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A review of the literature, including two dermatology studies, indicates that patients prefer their physicians to wear white coats, not only for identification purposes but to build trust and confidence . This preference holds stable whether studies have addressed general practitioners, specialists, or dermatologists s...
Rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is characterised by a progressive, erosive polyarthritis, resulting in immune - mediated joint destruction and eventual disability.components of the immunoinflammatory response include acute phase proteins, auto - reactive t cells, b cells, and their respective inflammatory mediators . The con...
The goal of endodontic treatment is to eliminate diseased pulpal tissue and to create an environment that allows periapical tissues to heal and to prevent the development of apical periodontitis . Affected teeth are retained by removing diseased tissue, sealing the canal system, and subsequently restoring the coronal t...
Interleukin-6 (il-6), initially designated as a b cell differentiation factor 1, is a representative cytokine featuring redundancy and pleiotropic activity 2 - 4 . In the early phase of infectious inflammation, il-6 is produced by monocytes and macrophages immediately after the stimulation of toll - like receptors (tlr...
While there have been many clinical limitations to the placement of implants cited in literature one of the strongest arguments against the willingness of patients towards the placement of dental implants has been the prohibitive cost of these implants . In the past few years however there have been many reports in lit...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is now the third leading cause of death in the united states.1 in 2007, the economic burden of copd in the us was $42.6 billion in health care costs and lost productivity.2 although different pharmacological treatments have shown improvement in lung functions in general copd...
The et2ds is a sample of men and women aged 6075 years with type 2 diabetes . The subjects were randomly selected by sex and 5-year age bands from the comprehensive lothian diabetes register (ldr) of people with type 2 diabetes living in lothian, scotland . A sample size of 1,000 was targeted to detect associations bet...
Species of the genus fusarium are among the most destructive fungal plant pathogens known and are responsible for major yield losses during cultivation of wheat, maize, barley, and soybeans . Many species of fusarium produce mycotoxins as they grow parasitically within the plant, and ingestion of contaminated grain and...
Influenza remains a serious health threat and a future pandemic risk, as evidenced by recent outbreaks of h5n1 and h1n1 . These influenza type a strains, which cause acute upper respiratory tract infections with high morbidity and mortality, possess three viral - coat proteins: hemagglutinin (ha), neuraminidase (na), a...
Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection transmitted from animals to humans by direct contact through skin or mucous membranes with urine and other fluids from domestic or wild infected animals . The infection is usually present all year round, but it is more frequent during the rainy season, for the bacteria may survive...
It is well known that causes of chronic pancreatitis include alcohol, genetic or metabolic disorders, pancreato - biliary abnormalities and drugs . Since sarles et al.1 reported chronic pancreatitis associated with hypergammaglobulinemia and lymphocytic infiltration with fibrosis of the pancreas in 1961, autoimmune mec...
A five - year - old girl suffered a traumatic injury (left condylar dislocation) during a regular dental appointment . She had no history of other diseases or trauma on the face that could lead to a misinterpretation of the diagnosis before and after the condyle dislocation . At 10 years of age she began to progressive...
A gastrointestinal duplication is defined as a spherical structure, with a muscular coat lined by a mucous membrane . They can be found anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract, from the base of the tongue to the anus, most commonly occurring in the ileum (35%). Gastric duplication cysts are a rare phenomenon and account...
Plasma membrane - located trail - r1/r2 induce both cell death and non - apoptotic signaling pathways.tumor cells show elevated intracellular levels of trail - r1/r2.nuclear trail - r2 interacts with the microprocessor complex, inhibits let-7 maturation and enhances tumor cell proliferation . Plasma membrane - located ...
What is less appreciated is that, according to the us renal data system, 217 hospitalisations per 1,000 patient - years are attributed to congestive heart failure (chf). In the general population, single measurements of brain natriuretic peptide (bnp) and its n - terminal fragment (nt - probnp) accurately discriminate ...
The recognition, diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the neurovascular bundle at the thoracic outlet have been clarified in recent years . The whole subject has been usually grouped together under the name of thoracic outlet syndrome (tos) which is considered as one of the most controversial clinical entiti...
Epidural steroid injections are commonly performed procedures in medicine by many specialties including orthopedics . Normal inadvertent injection of potassium chloride (kcl) during anesthesia procedures is reported by many anesthesiologists; however, to the best of our knowledge, it has not been reported by orthopedic...
