introdouction: mastoid pneumatization is often complete by the age of 5-years and may involve the temporo mandibular joint (tmj) region, including the pneumatized articular tubercle (pat) and pneumatized roof of the glenoid fossa (prgf). to prevent surgical complications, the diagnosis of these air cells is important. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and characteristics of ...

conclusions most extracted maxillary first molars were three rooted and four canals. cbct has relatively high reproducibility and accuracy of distinguishing mb2 canal. results we found 100% of cases with three separated roots, from which 69.23% had four canals including mb2 and 30.77% with three canals. 71.3% of mesiobuccal roots were two canals of type two vertucci and 28.7% type 4 with the me...

results the accuracy for detecting number of main renal arteries were not different in both groups which were 96.7% in ct angiography group and 90% in traditional angiography group (p = 0.15). the accuracy for detection of main renal veins were 100% in group 1 and 96.7% in group 2 (p = 0.31). patients and methods a total number of 60 living kidney donors who underwent open surgical approach for...

conclusions the type of materials can influence the obtained gsv. different materials cause various amounts of artifacts due to differences in density and atomic number. results according to the mean gsv of the five different materials, the majority of artifacts produced were as follows: tempbond > zoe > mta > gi (chemfil dentsply) > gi (gc, fuji ιx). materials and methods samples of five cemen...

o bjective: to describe the clinical characteristics, presentation and management of pardah pin inhalation in female teenagers of single center in northern india. m e thods: this was a prospective cross-sectional study being performed in department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery of sher-i-kashmir institute of medical sciences located in northern india from january 2009 to december 2012....

conclusions in conclusion complementary to the previous studies our results have demonstrated that bronchial artery embolization remains as one of the most efficient procedures in managing massive hemoptysis, with minimal rate of complications. patients and methods all the patients had already been assessed by computerized tomography (ct) to localize and delineate the underlying etiology except...

background: previous anatomic and radiological studies have described the relationship of the clavicle to major neurovascular structures in healthy subjects. we were curious about this relationship in patients with a clavicle fracture and if it is different from non-fractured clavicles.   methods: we retrospectively identified all patients with a clavicle fracture between july 2001 and october ...

fibrovascular polyps are rare, pedunculated, tumor-like lesions that are usually found in the esophagus; occurrence in the stomach is very rare. to our knowledge, sonographic and ct findings of a fibrovascular polyp in the stomach have never been reported. here, we report a case of a fibrovascular polyp that was identified in the gastric antrum and prolapsed into the duodenal bulb. sonography r...

primary pleuropulmonary synovial sarcomas are rare soft tissue malignancies; combined metastatic involvement of the heart is extremely rare. in this case report, a 17-year-old female presented with a history of chest pain. chest radiographs revealed a round mass in the left upper hemithorax, and computed tomography (ct) showed a well-defined heterogeneous enhancing mass abutting the pleura. a c...

a mobile caecum and ascending colon is an uncommon congenital disorder, and it is even rarer as the cause of an acute abdomen during childhood. this report presents the case of a 6-year-old boy with acute gangrenous appendicitis with a mobile caecum and ascending colon. data from the surgical course, as well as laboratory and imaging studies, were acquired and carefully examined. emergency ultr...