Background Acute Bilirubin Encephalopathy in the neonatal period is a major cause of permanent disability. Effective screening and surveillance are essential in the newborn period to enable timely management. Noninvasive transcutaneous bilirubin devices have been successfully used for screening in many settings. We evaluated the accuracy of the Draeger JM 103 (Medical Systems, USA) for estimati...

BACKGROUND The cervicomental (CM) angle is formed by the horizontal plane of the submental region and the vertical plane of the neck. OBJECTIVE To compare the 2-dimensional effect of 4 surgical techniques on the CM angle in a human cadaver model. DESIGN Anatomic presurgical and postsurgical comparative study performed on human cadavers preserved with ethylene glycol. SETTING Academic medi...

The objective of this study was to classify the morphology of bifid mandibular canals and to evaluate their relationship with the roots of third molars, using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans. The CBCT scans of 75 patients were analyzed and the bifurcations were classified according to Langlais et al. (1985). The relationship of bifurcation and third molars was established according t...

Introduction Thyroid cancer frequently recurs in the superior or anterior mediastinum. Midline sternotomy is usually performed in order to dissect recurrent mediastinal cancers, but there is a high risk of haemorrhage that can result from unintentionally cutting the brachiocephalic veins adhering to the sternum. A safe and minimally invasive method is thus required for the treatment of recurren...

absence of the sternum or asterniais the rarest developmental anomaly of the stern um. a female newborn is presented with asternia and asd.

The exact knowledge of the mandibular canal position is fundamental in oral surgery and implantology. Clinicians have to be extremely cautious when operating close proximity this structure order avoid damaging neurovascular bundle. Several anatomical variations been described literature, such as bifid or trifid structures. use cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) offers a detailed representatio...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis can infect multiple organs and may rarely cause osteomyelitis of the sternum. We report a patient with primary sternal tuberculosis who presented with a chest wall mass. A core needle biopsy confirmed the diagnosis-of tuberculosis. We review the literature regarding tuberculous osteomyelitis of the sternum.

The centres of ossification in the sternum were investigated to determine whether there was any correlation between ossification in the sternum and chronological age. But this proved to be of no value in assessing skeletal age, although it may be of use in assessing skeletal maturity for pathological or forensic purposes.

Sternum and rib osteomyelitis complicated from breast implant infection is rare. We report a case of early sternum and rib osteomyelitis occurred during breast implant infection managed in an inter-regional referral center for bone/joint infections in the south of France.

Reoperative cardiac surgery is becoming more common surgery although it carries significant risk due to possible injury to vital structures under the sternum. Three-dimensional multidetector computed tomographic angiography (3-D MDCTA) allows identifying the relationship between the sternum and the mediastinal structures. Evidence shows that 3-D MDCTA guides surgical strategy and enables to per...