The oxidative phosphorylation (oxphos) system is unique among fundamental metabolic pathways in animals (aside from maintenance and gene expression of mitochondria) in that functional oxphos complexes are composed of subunits encoded by two different genomes . The different hereditary modes of the mitochondrial (mt) an...
Pain continues to be a clinical problem difficult to solve for a significant proportion of patients due to the incomplete knowledge we have about the adaptive changes that occur in the neural substrates of the nociceptive system and glial cells in response to episodes of persistent pain . These changes primarily are as...
Ventilator - associated pneumonia (vap) develops commonly in mechanically ventilated patients and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the intensive care unit . In a study published in this issue of critical care, pelekanou and colleagues investigated the differences in innate and adaptive immune responses in...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) is the one of the most common malignant cancers that occurs in worldwide . Hcc is the third most common cause of cancer - related death in south korea, where the death rate from hcc is 22.5/100,000 of the population.1 although recent progress in therapeutic modalities for hcc has improved...
Secondary amyloidosis can occur as a complication of chronic systemic inflammatory and infectious diseases . Until now there has been no report of secondary amyloidosis associated with ms . We report herein a case of renal biopsy - proven secondary amyloidosis in a patient with ms . A 41-year - old woman with ms was ho...
Various pathological conditions such as os odontoideum, rotatorysubluxation, dens fracture or trauma, rheumatoid arthritis, and congenital or acquired ligamentous instability can affect the atlantoaxial instability1). Gallie reported atlantoaxial arthrodesis by posterior wiring and autologous grafting9), and magerl and...
The first occurred in april may 2003 in 2 communities (vila sanso, 140 inhabitants, and vila paulo fontelles, 835 inhabitants).in the municipality of parauapebas (64s, 4954w). August 2004 in 1 community (vila tapara, 2,000 inhabitants) in the municipality of porto de moz (145s, 5214w) (figure 1). Map of brazil showing ...
Andropause is a condition of decreasing testosterone in men that usually begins to occur at about 40 years of age . Many men also find it difficult to acknowledge there may be a problem by refusing to even talk about the symptoms . Ignorance and fear of the andropause condition abounds in the general public and even am...
Though metastases are generally widely disseminated, a minimal metastatic state has been recently recognized, with a distinct natural history and an intermediate prognosis between that of localized and metastatic disease . In 1995, s. hellman and r. weichselbaum first coined the term oligometastases: the definition of ...
The sacroiliac joint is a frequent source of pain in patients presenting with low back or buttock pain.113 in a recent study by sembrano and polly, 200 consecutive new patients were examined in a spine clinic with a chief complaint of low back pain and no prior history of spine, sacroiliac joint, or hip surgery.12 sixt...
Cystic fibrosis (cf) is a multifaceted autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in the cf transmembrane conductance regulator (cftr) gene . Although its pulmonary manifestations are responsible for the major morbidity and mortality associated with the disease, cf is also characterised by a multitude of clinical ...
, females can gain direct benefits (arnqvist and nilsson 2000), such as replenishment of depleted sperm stores, access to male - held resources, food and chemical gifts (vahed 1998). Females that have already mated may trade - up by mating with or selectively using sperm from successively more genetically beneficial ma...
The wide varieties of rare intraocular and orbital neoplasms differ in presentation in the pediatric population when compared to these same lesions in adults . While most pediatric ophthalmic tumors are benign, they may have a significant impact on vision and may result in significant morbidity and mortality . Some con...
A descriptive research design was employed in the present study to assess the problems faced by wives of alcoholics and coping strategies employed by them . A total of thirty alcoholic clients' wives who accompanied their husbands' who were seeking treatment in de - addiction and treatment center opd, pgimer, a tertiar...
(see related article by vanholder and glorieux . The intestine and the kidneys: a bad marriage can be hazardous.
Esophageal cancer accounts for 1% of all cancers and it is the seventh - most frequent cause of cancer - related deaths . The prognosis in this cancer is poor because in 50% of affected patients the diagnosis is made at an inoperable stage of the disease . Local symptoms of esophageal cancer include dysphagia, odynopha...
Swallowing is a series of coordinated processes in which food boluses move from the mouth to the stomach . The normal process of swallowing includes the oral preparatory phase in which food is chewed; the oral phase in which food is moved to the rear of the oral cavity and swallowing starts; the pharyngeal phase in whi...
