ABSTRACT
Calvarial tuberculosis is rare presentation and has been reported in only about 0.01% of all patients with mycobacterial infections. Though rare, the incidence of Calvarial tuberculosis seems to be on the rise, especially in developing countries. We present three cases of Calvarial tuberculosis which were successfully managed at our Centre. All the cases occurred de novo in young, otherwise healthy individuals, hailing from good socio-economic backgrounds and without any past history or contact history with tuberculosis patients. We highlight the importance of keeping this diagnosis in mind in appropriate clinical situations as well as recommend the early commencement of optimal management to prevent serious neurologic complications & sequelae.
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Occipital Bone/surgery , Parietal Bone/surgery , Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular/surgery , Adolescent , Adult , Antitubercular Agents/therapeutic use , Female , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Male , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Treatment Outcome , Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular/drug therapy , Young AdultABSTRACT
We developed a wheelchair robot to support the movement of elderly people and specifically implemented two functions to enhance their intention to use it: speaking behavior to convey place/location related information and speed adjustment based on individual preferences. Our study examines how the evaluations of our wheelchair robot differ when compared with human caregivers and a conventional autonomous wheelchair without the two proposed functions in a moving support context. 28 senior citizens participated in the experiment to evaluate three different conditions. Our measurements consisted of questionnaire items and the coding of free-style interview results. Our experimental results revealed that elderly people evaluated our wheelchair robot higher than the wheelchair without the two functions and the human caregivers for some items.
