OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the long-term efficacy of contralateral ansa cervicalis-to-recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) anastomosis for unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP), when the ansa cervicalis on the side of the paralyzed vocal fold was absent or there was any question about its viability. STUDY DESIGN We retrospectively reviewed 56 consecutive cases of delayed laryngeal reinnerv...

BACKGROUND To study biometric and structural ocular manifestations of Marfan syndrome (MFS). METHODS Observational, retrospective, comparative cohort study in a tertiary referral center on 285 MFS patients and 267 controls. Structural and biometric ocular characteristic were compared. RESULTS MFS eyes were longer (axial length 24.25 ± 1.74 mm versus 23.89 ± 1.31 mm, p < 0.001) and had a fla...

CONTEXT Although blunt, nonpenetrating chest blows causing sudden cardiac death (commotio cordis) are often associated with competitive sports, dangers implicit in such blows can extend into many other life activities. OBJECTIVE To describe the comprehensive spectrum of commotio cordis events. DESIGN AND SETTING Analysis of confirmed cases from the general community assembled in the US Comm...

Melek Çiçek, Kafkas Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Kadın Hastalıkları ve Doğum Anabilim Dalı, Tel. 0506 8609381 Email. [email protected] Geliş Tarihi: 05.12.2011 • Kabul Tarihi: 16.12.2011 ABSTRACT Pentalogy of Cantrell is a rare congenital syndrome; described as the association of partial or complete ectopia cordis, a supraumbilical abdominal wall defect, congenital heart defects, defects ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the causes for delay in the diagnosis of homocystinuria. DESIGN Clinical and laboratory data were collected from patients diagnosed as having homocystinuria due to cystathionine synthase deficiency, with special reference to the ages at which the patients had their first major signs of the disease, ectopia lentis was established, and homocystinuria was diagnosed. SETTING...

Congenital anomalies on some viscera like heart, liver and kidney have been investigated in chick embryos after a single injection of dilantin (3 mg/egg), a known antiepileptic drug, on 4th day of incubation. On 19th day of incubation, chick embryos were collected to observe the gross malformations and histological changes in heart, liver and kidney. On gross examination, visceroptosis (29%), t...