Native woody species often demonstrate inherited latitudinal variation in the timing of growth cessation and cold hardiness in response to the latitudinal gradient in temperature (pauley and perry 1954; howe et al . Can an introduced species develop such a pattern in a century or two (weber and schmid 1998)? Developmen...
In 1962, luft, et al . Made a suggestion of mitochondria as an intracellular organelle related to human diseases . They supported the idea with evidence of mitochondrial function abnormality observed in a hypermetabolic patient . Later reports also showed respiratory chain dysfunctions in patients with encephalomyopath...
Electroporation, a nonthermal phenomenon, is used to enhance the permeability of biological cells and tissues [14]. Here, an attempt has been made to study the electric field's effect on tumor tissues thereby leading to the efficacy of electroporation . Electroporation involves the rapid structural rearrangement of mem...
Deterioration of renal function with tacrolimus (fk506) therapy has been widely reported in adult patients with normal renal function who underwent liver transplantation [1, 2]. A striped pattern of medullary ray fibrosis (also called linear fibrosis) has been described in the kidneys of patients undergoing long - term...
Previous articles (mcbride et al ., 1992, 1996; millar et al ., 1996; goping et al ., 1998) these include isolation of rat heart mitochondria, transcription - translation of plasmids encoding vdac and preornithine carbamyl transferase (poct), and import of s - labeled translation products into mitochondria in vitro . R...
Heart rate, perhaps the most commonly measured vital sign in clinical practice, is a key determinant of myocardial metabolism and cardiac output . Tachycardia, conventionally defined as an atrial and/or ventricular rate of> 100 beats per minute (bpm) has an arbitrary and debated definition . Nevertheless, tachycardia c...
Between october 1996 and february 1998, a prospective patient cohort of 32 consecutive patients underwent single - level alif . Surgical intervention was planned only after the persistence of pain for more than 6 months despite conservative treatment . Were body mass index between 20 and 35 and age between 18 and 65 ye...
Painful legs and moving toes (plmt) is a rare syndrome characterized by spontaneous movements of a single or all digits and pain in one or both lower extremities123). The largest case series identified 76 patients during an 18-year period2), and only one pediatric case has been reported4). We report the first adolescen...
A 21-year - old man was referred to us with a 1-year history of low back pain . The pain evolved insidiously and progressed over time and was incompatible with comfortable everyday life . The pain was worse in the standing position and with flexion and extension and less in sitting and supine status . He remarked on bi...
Ims - microscopy fusion is demonstrated through three different applications: (i) predicting ion distributions to a spatial resolution that exceeds that of the measured ion images (sharpening); (ii) predicting ion distributions in tissue areas that were not measured by ims (out - of - sample prediction); and (iii) disc...
Heart rate recovery (hrr) is the rate at which heart rate declines from the end of exercise to a predetermined time point during recovery, typically one minute after exercise [1, 2]. After submaximal exercise, the withdrawal from sympathetic activity typically takes place 30 seconds into recovery [2, 4]. In contrast, i...
Adenovirus (ad) belongs to a family of nonenveloped icosahedral viruses containing a double - stranded dna genome, adenoviridae, and genus mastadenovirus . There are 53 human ad serotypes divided into seven subgroups (a to g) based on immunologic, biologic, and biochemical characteristics . Among these, viruses in grou...
Chinese food and soups contain monosodium glutamate (msg) as the main addictive ingredient . A sensitive individual may suffer from headache, giddiness, sweating, abdominal pain, and urticaria within a few hours of consumption of msg . Angioedema may be delayed up to 816 h after the consumption of msg and it may persis...
Children <3 years of age attending two health centers, one public reference hospital (joao alves), and a private hospital in aracaju were invited to participate in our study during april and may 2002 . These months correspond to the beginning of the rainy season, when most cases of bronchiolitis occur . The health cent...
Placement of fixed orthodontic appliances usually colonizes streptococcus mutans, and enhances the risk of dental caries. [13] fluoride - releasing bonding materials for bonding the brackets showed almost no demineralization inhibiting effect . Buyukilmaz and ogaard in an earlier study suggested the combined use of ant...
