with CATCH 22 syndrome to psychotic disorders. CATCH 22 syndrome is a developmental malformation caused by hemizygous deletion of 22qll chromosome which usually presents with cardiac malformations, thymic aplasia, cleft palate, hypocalcaemia and chromosome 22 deletion (Wilson et al, 1993). Recently, a high prevalence of both schizophrenia and bipolar spectrum disorders have been found in these ...

Inv dup (15) SIR, With reference to our paper published in the June issue of the journal (1984;21:213-4), we would like to thank you for bringing the paper of Maraschio et all to our attention. These authors described eight new cases of inv dup (15). All were mentally retarded with few or no dysmorphic features and in six cases cytogenetic evidence for the maternal origin of the extra chromosom...

On palpation, sub-mental bony spur was felt. The defect was associated with limitation of neck extension. Surgery was offered. At operation the extent of the sinus was about 4-6mm. The skin defect along with its cranial and caudal lesions was excised. The surgical wound was closed with multiple z-plasties (Fig. 2). The postoperative recovery was uneventful. Histopathology of the specimen showed...

Background and Aim: Decompressive craniectomy can be life-saving for patients with severe traumatic brain injury, but many questions about its ideal application, indications, timing, technique, and even the definition of success of decompressive craniectomy remains unclear. The aim of this study was to assess the factors associated with prognosis and outcome of patients with traumatic brain inj...

  Background: Anterior pelvic ring surgery includes a variety of plating techniques and insertion of retrograde superior pubic ramus screws. Anterior acetabular surgery also includes fixation through an ilioinguinal or Stoppa approach. These exposures risk injury to the spermatic cord and accompanying genital branch of the genitofemoral nerve. The primary aim of this study was to identify the d...

We assessed 110 left-handed and 322 right-handed children aged from 3 to 10 years, using Bishop's card-reaching task. Manual body midline crossings were observed. A regular developmental trend was observed from 3 to 10 years: older children crossed the body midline more frequently when reaching for cards than did younger children. The factor age explained 4.9% of the variance. Significant diffe...

A Möbius band can be formed by bending a sufficiently long rectangular unstretchable material sheet and joining the two short ends after twisting by 180°. This process can be modelled by an isometric mapping from a rectangular region to a developable surface in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Attempts have been made to determine the equilibrium shape of a Möbius band by minimizing the bendin...

Midline destructive lesions (MDLs) are a diagnostic challenge due to an extensive differential diagnosis and vague presenting signs symptoms. It may be neoplastic, autoimmune, traumatic, infectious, or unknown. The lethal characterized by ulcerative destruction of midline structures the face like nose, paranasal sinus palate. A spectrum diseases with myriad clinicopathological features can pres...