In 1903 Schmorl4 defined Kernikterus as jaundice of the nuclear masses of the brain. It includes usually the caudate, lenticulate, subthalamic and dentate nuclei, the thalami, mammillary bodies, Ammon's horns, the nuclei of the cranial nerves, the olives, parts of the cerebellar cortex and the anterior and posterior horns of the spinal cord. Kernikterus is almost always associated with icterus ...

Dimitris Pinotsis*, Peter Robinson, Peter beim Graben and Karl Friston 1 The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK 2 School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia 3 Center for Integrative Brain Function, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia 4 Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead, NSW, Australia 5 Institut für deutsche S...

16 AUGUST 2013 VOL 341 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org 2. A. P. Patterson, L. A. Tabak, A. S. Fauci, F. S. Collins, S. Howard, Science 339, 1036 (2013). 3. A Framework for Guiding U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Funding Decisions about Research Proposals with the Potential for Generating Highly Pathogenic Avian Infl uenza H5N1 Viruses that are Transmissible among Mammals by Respiratory ...

The taxonomic status of the small bodied hominin, Homo floresiensis, remains controversial. One contentious aspect of the debate concerns the small brain size estimated for specimen LB1 (Liang Bua 1). Based on intraspecific mammalian allometric relationships between brain and body size, it has been argued that the brain of LB1 is too small for its body mass and is therefore likely to be patholo...

Kerber, C., and Blank, E. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 560. Total brain opacification in children during angiography. Total brain opacification is an angiographic method of neuroradiological examination in children which will often make examination with air unnecessary. The substance of the brain becomes temporarily opaque while the ventricles and avascular masses are radioluce...

abdominal mass is one of the commonest clinical findings in children. the purpose of this study was to evaluate abdominal masses in different age groups in a referral children surgical center. we retrospectively reviewed records of 325 patients (57% boys, mean age 37.7 months) admitted to amir kabir hospital in period of 12 years for abdominal mass surgery. the 4 most common abdominal masses wa...

Abstract- Introduction   Hydatid cyst is endemic in India, with different clinical presentations as per site of involvement in body. Occurrence primarily in brain without involvement of other visceras is rare.   Case report   We present a case of eight year old female child with gradually progressive right hemiparesis and slurring of speech, with a large cyst in left cerebral hemisphere ...