Flagellate literally means to whip (someone), either as a religious discipline or for sexual gratification according to oxford dictionary . Flagellate dermatitis or toxicoderma presents with very characteristic linear wheal like skin manifestations and is often associated with shiitake mushroom (lentinus edodes). We re...
Following institutional review board approval, we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of all patients who underwent endovascular treatment for symptomatic atherosclerotic intracranial stenosis between january 2003 and december 2014 performed at king faisal specialist hospital and research center, jeddah, kingd...
Mineral trioxide aggregate (mta) is a biocompatible material with high sealing ability which has been used for various purposes in endodontics, including root end filling, sealing of perforations, treatment of teeth with open apices, and as a pulp capping agent [13]. The color of original mta (grey mta or gmta) was gre...
Protein kinase ck2 is a pleiotropic, ubiquitous and intrinsically active eukaryotic ser / thr protein kinase that is overexpressed in various cancer types . In humans, ck2 forms a heterotetrameric complex (2/2) consisting of two catalytic subunits (ck2 or) attached to a dimer of regulatory subunits (ck2 or 2). The uniq...
Difficulty in speech discrimination, particularly in challenging auditory situations such as noisy places and/or when attempting to trace fast speech, is the most common complaint among the elderly . This difficulty is often attributed to reduced peripheral hearing sensitivity in the elderly (1,2). There is evidence th...
Stent thrombosis is one of the most fatal complications of percutaneous coronary intervention (pci). Even with optimal medical treatment after drug eluting stent or bare metal stent (bms) insertion, about 0.5 - 1% of patients experience acute, subacute, late, or very late stent thrombosis with a mortality rate as high ...
The ability to differentiate force plays an important role not only in daily life activity (e.g., grasping a fragile object), but also in sports, where the appropriate sense of force often determines the accuracy task . When developing strategies to prepare athletes for effort, measures to improve movement control are ...
Peripheral arterial disease and venous disease often coexist and they have common risk factors . If virchow s triad is accepted as a basis for the development of venous thrombosis, peripheral vascular disease has a number of characteristics which are likely to promote venous thrombosis . First, compared to normal subje...
It is also called otospongiosis as it is characterised by replacement of the normal ivory - like enchondral bone by spongy vascular bone . Patients typically present in the 2nd- 4th decades of life with conductive hearing loss (chl), sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) or mixed hearing loss (mhl) and/or tinnitus . The di...
The pathogenic events taking place on the surface of medical devices are primarily associated with the presence of microorganisms and their biofilms [1, 2]. A biofilm is an intricate community of microorganisms embedded in a polysaccharide matrix, capable of attaching onto different kinds of surfaces developing a hard ...
A life in science is not a journey you take alone . At all stages, mentors are key . No one in my family had ever been to university, let alone undertaken a ph.d . It was a female high school teacher who encouraged me to set my sights high and apply to oxford university for undergraduate studies, and it was the sister ...
The transcriptome of medullary stromal cells of patients suffering from primary myelofibrosis was studied by agilent oligo microarray technology . The primary myelofibrosis is a chronic myeloproliferative syndrome . To invest the role of bone marrow stroma in the pathophysiology of this disease, we isolated primary cul...
The fact that the majority of pre - mrnas are spliced while they are still being transcribed has led to the proposal that local chromatin structure and histone modifications may play direct roles in regulating splicing . Indeed, several studies have shown that specific histone modifications can affect the association o...
Apoptosis, a distinct form of cell death, is at the heart of both mechanical and molecular mechanisms of cardiomyocyte loss during ischemia . After mi, there is heightened apoptosis in the peri - infarct and noninfarcted myocardium, and this coincides with increased left ventricular diameter and decreased cardiac funct...
Brachytherapy has been a time tested and indispensable modality of treatment for a variety of cancers for more than a century . Time and again it has been proven that brachytherapy independently improves survival [1, 2] and exclusion of brachytherapy from the management of some cancers can be detrimental [2, 3]. The da...
The hiv / aids epidemic has become the world's most destructive epidemics recorded in history . The number of people living with hiv worldwide was estimated to be 33.4 million . Sub - sahara africa accounts for 22.4 million and remains the region most heavily affected by hiv with an adult prevalence rate of over 15% in...
Transesophageal echocardiography (0), illustrating multiple round, oval, irregular, and well - demarcated masses on the anterior leaflet of the tricuspid valve http://jthc.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jthc/article/view/698/417 transesophageal echocardiography (139), demonstrating multiple round, oval masses with a small stalk ...
