OBJECTIVE To diagnose isolated tuberculosis of the sternum in patients presenting with signs and symptoms suggestive of tuberculosis. METHODS A prospective study conducted at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College JNMC Hospital, Aligarh, India from July 2000 to July 2006 of 2512 patients presenting with a suspected case of tuberculosis. Cases were confirmed using different investigations along with...

Background Acute Bilirubin Encephalopathy in the neonatal period is a major cause of permanent disability. Effective screening and surveillance are essential in the newborn period to enable timely management. Noninvasive transcutaneous bilirubin devices have been successfully used for screening in many settings. We evaluated the accuracy of the Draeger JM 103 (Medical Systems, USA) for estimati...

BACKGROUND The cervicomental (CM) angle is formed by the horizontal plane of the submental region and the vertical plane of the neck. OBJECTIVE To compare the 2-dimensional effect of 4 surgical techniques on the CM angle in a human cadaver model. DESIGN Anatomic presurgical and postsurgical comparative study performed on human cadavers preserved with ethylene glycol. SETTING Academic medi...

Introduction Thyroid cancer frequently recurs in the superior or anterior mediastinum. Midline sternotomy is usually performed in order to dissect recurrent mediastinal cancers, but there is a high risk of haemorrhage that can result from unintentionally cutting the brachiocephalic veins adhering to the sternum. A safe and minimally invasive method is thus required for the treatment of recurren...

absence of the sternum or asterniais the rarest developmental anomaly of the stern um. a female newborn is presented with asternia and asd.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis can infect multiple organs and may rarely cause osteomyelitis of the sternum. We report a patient with primary sternal tuberculosis who presented with a chest wall mass. A core needle biopsy confirmed the diagnosis-of tuberculosis. We review the literature regarding tuberculous osteomyelitis of the sternum.

The centres of ossification in the sternum were investigated to determine whether there was any correlation between ossification in the sternum and chronological age. But this proved to be of no value in assessing skeletal age, although it may be of use in assessing skeletal maturity for pathological or forensic purposes.

Sternum and rib osteomyelitis complicated from breast implant infection is rare. We report a case of early sternum and rib osteomyelitis occurred during breast implant infection managed in an inter-regional referral center for bone/joint infections in the south of France.

Reoperative cardiac surgery is becoming more common surgery although it carries significant risk due to possible injury to vital structures under the sternum. Three-dimensional multidetector computed tomographic angiography (3-D MDCTA) allows identifying the relationship between the sternum and the mediastinal structures. Evidence shows that 3-D MDCTA guides surgical strategy and enables to per...

Pectus excavatum is the most common congenital deformity of the anterior chest wall, in which an abnormal formation of the rib cage gives the chest a caved-in or sunken appearance. Today, the surgical correction of this deformity is carried out in children and adults through Nuss technic, which consists in the placement of a prosthetic bar under the sternum and over the ribs. Although this tech...