KBG syndrome is a condition characterised by macrodontia, neurological disturbance, short stature, a distinct cranio-facial appearance, and skeletal anomalies. The authors describe what appears to be the first case of KBG syndrome reported from the Indian subcontinent. Meticulous evaluation of the dental findings helps to identify such cases which may otherwise remain undiagnosed. Further resea...

Disturbance of this system occurs because the nerves involved run along the spinal cord in the "sympathetic and parasympathetic chains" (thoraco-lumbar and cranio-sacral respectively) and also because of the effects of unrelieved pain on stress hormones. Bowsher's paper ( [1] ) on central pain describes how most patients with central pain develop "autonomic instability", by...

This paper presents a novel approach for 3D Cranio-Facial reconstruction using Fast Corner detector. The Method involves Bilateral Filtering as the preprocessing step to suppress unwanted distortions.The contours representing the bony areas of the skull are extracted using Region of interest processing.The feature points required for the point cloud generation are detected by FAST corner detect...

  I n a survey of pneumonia due to Mycoplasma 282 out of 12168 ovine and caprine lung condemnation were collected (2.32%). Mycoplasma spp. has been isolated from pneumonic cases in 4 sheep and 2 goats. PCR studies were confirmed the genus of Mycoplasma although attempting for identification of strains M. mycoides, M. capricolum/caprine pleuropneumonia and M. arginin were in failure. The lesions...

Today surgical education and training do not offer a realistic scenario to the medical students. Practical skills are mostly acquired by operating cadavers which offer material properties and physical behaviour different from living humans. Simulation systems can be used in this area to improve medical education and to offer a more authentic scenario to the future surgeons. Besides the field of...

Computer and robot assistance in craniotomy/craniectomy procedures is intended to increase precision and efficiency of the removal of calvarial tumours, enabling the preoperative design and manufacturing of the corresponding implant. In the framework of the CRANIO project, an active robotic system was developed to automate the milling processes based on a predefined resection planning. This app...

The order Psittaciformes (parrots) has unique morphological features in the head that are evolutionarily novel. To better understand the unique evolution of the head in parrots, the developmental pattern of the skull of the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) was initially described on the basis of transparent skeletal specimens. Although the fundamental pattern of the skull development of bir...

The free deep inferior epigastric perforator flap (DIEP) is a well-established therapy for plastic reconstruction of the breast or defects of the lower extremity without distinct donor site morbidity. Because of its particular qualities we started to apply the DIEP-flap also in reconstruction of defects in the cranio-maxillofacial area. A series of 10 consecutive patients, who received a DIEP-f...

Higher initial levels of pain and disability, older age, cold hyperalgesia, impaired sympathetic vasoconstriction and moderate post-traumatic stress symptoms have been shown to be associated with poor outcome 6 months following whiplash injury. This study prospectively investigated the predictive capacity of these variables at a long-term follow-up. Sixty-five of an initial cohort of 76 acutely...