Periacetabular osteolysis is a major complication following total hip arthroplasty and can be a cause of component loosening and periprosthetic fractures 123). Although osteolysis through polyethylene wear particles can increase the morbidity and compromise revision surgery, patients often remain clinically asymptomati...
Cereal seeds must meet several quality criteria, in particular good germinative potency (85% after 8 days) and sanitary state (absence of claviceps purpurea). More generally, low contamination from fungi such as fusarium, septoria, or alternaria is advisable to obtain good performance after seeding . Moreover, fungal c...
Obesity is a growing problem in the united states over the past 20 years with the prevalence remaining high despite new regulations and interventions implemented by the u.s . Department of health and human services, the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc), the institute of medicine, and the u.s . Results f...
Due to the shortage of deceased donor organs, living donor liver transplantation (ldlt) has become an established treatment modality for patients with acute and chronic liver disease . The first successful pediatric ldlt, using a left lateral section graft from a mother to her son, was performed in brisbane, australia ...
C57bl/6 (b6) mice and their ly-5.2 congenic variant (b6.ly-5.2) were purchased from the national cancer institute animal facility (frederick, md). I / ii deficient mice on a b6 background (12th backcross, ci / ii) were purchased from taconic farms . The b6 thy-1 congenic variant strain, b6.plthy-1 cy, as well as the mi...
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (bph) is a prevalent disorder among older men and has received more attention as the average human lifespan has increased . In korea, the prevalence of clinical prostatic hyperplasia was reported to range from 10.6% to 31% in men over 50 years of age, with an age - related increase . The me...
A.t ., a 43-year - old nigerian lady, presented to the eye clinic of the university college hospital, ibadan with gradual blurring of vision in both eyes for 4 years . Ocular examination showed unaided visual acuity of 6/12 ou corrected to 6/9 in both eyes . Dilated fundoscopy showed a well circumscribed cystic fovea l...
The vulnerability of elderly hospital patients is characterised by simultaneously occurring somatic, psychological, and social problems, which may result in problems in cognitive functioning, mood, behaviour, activities of daily life, and, consequently, in declining quality of life . First, the choices of nursing inter...
Storage and biochemical analyses of post - mortem human brain samples and transmission studies to mice were performed with written informed consent from patients with capacity to give consent . Where patients were unable to give informed consent, assent was obtained from their relatives in accordance with uk legislatio...
Thermoplastic obturation techniques have the potential to produce a complete filling of root canal space, including irregularities and lateral canals . Several techniques have been proposed to obtain optimal adherence of gutta - percha (gp) to root canal walls to minimize microbial leakage and to ensure treatment succe...
Noonan syndrome is an autosomal dominant, multisystem disorder with heart defects, cerebrovascular abnormalities, short stature with delayed puberty, cryptorchidism, and delayed language1). Autoimmune thyroiditis has been reported in some literatures however thyroiditis with hypothyroidism is even less frequent in noon...
The fontan procedure, which functionally separates pulmonary and systemic circulation, is the most common approach to singleventricle palliation . As a result of this procedure, cyanosis and ventricular volume overload are alleviated at the expense of elevated systemic venous pressure and limited stroke volume augmenta...
The insulin - like growth factor 2 gene (igf2) is an imprinted gene, paternally expressed and encodes for the insulin - like growth factor ii peptide [1, 2]. In mice the igf2 gene has five promoters, from which three main transcripts, a placenta specific transcript and a newly described mesoderm - specific transcript, ...
Dual malignancy in young adults is a rare entity . Of all well - differentiated thyroid carcinoma patients, 5% are familial . Majority familial thyroid cancer are nonmedullary familial thyroid cancer, and have been shown to be present in familial cancer syndromes such as familial adenomatous polyposis, cowden syndrome,...
Chronic viral hepatitis c is one of the most serious chronic infections affecting 170 million people worldwide . In europe the prevalence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is also relatively high in latvia . Antibodies are found in 2.4% of the population, with hcv - rna prevalence of 1.7% of general population . The...
Research on the maintenance of osseointegration under forces transmitted by occlusal load is as important as the study of the initial process of bone formation in different implant surfaces . 2002), in a literature review of the contributing factors to early peri - implant bone loss, pointed to occlusal overload as the...
