as the rest of the fingers.5 Additionally, the thumb may be triphalanged, absent, or simply longer than normal in association with a short forearm which displays limited supination and pronation. All these upper extremity features are combined with an ostium secundum atrial septal defect, thereby completing the salient anatomy of the condition. The patient under current investigation did not ha...

Oculo-auriculovertebral spectrum (OAVS) or the Goldenhar syndrome is a rare developmental disorder with plethora of congenital anomalies which mostly affects structures arising from the fi rst and the second branchial arches. The affected structures include cheekbone, jaws, mouth eyes, ear and vertebrae. The case which we are presenting here had classical features such as microsomia, unilateral...

Segmental long bone defects resulting from high-energy trauma with severe soft tissue loss are difficult problems to manage. Amputation was for a long time the primary mainstay of treatment. This is the report on a 15-year-old male patient who sustained a third-degree open, traumatic fracture with partial amputation of the left distal femur and extensive bone loss of 26 cm. Successful limb salv...

We report a male child with Oromandibular-limb hypogenesis (OMLH), the main features being bilateral sixth and seventh nerve palsies, limb anomalies and hypoplasia of the tongue. Additional features were shortness of the neck associated with torticollis. Radiographs of the cervical spine were non-contributory, but 3D computed tomography (CT) scanning of this area identified: a) congenital hypop...

Recently, indications for endoscopic clips have expanded to include closure of gastrointestinal fistulae and perforations. A 62-year-old man with remote history of surgery for peptic ulcer underwent right hemicolectomy for a large hepatic flexure mass with proximal colonic dilatation. During surgery, inadvertent pinpoint duodenotomy of the afferent Billroth II limb resulted in a duodeno-cutaneo...

background:the aim of this study is to find out the spatial and temporal expression of tgf-b1 during the tendon healing, after application of platelet rich plasma (prp). methods: a patellar tendon defect model in rabbits was used for this purpose. 48 skeletally mature new zealand white rabbits, weighing 3.5 kg, were used for this study. equal numbers of animals from both groups were sacrificed ...

The study aims to further standardize the construction process, improve quality, and ensure stability of infrastructure construction. continuous rigid-frame bridge is taken as research object, finite element model body established by using beam element, overall analyzed in completion stages. Moreover, coefficient buckling mode are under different working conditions each stage, linear variation ...

Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) is an inherited, neurodegenerative disease that typically presents in childhood and results progressive gait limb ataxia, with the extraneural features of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, diabetes scoliosis. The genetic defect a deficiency frataxin protein, which important for mitochondrial function, especially brain heart. Drug development has approached FRDA through pat...