Recurrent meningitis in children is unusual and usually associated with a predisposing factor like immune-deficiency disorder or cranio-spinal defect. We report a case of recurrent meningitis in association with Common Variable Immune deficiency.

One of the research goals at the Craniofacial Virtual Reality Laboratory and the Integrated Media Systems Center at the University of Southern California is to build a virtual craniofacial patient from CT data, digital teeth models, and human jaw motion tracking. First, two different techniques to acquire three-dimensional soft-tissue representations will be presented. Then, automatic segmentat...

Cranio-cervical instability is well documented in connective tissue disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus, and genetic disorders such as Down’s syndrome and Osteogenesis Imperfecta. However, less understood are the more than fifty genetic disorders of collagen characterized by joint laxity, and of course, laxity of the ligaments of the spine. Given the propensity in these patie...

AIM: To quantitatively evaluate and compare the body posture its correlation with cervical plantar pressure in subjects skeletal class II malocclusion, before after camouflage orthodontic treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 18 were considered for study subjected to lateral cephalograms analysis Cranio-cervical angles compared treatment using paired T test. A force platform was designed accommodat...

Objective To evaluate in a cohort of superior sulcus tumors (SST) whether even large tumors can respond well to chemoradiotherapy and can be sterilized with modest doses of radiotherapy (45-50 Gy). Methods Patients with SST, treated with trimodality therapy at our institution between 2002 and 2011, who received 45-50 Gy radiotherapy, were included. Resection specimens were examined for remainin...