Cerebriform intradermal nevus is a rare disorder characterised by development of folds and furrows on the scalp, giving it a convoluted appearance resembling surface of the brain. There are two main forms of CVG, primary and secondary. Secondary form may appear at any age and is usually secondary to causes such as tumors, Cerebriform intradermal nevus (CIN), neurofibromas or amyloidosis. There is high risk of development of malignant melanoma in patients of CIN presenting as CVG. Hence early diagnosis and treatment is important

L’Unesco et le culturellement correct

On a beaucoup débattu sur la politique de la culture, mais la façon dont s’articulent bureaucratiquement les représentations spécifiques de cette dernière n’a guère retenu l’attention. Cet article, issu d’un travail ethnographique de terrain, présente un double point de vue sur la bureaucratie. D’une part, il étudie les conséquences de celle-ci au sein de l’Unesco, qui met en avant une perspective inclusive de la culture pour « nous les peuples des Nations unies », avec toutefois des limites à la tolérance dans cette idéologie. D’autre part, il se penche sur l’adaptation à la bureaucratie d’un point de vue social et pragmatique ainsi que sur les mots clés de l’Unesco dotés d’autorité institutionnelle dans la pratique quotidienne.There has been much debate on the politics of culture, but the bureaucratic articulation of specific representations of culture has not received much attention. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article presents a double take on bureaucracy. On the one hand, we focus on the outcome of UNESCO’s bureaucracy: UNESCO promotes an all-inclusive culture perspective for “We the Peoples of the United Nations”, but there are limits to tolerance in this culture ideology. On the other hand, we focus on the social and pragmatic adaptation to the bureaucratic field and towards UNESCO’s keywords, as they are embedded with institutional authority in everyday practice

Fully automatic computation of the shape of a micro-catheter

Volume representations of blood vessels acquired by 3D rotational angiography are very suitable for diagnosing an aneurysm. If the aneurysm volume is known, a physician may fill an aneurysm via a catheter. To guide this catheter, a micro-catheter, selected and pre-molded for easy entry into the aneurysm, is moved through the vessels. We developed a method to compute the corridor through the vessels and from this corridor the shape of the micro-catheter. This method has been tested on 28 clinical volume data-sets