purpose: to report a case of enophthalmos secondary to complete globe dislocation into the maxillary sinus due to orbital fracture. patient and findings: an 18-year-old man was referred to labafinejad hospital, one week after a car accident. at initial examination, the globe was not seen within the right orbit. a large floor fracture and globe luxation into the right maxillary sinus were confir...

Acute manifestations of Organophosphate Compound (OPC) poison are due to effect cholinergic excess. Others are intermediate syndrome [IMS], organophosphate induced delayed neuropathy [OPIND] and chronic organophosphate induced neuropsychiatric disorder [COPIND]. All these manifestation have specific period of occurrence and duration. There are very sparse reports of toxic demylination due to OP...

Painless fractures with delayed healing or abnormal callus formation require exclusion of a systemic disorder. We report a 9-year-old girl with hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type IV who developed bone changes in the hind foot after a protracted healing of a tibia fracture. Osteomyelitis was considered as a possible cause of destruction of the tarsal bones. Negative sweat test docu...

A child was referred for an audiologic evaluation, to include auditory brainstem evoked response testing, due to inconsistent responses to sound and delayed speech and language development. Results were characteristic of auditory neuropathy. In view of subsequent decline in motor function, a genetics evaluation was conducted, revealing a mitochondrial disorder. A brief overview of mitochondrial...

OBJECTIVE Posture-induced radial neuropathy, known as Saturday night palsy, occurs because of compression of the radial nerve. The clinical symptoms of radial neuropathy are similar to stroke or a herniated cervical disk, which makes it difficult to diagnose and sometimes leads to inappropriate evaluations. The purpose of our study was to establish the clinical characteristics and diagnostic as...

Radiography and manometry have been used to study oesophageal motor function in a group of 31 diabetics, 23 of whom had alimentary or genitourinary symptoms attributed to autonomic neuropathy. Peristalsis was of diminished amplitude and oesophageal emptying in the 15 degrees Trendelen-Peristalsis was of diminished amplitude and oesophageal emptying in the 15 degrees Trendelenburg position was d...

Charcot neuroarthropathy is a destructive and often-limb threatening process that can affect patients with peripheral neuropathy of any etiology. Early recognition and appropriate management is crucial to prevention of catastrophic outcomes. Delayed diagnosis and subsequent pedal collapse often preclude successful conservative management of these deformities and necessitate surgical interventio...