Cerebellar syndromes and radiologic cerebellar atrophy after hyperpyrexia have occasionally been reported, mostly in neuroleptic malignant syndromes, but neuropathologic studies are extremely rare. We studied 3 patients (a 74-year-old woman, a 63-year-old man, and an 80-year-old man) who had heat stroke during heat waves in France. One patient had generalized seizures and died 28 hours after ad...

It is a well known fact that with changing times, an increase in the number of natural disasters, crimes and fatalities have taken place. In such a challenging time, identification of human remains is an issue which is the call of the hour and is a grave responsibility as well [1]. Teeth are highly resistant to fire, decomposition and other extreme conditions and so they are vital in forensic i...

This study was designed to investigate the prenatal development of the palatal rugae in the White Rat and to discuss the possible role played by the developing rugae in palatal shelf elevation. Extraction of embryos from twenty pregnant female rats was carried out in the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th day of pregnancy. Four embryos from each age were decapitated and their heads were fixed and ...

PURPOSE To describe MR changes in the cerebellar cortex and the dentate nucleus in patients with inferior olivary nucleus hypertrophy. METHODS MR scans of 11 patients with palatal myoclonus were reviewed. Among them, we selected 5 cases that showed lesions in the central tegmental tract and the ipsilateral inferior olivary nucleus. We evaluated MR changes of the cerebellar cortices and dentat...

palatal myoclonus, tongue fasciculation and ataxic gait. MRI of the brain showed increased T2 and Fluid Attenuation Inversion recovery (FLAIR) signal intensities in the bilateral inferior olivary complex without diffusion restriction (figure 1). Midbrain, pons, and cerebral and cerebellar parenchyma were normal (figure 2). Imaging features were consistent with bilateral hypertrophic olivary deg...

The designation labio-maxillo-palatal cleft is used to describe two types of congenital malformations of the palate. The mechanisms that create them occur in the early weeks of fetal life by an alteration of embryological message delivery that researchers have been able to analyze. But they have not as yet been able to discern the multi-factorial causes of this alteration. Morphological embryol...