A 6 year-old girl presented with a midline parietal scalp swelling that had been gradually enlarging since birth. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed communication of the cyst with the subarachnoid space through a calvarial defect, with concomitant findings of vertically positioned straight venous sinus and subependymal grey matter heterotopia. A diagnosis of atretic cephalocele was thus made b...

In a case of congenital absence of the nose, spiral axial CT showed a tiny piriform anterior aperture on the right that ended blindly. Three-dimensional reformation of CT data showed an atretic bony plate, blind-ending right nostril, absent nasal bones, and inferior continuation of the metopic suture. Noncontrast MR findings in the brain were normal.

objective: methoxsalen is a natural photoactive compound which is found in many seed plants. a number of epidermal proliferative disorders can be treated by methoxsalen along with long wave ultraviolet a (uva). materials and methods: in an experimental study, we aimed to demonstrate the effect of methoxsalen, uva and their combination on oogenesis balb/c mice. there were two experimental groups...

We present two cases of individual pulmonary vein atresia without vestige of an involved pulmonary vein. On CT, we noted the absence or interruption of normal pulmonary venous structures, and the presence of abnormal vascular structures that represented collaterals for the involved lung parenchyma. On angiography, the atretic pulmonary vein was found to drain into the other ipsilateral pulmonar...

Renal fusion abnormalities are rare. Even more rare is pancake kidney. We present a case of a 28-year-old male with symptomatic obstruction of a non-functioning moiety of a pancake kidney. He underwent ureterectomy with a finding of only atretic renal parenchyma at exploration. He recovered well and had resolution of his pain at 3-month follow-up.

Sixteen crossbred heifers were assigned at random on d 3 of an estrous cycle to continue to receive the medium quality hay (control diet) or to be flushed with a grain ration (high-energy diet) until slaughtered on d 12 or 16. The ovarian follicles were counted and measured using routine histological techniques. Both the nonatretic and atretic (more than four pyknotic bodies) antral follicles (...

We read an article by Alwi et al 1 entitled ''Pulmonary atresia with intact septum: the use of Conquest Pro coronary guidewire for perforation of atretic valve and subsequent interventions'' with deep interest. It is important to mention that guidewires used in chronic total occlusion treatment such as Conquest Pro are often used by adult cardiologists, but are not used in paediatric cardiology...