OBJECTIVE To investigate whether virtual autopsy with postmortem CT (PMCT) improves clinical diagnosis of the immediate cause of death. DESIGN Retrospective observational cohort study. INCLUSION CRITERIA inhospital and out-of-hospital deaths over the age of 1 year in whom virtual autopsy with PMCT and conventional autopsy were performed. EXCLUSION CRITERIA forensic cases, postmortal organ...

VACTERL association occurs in 1 10000- 40000 live births and is associated with vertebral defects, anal atresia, cardiac malformations, tracheoesophageal fistula, renal dysplasia limb defects. A 19-week-old male foetus antenatal diagnosis of foetal hydronephrosis on ultrasound the left kidney was medically terminated brought for autopsy. No other malformation reported scan. On autopsy, facial a...

The quest for robust, aff ordable, consistent methods for fi lling global health information gaps is familiar. But frequently the focus is on how the international community can extract population-based data, rather than how countries and communities can use robust methods to understand and act on their own health and disease burdens. This week, researchers are convening in Vancouver, Canada, f...

Objective: This is a review of our cases and published literature on cheiro-oral syndrome (COS), to better understand its localization, etiology and outcome. Methods: In addition to our database, we reviewed the medical database (including PUBMED, BIOSIS, EMBASE, and SCOPUS) and other sources, searched by the keyword of “cheiro-oral”. The defi nition of COS was a subjective or an objective sens...

male infertility is a distressingly common condition affecting about 1 in 20 of the male population. in a majority of the cases, the male partner produces sufficient numbers of spermatozoa to achieve fertilization but there are functional defects in these cells that prevent conception from occurring. in this study, the effects of wi-fi radiation on spermatogenesis, testes and testosterone of la...