Abstract Many remains of the Muslim pilgrimage road from Cairo to Mecca, Darb al-Hajj al-Maṣri are preserved in Eilat region southern Israel. These include sections road, camps, and other associated structures. Most these date Mamluk Ottoman periods. In one camp (Netafim 2), an assemblage unusual objects was found, including fragmentary clay rattles, votive incense burners, anthropomorphic perh...

PURPOSE To report the immediate and midterm results of manual aspiration thrombectomy as the first thrombus removal method in the treatment of acute or early chronic arterial thromboembolism in the lower extremity. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective review of 40 limbs in 37 nonconsecutive patients between March 2006 and March 2008 (21 female [57%], 16 male; mean age, 67 +/- 10 years; age ran...

arthrogriposis is a disorder in which two or more joints in more than one limb of body, place in a stable position and malformation status that usually is the result of joints' immobilization during fetal period. problems resulting from this congenital deficit can occur in difference places, in upper and lower limbs, trunk, and even in face. it occurs in 3 of 1000 births, in two-third of t...

A 95-million-year-old fossil snake from the Middle East documents the most extreme hindlimb development of any known member of that group, as it preserves the tibia, fibula, tarsals, metatarsals, and phalanges. It is more complete than Pachyrhachis, a second fossil snake with hindlimbs that was recently portrayed to be basal to all other snakes. Phylogenetic analysis of the relationships of the...

Recent studies of amputees reveal a remarkable diversity in the qualities of experiences that define the phantom limb, whether painless or painful. This paper selectively reviews evidence of peripheral, central and psychological processes that trigger or modulate a variety of phantom limb experiences. The data show that pain experienced prior to amputation may persist in the form of a somatosen...

hereditary spastic paraplegias are highly heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorders with some special mutations. we report on a patient with pescavus, distal a myotrophy, hyper extended fingers, and pectus excavatum. neurological examination showed that he had proximal lower limbs weakness with a positive gower sign, exaggerated lower limbs deep tendon reflexes with spasticity, distal muscle wa...

Case presentation A 30-year-old multigravid woman referred to maternal fetal unit due to polyhydramnios at 28th week of gestation. Sonographic examination revealed a single fetus and polyhydramnios with amniotic fluid index 30 cm. The fetus had normal apparent single head, spine, thorax, abdomen, two upper and two lower limbs, and two relatively well developed rudimentary parasitic lower limbs ...

The ancient Egyptians mummified an abundance of cats during the Late Period (664 - 332 BC). The overlapping morphology and sizes of developing wildcats and domestic cats confounds the identity of mummified cat species. Genetic analyses should support mummy identification and was conducted on two long bones and a mandible of three cats that were mummified by the ancient Egyptians. The mummy DNA ...