The “Sinking” STONE

The sinking bone syndrome?

Bone resorption is a known complication of cranioplasty after decompressive craniectomy (DC). A peculiar group of insidious, progressive, invalidating neurological symptoms was observed in patients presenting with incomplete resorption and abnormal mobility of the re-implanted bone. Such symptoms were similar, but with time more severe, to those encountered in the sinking flap syndrome. Are we ...

Sinking treasure

social engagements. With the Bologna system, everything is fitted to match a 40 hour per week work schedule for the entire year allowing only for 6 weeks of holiday and one week of illness. Many students are now protesting against this reduction of university to a school-like system. Students also protested against tuition fees, which have been introduced only recently in a break with a long tr...

That sinking feeling.

Y ou are doing a breast reduction. You have chosen a vertical flap and inverted T incision. You like the vertical reduction and medial pedicle because there is a shorter incision , but you think there will be too much skin excess, so it will be better to excise it now. For some reason, every time you do the inferior pedicle the base of the pedicle becomes thin and narrow. This worries you. You ...

That sinking feeling.

Plankton sinking and turbulence

To overcome sinking, plankton have devised various types of strategies. One is swimming, that is, an active, energy-consuming self-propulsion than can oppose gravitational sinking. Other phytoplankters can modify their buoyancy, becoming, at least for some time, positively buoyant. Others can exploit the turbulence in the mixed layer, using it to stay suspended for longer times. This latter opt...