Segmental odontomaxillary dysplasia is characterized by variability of its clinical and radiological features, and may mimic other fibro-osseous lesions. We describe the case of a segmental odontomaxillary dysplasia in a 12-year-old male comprising of dermal, gingival, bony, and dental abnormalities. He presented with left midfacial diffuse hyperkeratotic erythematous lesion, ipsilateral hypopi...

Chromosomal or segmental aneusomy are an important cause of congenital malformations, emphasizing the need for cytogenetic evaluation. Many congenital malformations, especially those with multi-systemic anomalies present overlapping phenotypic features that could partly be attributed to multiple gene deregulations. Moreover, the expressivity of phenotypic features of a particular syndrome could...

for the global estimate, and increased for the segmental estimates for all SSFP estimates (5% vs. 9%, respectively). The variability between masked and original SSFP estimates was largest for ExMyo and Contour estimates. Through-plane motion is likely to introduce errors in strain. Because tags are created orthogonal to the image plane, the tagging strain estimate is more robust to through-plan...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Wilms tumor-suppressor gene-1 (WT1) plays a key role in kidney development and function. WT1 mutations usually occur in exons 8 and 9 and are associated with Denys-Drash, or in intron 9 and are associated with Frasier syndrome. However, overlapping clinical and molecular features have been reported. Few familial cases have been described, with intrafamilial variability...

The present study investigated the efficacy of segmental/suprasegmental vs. holistic pronunciation instruction in development listening comprehension skills by EFL learners, using a pre-test post-test design. Six groups 20 intermediate learners at university Iran took part study, all receiving same amount (10 hours over 5 weeks). control group listened to/viewed authentic audio recordings and m...

In this paper we will discuss different analyses of phonological length. In segmental phonology, several features have been proposed to distinguish so-called long vowels, such as /a,i,y,e,o,u/, from so-called short vowels, such as /a,i,Y,e,o,u/. These features are long and short; tense and lax; Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) and Radical. Apart from features, structural analyses have been proposed t...

Bowel endometriosis is the presence of ectopic endometrial glands and stroma infiltrating intestinal wall causing bowel symptoms pain. When hormonal therapies fail, surgery becomes treatment choice nowadays a minimally invasive approach standard care. We usually adopt robotic three-trocar technique with 12-mm infraumbilical camera port, two 8-mm accesses one or laparoscopic ports. Eradication d...

Traditional statistical speech recognition systems typically make strong assumptions about the independence of observation frames and generally do not make use of segmental information. In contrast, when the segmentation is known, existing classifiers can readily accommodate segmental information in the decision process. We describe an approach to connected word recognition that allows the use ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Segmental spinal dysgenesis (SSD) is a rare congenital abnormality in which a segment of the spine and spinal cord fails to develop properly. Our goal was to investigate the neuroradiologic features of this condition in order to correlate our findings with the degree of residual spinal cord function, and to provide insight into the embryologic origin of this disorder. We ...