BACKGROUND Every social grouping in the world has its own cultural practices and beliefs which guide its members on how they should live or behave. Harmful traditional practices that affect children are Female genital mutilation, Milk teeth extraction, Food taboo, Uvula cutting, keeping babies out of exposure to sun, and Feeding fresh butter to new born babies. The objective of this study was t...

BACKGROUND Loeys-Dietz syndrome (LDS) is a recently recognized aggressive aortic disorder characterized by root aneurysm, arterial tortuosity, hypertelorism, and bifid uvula or cleft palate. The results of prophylactic root replacement using valve-sparing procedures (valve-sparing root replacement [VSRR]) in patients with LDS is not known. METHODS We reviewed all patients with clinical and ge...

BACKGROUND Genetic disorders are a major cause in the etiology of cases with intellectual disability; however, analysis by a conventional technique such as cytogenetic karyotyping only allows the detection of chromosomal alterations in approximately 9.5 % of cases. The inclusion of new technologies such as high resolution microarray analysis has allowed the study of alterations in chromosomal s...

OBJECTIVE No specific epidemiology data are available for carcinoma of the uvula. This study aims to analyze the epidemiological characteristics and treatment outcomes of carcinoma of the uvula at the authors' institution. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Service of ENT-Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Complex of Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Spain. SUBJECTS ...

BACKGROUND Deletions in the Xq22.3-Xq23 region, inclusive of COL4A5, have been associated with a contiguous gene deletion syndrome characterised by Alport syndrome with intellectual disability (Mental retardation), Midface hypoplasia and Elliptocytosis (AMME). The extrarenal biological and clinical significance of neighbouring genes to the Alport locus has been largely speculative. We sought to...

To cite: Niswade AK, Sarathi V, Desai S, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2012-008444 DESCRIPTION A 6-year-old boy who presented with sore throat had bilateral swellings in the submandibular regions (figure 1A). Surprisingly the swellings were pulsatile. Detailed history revealed generalised hypotonia during infancy with motor developmental ...

The infection of intestinal flukes is endemic in a big area of Saharsa District and is a great public health problem. It has affected mostly the poor people and has devitalised such a population leading to a great economic loss. In order to study the life cycle and source of infection of F. buski about two thousands snails from different tanks and pools of the affected areas were studied. Out o...

Bifid pancreatic duct represents a relatively rare anatomical variation of the pancreatic ductal system, in which the main pancreatic duct is bifurcated along its length. This paper describes the challenging surgical management of a 68-year-old male patient, with presumptive diagnosis of periampullary malignancy who underwent a successful double duct to mucosa pancreaticojejunostomy for bifid p...