The position of hyoid bone and atlas vertebra in 29 established mouth breathers (17 boys and 12 girls) in the age group of 10-14 years were cephalometrically evaluated and compared with 23 nose breathers (11 boys and 12 girls). The children of both the groups were selected on the basis of history and clinical examination. The comparisons were made using univariate analysis for male and female g...

The rationale for this project is to evaluate the efficiency of a novel sonographic method for measurements of interosseous distances. The method utilizes a propagating ultrasonic beam through aqueous milieu which is directed as a jet into a drilled tract. We used a plastic model of human L5 vertebra and ex vivo specimen of L5 porcine vertebra and generated 2 mm in diameter tracts in vertebral ...

Balloon kyphoplasty has been shown to be safe in treatment of vertebral compression fractures refractory to conservative management. However, few reports have focused on lateral wedging of cemented vertebra after kyphoplasty. A 72-year-old woman with a T12 osteoporotic compression fracture underwent kyphoplasty using polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) via a bipedicular approach. The patient felt pai...

The lumbosacral region is of interest because of increased incidence of low back pain resulting from stress and strain. The lumbosacral spine supports and transmits weight of the body to the inferior extremity and thus plays an important role in posture. In lumbosacral transitional vertebra either the fifth lumbar vertebra may show assimilation to sacrum (sacralisation) or the first lumbar vert...

The hagfish, a group of extant jawless fish, are known to lack true vertebrae and, for this reason, have often been excluded from the group Vertebrata. However, it has yet to be conclusively shown whether hagfish lack all vertebra-like structures, and whether their somites follow developmental processes and patterning distinct from those in lampreys and gnathostomes. Here we report the presence...

We report a case of 29-year-old man diagnosed as a primary eosinophilic granuloma (EG) lesion of the seventh cervical vertebra. He had paresthesia on both arms, and grasping weakness for 10 days. Cervical magnetic resonance image (MRI) showed an enhancing mass with ventral epidural bulging and cord compression on the seventh cervical vertebra. Additionally, we performed spine series MRI, bone s...

Solitary plasmacytoma of bone is a rare malignant tumor mostly involving the axial skeleton. The tumor occurs in middle- aged or elderly people (mean age: 55 years) and has a high risk of progression to multiple myeloma. Radiotherapy is the preferred treatment for this disease. We report a case of recurrent solitary plasmacytoma of the fourth lumbar vertebra in a 35-year-old male. The patient s...

In this study, osseous tissue was examined in normal adult population that has inhabited areas by the Croatian Adriatic Sea. The most of such studies have shown that women are prone to lose bone connectedness, while men are predisposed to be a stronger constitution and they start with greater bone mass, though. Bone samples from two different anatomic sites were analyzed. The crista iliaca and ...

BACKGROUND Extra-adrenal paraganglioma of the retroperitoneum with metastasis to the vertebra is very rare. To our knowledge this is the first report of this kind of disease in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION Here, we present an oroginal case of paraganglioma of the retroperitoneum with metastasis to the abdominal vertebra in a 42-year-old female patient who was successfully treated by comp...

A creolefish, Paranthias colonus Hildebrand, with deformities in the spinal column, was captured at Isla Espíritu Santo, B.C.S., México (24o35’ N; 110o24’ W). The specimen is in the icthyological collection of the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR) in La Paz, B.C.S. (#CIB1300). The spinal column has v-shaped lardosis in two positions (Fig. 1). One starts at the vertebra ...