“Ping-pong” fractures (PPF) are depressed skull fractures typical of newborns. PPF usually result from head injury and, rarely, may cause severe long-term neurological sequelae. The management of PPF is still controversial. The goal of this paper is to present a case of “spontaneous” ping-pong fracture and to review the pertinent literature of the last 20 years. We report on a newborn who prese...

Eighty-eight sets of skull X-rays, each showing an unequivocal skull fracture, were examined by a radiologist under controlled conditions to see if fractures would be missed if only one lateral view was included in the X-ray series. The fracture sets were mixed at random with four times as many normal sets of skull X-rays and each fracture set was examined on two occasions, once with one latera...

Some cases of infant skull fracture fall under the category of forensic study where it is not obvious whether the head trauma happened due to an accident or abuse. To be able to determine the cause of the head trauma with sufficient accuracy, biomechanical analysis using finite element modeling of the infant cranium has been established. By simulating the trauma, one may be able to obtain the f...

several lesions (inflammatory, neoplastic and congenital) can involve in the skull base. the role of imaging is to detect the location and extension of lesion, determine mass and mass like lesions, differentiate benign from malignant tumors, detect invasion to adjacent structures and make decision in surgical planning. skull base divides to anterior, middle and posterior cranial fossa and some ...

background: total and partial gastrectomy is commonly used to treat gastric carcinoma or other benign or malignant conditions of the stomach. laparoscopic-assisted distal gastrectomy is an alternative approach for treating mucosal gastric cancer. many investigators have assessed the safety, efficacy, and feasibility of this procedure.rnobjectives: the aim of present study is to compare the outc...

Introduction: Skull base and temporal bone fractures are frequently associated with severe high-velocity head trauma. Even though most of these fractures are not life-threatening, they are often associated with severe morbidity which has got a major impact on the quality of life. Conventional computed tomography (CT) has got its own limitations and often missed finer details of the temporal bon...