AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of, and patients' subjective responses to, periodontal ligament (PDL) anesthetic injection compared to traditional local-anesthetic infiltration injection for the nonsurgical extraction of one posterior maxillary permanent tooth. MATERIALS AND METHODS All patients scheduled for nonsurgical symmetrical maxillary posterior permanent tooth e...

Purpose. To evaluate the efficacy of autologous tenon grafting combined with conjunctival flap as a treatment for scleromalacia or scleral thinning after pterygium excision without any additional donor graft tissue. Methods. Twenty-six cases underwent autologous advanced tenon grafting combined with sliding or rotating conjunctival flap for scleromalacia after pterygium surgery ranging from 2 y...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block can be used as part of a multimodal analgesia protocol after abdominal surgery. This study investigated whether a pneumoperitoneum during abdominal surgery influences the spread of local anesthetics. METHODS Nine fresh frozen cadavers were used for the study. Using an ultrasound-guided midaxillary technique, a unilateral TA...

The tibialis posterior muscle is a frequent target for injection of botulinum toxin during the management of spastic equinovarus foot in adults with post-stroke spasticity. Although it is deep-seated, the needle insertion into the tibialis posterior muscle is usually performed using anatomical landmarks and safety information obtained from healthy subjects and cadavers. Our aim was to evaluate ...

Projections from the posterior thalamus to the amygdala have been implicated in the processing of the emotional significance of acoustic stimuli. The aim of the present studies was to determine which areas of the amygdala receive afferents from posterior thalamic structures that, in turn, receive afferents (presumably acoustic afferents) from the inferior colliculus. Projections from the poster...

Adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder joint is a common disorder characterized by gradual increase pain and limitation in range motion joint. The pathophysiological process involves fibrous inflammation capsule leading to capsular thickening contracture. Intra-articular corticosteroid injection commonly performed patients with adhesive capsulitis. However, there no consensus as best site. Cortico...

We report results in a 77-year-old male patient with visual loss from long-standing serpiginous choroidopathy treated with bone marrow derived stem cells (BMSC) within the Stem Cell Ophthalmology Treatment Study (SCOTS). SCOTS is an Institutional Review Board approved clinical trial and the largest ophthalmology stem cell study registered at the National Institutes of Health to date (ClinicalTr...

purpose : to report a case of posterior keratoconus with atypical ocular findings case report : an 8-year-old boy was referred to our clinic with the chief complaint of blurred vision in his right eye. the patient had no history prior ocular surgery of trauma. her family history was also unremarkable. comprehensive ocular examination was performed. results : the patient's best spectacle co...