Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of the Submandibular Gland Yong-Yun Ha, Seong-Gon Kim, Min-Keun Kim Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, Gangneung-Wonju National University Adenoid cystic carcinoma is a distinctive neoplasm of the salivary gland and is the most common malignant tumor of submandibular gland. Although adenoid cystic carcinoma grows slowly, it shows aggress...

An 8-year-old neutered female Cavalier King Charles spaniel was evaluated for progressing right forelimb lameness. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed that the right-side radial nerves and the caudal brachial plexus were swollen. The histological and molecular biological diagnosis by partial biopsy of the C8 spinal nerve was T-cell lymphoma. Coadministration of lomustine and irradiation was sta...

Introduction Most humans have four lumbrical muscles in each hand numbered as first, second, third and fourth from the radial to ulnar side. Lumbrical muscles of the hand flex the second to fifth metacarpophalangeal joints and extend the interphalangeal joints of the fingers [1, 2]. The first and second lumbrical muscles originate from the radial side of the flexor digitorum profundus (FDP) ten...

BACKGROUND High-resolution ultrasonography is a new and promising technique to evaluate peripheral and spinal nerves. Its validity as a diagnostic tool in neurological diseases has been demonstrated in adults. Up to now no reference values have been published in children and adolescents although this technique would be ideal in this population as it is fast and non-invasive. METHODS/DESIGN Ou...

1. The excitation pathways mediating the protective crumpling behaviour of Polyorchis penicillatus were studied with electrophysiological and ultrastructural techniques. 2. Stimulating the subumbrellar endoderm consistently resulted in a complex crumpling potential when recorded with suction electrodes from radial muscle (the prime effector). The potential represents the summation of a quick ra...

A novel method for the control of a myoelectric upper limb prosthesis was achieved in a patient with bilateral amputations at the shoulder disarticulation level. Four independently controlled nerve-muscle units were created by surgically anastomosing residual brachial plexus nerves to dissected and divided aspects of the pectoralis major and minor muscles. The musculocutaneous nerve was anastom...

Somatosensory signals undergo substantial modulation in the dorsal column nuclei. We examined transmission of signals from forelimb afferents in primate cuneate and external cuneate nuclei. In anesthetized macaque monkeys, the median, ulnar, deep radial, and superficial radial nerves were electrically stimulated at 1.5-2× motor threshold with independent Poisson trains whereas extracellular rec...

The intrafascicular organization of human peripheral nerves was studied with percutaneous microneurography in the median, radial and peroneal nerves with one-surface or two-surface thin diameter concentric needle electrodes. Data from 33 recording sites containing 47 slowly adapting type II (SAII) units were analysed. At many sites two, sometimes even three, neighbouring SAII units were recorde...

The aim was to establish an accurate, reproducible, and simple method to evaluate functional recovery after different types of nerve injuries to the brachial plexus of rats. To that end, pawprints, measured as distance between the first and fourth and second and third digits, were used for evaluation of injuries including crush injury, transection/repair, or graft repair of the median, ulnar, a...

The effect of the intrathecal administration of midazolam 0.5-1.0 mg in 1-2 ml of physiological saline solution, has been observed on responses evoked in renal sympathetic nerves by supramaximal electrical stimulation of radial and tibial nerves. In artificially ventilated dogs anaesthetized with alpha-chloralose, the intrathecal administration of midazolam caused a marked depression of reflexe...