There are two main problems with muscle tendon lengthening: thinness created by the technical procedure weakens the tendon, and in short tendons, lengthening may not provide enough length for the amount of joint motion required. In proximal rectus femoris lengthening, the distal ends of the reflected and straight heads are sutured together. Using this technique, the tendon will not be thinned, ...

Penile augmentation surgical procedure includes diverse graft materials such as artificial collagen material as well as dermo-fat graft. Important factors of postoperative satisfaction are natural appearance of genitalia at the flaccid state and minimal resorption of graft volume. Artificial collagen materials and acellular dermal matrix are available for surgical procedure with variable size. ...

Giant cell tumour of bone (GCTB) is a rare benign tumour noted before physeal closure. GCTB cases in patients younger than 10 years are especially uncommon. The authors report the case of a 9-year-old girl with a GCTB of the distal femur. After initial intralesional excision and curettage of the tumour, local recurrence occurred, which needed two more additional surgeries to treat. The primary ...

Post-traumatic premature closure of the distal fibular growth plate is a rare entity leading to shortening of the lateral malleolus. We report on a 14-year old boy who presented with a 4-year history of worsening, diffuse discomfort and swelling of his left ankle, as well as fibular shortening and talar malreduction. He had sustained a distal tibial fracture 4 years earlier and had been treated...

INTRODUCTION Osteomyelitis of the radius resulting in the radial clubhand is a very rare condition and few studies have been published about its prognosis and treatment. CASE OUTLINE This is a case report of hematogenous osteomyelitis of the radius with a complete loss of the radius leaving only the distal radial metaphysis to carry the carpus. In order to achieve best functional results, fou...

Recombination-mediated pathways for telomere lengthening may be utilized in the absence of telomerase activity. The RecQ-like helicases, BLM and Sgs1, are implicated in recombination-mediated telomere lengthening in human cells and budding yeast, respectively. Here, we show that BLM expression rescues disrupted telomere lengthening in telomerase-negative sgs1 yeast. BLM helicase activity is req...

nowadays, due to recent developments and researches in dental science, it is possible to preserve and restore previously extracted cases such as teeth with extensive caries, fractured or less appropriate cases for crown coverage as well as teeth with external perforation caused by restorative pins. in order to restore the teeth with preservation of periodontium, we should know thoroughly physio...

Contraction-induced injury occurs when muscles are stretched while activated (lengthening contractions). The injury is initiated by mechanical damage followed by an inflammatory response. Old animals are particularly susceptible to contraction-induced injury, yet exposure to stretches without activation (passive stretches) before lengthening contractions lessens the injury. We hypothesized that...

This paper presents results from the analysis of segmental duration in French in three different speaking styles, (a) 'reading'; (b) 'news broadcast' ; (c) 'spontaneous interview'. A ten minute corpus was hand segmented and labelled using six accent categories (i) unstressed (ii) word-initial (iii) emphatic word-initial (iv) word-final (v) intonation unit final before non-terminal boundary (vi)...