During childhood, anemia is one of the most frequently seen intractable health concern that has both social and economic implications all around the world . Who estimates that almost one - third of the world s population is anemic, most of which are due to iron deficiency (1). Iron deficiency anemia (ida) compromises 9...
The necessity of oxygen comes from its role in aerobic respiration, a process of extracting energy from food that is approximately 19 times more efficient than its anaerobic counterpart . In eukaryotes, aerobic respiration is carried out in the mitochondria (descendant of an aerobically respiring bacterium) by a series...
The chemical industry is nowadays dependent on fossil resources such as oil, coal, and gas.1 however, a longterm outlook predicts biomass to become a main carbon source for chemical manufacture . Therefore, numerous investigations are now focused on the efficient valorization of biomass . Given that carbohydrates repre...
Under the new naming system the salmonella enterica serovar gallinarum is divided into biovar gallinarum (s. gallinarum) and pullorum (s. pullorum), which are identified to cause fowl typhoid and pullorum disease in poultry, respectively . While fowl typhoid is a disease of mature birds, pullorum causes mortality of em...
The growing number of aged people in western countries carries with it an increase in age - related disorders . Among these, alzheimer s disease (ad) is the most serious because of its epidemiologic, economic, and social impact . For instance, in italy, families are the main source of care, providing daily assistance t...
Peritoneal dissemination of hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) occurs rarely and is usually considered a terminal stage . Dissemination of hcc was shown along the needle biopsy tract to the abdominal wall and by rupture of hcc and as the consequence of cancer peritonitis by tumor recurrence . It should be considered that n...
This is an retrospective analysis of 53 consecutive tscc patients who underwent surgical treatment of their primary tonsil lesions with simultaneous neck dissection between january 2000 and august 2008 at the ilsong memorial institute of head and neck cancer, hallym university medical center, seoul, korea . Inclusion c...
For decades, joint replacement has been a procedure with major impact on the quality of life in elderly patients with joint degenerative diseases or traumatic injuries . Unfortunately, some patients develop symptoms after surgical intervention . In the majority of patients, aseptic loosening due to biochemical reaction...
The menopausal stage of a woman's life may bring a number of changes, especially with regard to her family life, relationships, and work and financial status . During the menopausal transition, vasomotor symptoms such as hot flushes occur due to hormonal fluctuations . Decreased estrogen levels in tissues of the genito...
In india, the prevalence of inborn errors of metabolism is one in 2497 newborns and alkaptonuria have incidence of about 1/250, 000 . A delay in diagnosis and treatment of this disease can result in arthritis and ochronosis (darkening of the tissues) due to the slow accumulation of the dark polymer of homogentisic acid...
Aspirin and other agents characterized as nonsteroidal anti - inflammatory drugs (nsaids) are designed primarily to decrease pain and inflammation . The molecular basis for actions of nsaids is believed to be their ability to inhibit cyclooxygenase (cox) activity and block the production of prostaglandins . Among nsaid...
Many studies have shed insight on particular trends in the number and morphology of roots of mandibular premolar and molars amongst different races,1 and information regarding the number of roots and shape is important for dental procedures such as surgical extractions, periodontal treatments, orthodontic movements, an...
Pyogenic granuloma is an excessive proliferation of granulation tissue that usually develops after minor trauma or surgery . The objective of our report is to describe the clinicopathological feature of this rare disease and give insight on clinical features that help in the diagnosis . This report presents a case of a...
Mullerian duct anomalies (mda), though rare, can be a treatable cause of pelvic pain and infertility . The spectrum of mullerian duct anomalies is a continuum rather than distinct entities, and some complex anomalies have features of more than one class . Since there are no precise clinical or imaging criteria to enabl...
Both the palmar grasp reflex and the plantar grasp reflex are very primitive in the sense that they can be elicited in all normal preterm infants at as early as 25 weeks of postconceptional age (pca). During routine ultrasound examination, fetal palmar reflex grasping of the umbilical cord has been repeatedly observed,...
A healthy 60-year - old male with a 30 pack - year smoking history presented with 2 months of right eye pain, headache, and photophobia . His ocular history was significant for pterygium excision with mitomycin c in the right eye 5 years ago as well infiltrative infectious scleritis secondary to enterobacter cloacae an...