this case report presents an eight-year-old girl having periauricular swelling and severe pain during mouth opening on the right-side temporomandibular joint (tmj). cbct showed extensive destruction of the base of the skull and the roof of the glenoid fossa on the right side. the findings based on ct and mri images with and without contrast are discussed herein. this report highlights a skull b...

Task performance and fatigue during driving may be influenced by psychological factors since individuals differ in temperament and anxiety status. Fatigue has also been shown to be associated with changes in brain wave activity. However, research on psychophysiological associations with driver fatigue is scarce. Understanding the psychological links could provide information for educating the p...

Fatigue is one of the most widespread damage mechanisms found in metallic structures. Fatigue is an accumulated degradation process that occurs under cyclic loading, eventually inducing cracking at stress concentration points. Fatigue-related cracking in operating structures is closely related with statistical loading characteristics, such as the number of load cycles, cycle amplitudes and mean...

INTRODUCTION Activated synovial fibroblasts are thought to play a major role in the destruction of cartilage in chronic, inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, profound insight into the pathogenic mechanisms and the impact of synovial fibroblasts in the initial early stages of cartilage destruction is limited. Hence, the present study sought to establish a standardised in vitro model ...

PURPOSE Biomarkers of radiation-induced behavioral symptoms, such as fatigue, have not been identified. Studies linking inflammatory processes to fatigue in cancer survivors led us to test the hypothesis that activation of the proinflammatory cytokine network is associated with fatigue symptoms during radiation therapy for breast and prostate cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Individuals with early...

A the microscope came into vogue, the surgeons enjoyed a huge optical advantage, but at the price of increasing the working distance. This often resulted in early fatigue of the shoulder, arm and hand muscles and also predisposed to tremors very soon. The stability of the surgeon’s hand and the surgeon’s fatigue cannot be measured, and the impressions of the surgeons using the system are theref...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine whether clinical characteristics, physical fitness, or physical activity predict fatigue in older, long-term breast cancer survivors. DESIGN Cross sectional. SETTING National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Portland, OR. SAMPLE 47 women (X age = 69 years) who were at least one year beyond treatment completion, including surgery, radiation, chem...

FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, applied physiologists have investigated the complex nature of fatigue and its implications for exercise performance. Long before the term “systems biology” entered the biomedical lexicon, physiologists appreciated the need to understand fatigue at various levels of integration and across multiple organ systems, a point eloquently highlighted in a recent editorial (13). ...

Although fatigue fractures are not unusual in athletes and military personnel those of the pubic ramus are rare. We report three cases of fatigue fractures of the inferior pubic rami in two male recruits and one female military cadet. On the initial radiograph, most of the lesions were subtle and easy to overlook. However, bone scintigraphy provided more distinct images that allowed easy and ea...