BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Qualitative radiologic MR imaging review affords limited differentiation among types of pediatric posterior fossa brain tumors and cannot detect histologic or molecular subtypes, which could help to stratify treatment. This study aimed to improve current posterior fossa discrimination of histologic tumor type by using support vector machine classifiers on quantitative MR ...

Pain of the right iliac fossa in young girls can relate to several pathologies of the gastrointestinal and genitor-urinary tract. On the other hand, lymphangiomas in the peritoneal cavity are extremely rare. We report the case of a young woman with pain in the right iliac fossa caused by a cystic lymphangioma. A 17-year-old caucasian female patient presented with abdominal pain in the right ili...

Normally, the popliteal fossa contains popliteal vessels, tibial and common peroneal nerves. An occurrence of muscle in the popliteal fossa is very rare. During routine dissection classes for medical undergraduates, an anomalous muscle in the popliteal fossa was encountered. The muscle was originating from the thick fascia around the popliteal vessels. It was getting inserted to the medial head...

BACKGROUND Aneurysmal bone cysts are relatively uncommon in the facial skeleton. These usually affect the mandible but origin from the coronoid process is even rarer. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a coronoid process aneurysmal bone cyst presenting as temporal fossa swelling. CASE PRESENTATION A 17 year old boy presented with a progressively increasing swelli...

The aim of this long-term study was to assess the amount and direction of glenoid fossa displacement, condylar growth, and "effective" temporomandibular joint (TMJ) changes (= the sum of glenoid fossa displacement, condylar growth, and condylar position changes in the fossa) in 3 vertical facial-type groups of Class II Division 1 malocclusions treated with the Herbst appliance. A comparison was...

There are 3 approaches for the surgical treatment of acoustic neuroma namely: 1) translabyrinthine approach 2) retrosigmoid approach, and 3) middle fossa approach. The middle fossa approach was used for the removal of small or intracanalicular tumors, with or without serviceable hearing. The first case presented with severe right sensorineural hearing loss and facial palsy; the second with prog...

Acute neonatal posterior fossa subdural hematoma has been documented 13 times since 1940. Typically it occurs in a full-term infant whose delivery is complicated by forceps extraction or breech delivery. Lethargy, irritability, and respiratory irregularities occur within the first few days of life. Tense anterior fontanels and increasing head circumference result from progressive hydrocephalus....

We investigated the correlation between projection of the ear and the antihelical folding angle to clarify which portion of the antihelix should be corrected in reconstruction of prominent ears using computed tomograms of 15 ears in 11 patients with fractures of the facial bones. The angle of the scaphotriangular fossa indicating the superior crus, cymba conchae-triangular fossa angle indicatin...

Glomus tympanicum and jugulare tumors arise within the middle ear and jugular fossa, respectively, but often extend into the adjacent areas of the skull base and posterior fossa. Multiple branches of the external carotid, internal carotid, and vertebral arteries may contribute to the vascular supply of these lesions. The arteriograms of 15 patients with glomus tumors were correlated with the su...

OBJECTIVE The first aim of this study was to compare the microbiota of different locations (pus, tonsillar fossa, blood) in peritonsillar abscess (PTA) patients in order to optimize the sampling scheme. The second aim was to estimate the occurrence of tonsillitis episodes and macroscopic oropharyngeal signs characteristic of recurrent tonsillitis in PTA patients. METHODS The study group consi...