We eagerly read and appreciate your weighty journal’s hint on the subject flail chest in the April 2010 issue [1]. We wish to respectfully comment on this subject, since we strongly suppose that some of our observations and experience of flail chest in our centre, with a heavy workload to contend with, [2] may be of great interest and useful in this field. Flail chest is a problem whose definit...

The role of alkaline phosphatase in osteogenesis has been investigated by histochemical techniques with particular attention to its relationship to phosphate metabolism and matrix elaboration. The upper tibial epiphysis mainly, and other epiphyses as well of growing rabbits, and the costochondral junctions of newborn human beings were studied, as were bone grafts in growing rabbits. The finding...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Introduction: Ungrouped achondrite NWA 4518 is an ultramafic polymict breccia with abundant FeNi-metal. The silicate chemistry of NWA 4518 is similar to th...

body skeletal scintigraphy performed with 20 mCi (740 Mega Becquerel) of Technetium-99m Methylene DiphosPhonate (MDP) revealed diffusely increased tracer uptake over body of sternum and manubriosternal junction suggestive of neoplastic process. A focal area of benign uptake was also seen over left 2nd costochondral junction (Fig. 3). Contrast enhanced CT study revealed mixed sclerotic and lytic...

1. Weanling rats, aged 21 d, given a 40 g casein/kg diet for 25 d were compared with ‘age-matched’ controls given a 200 g casein/kg diet and with ‘weight-matched’ weanling controls. 2. The protein-malnourished rats demonstrated failure of weight gain and linear growth, hypoproteinaemia, hypoalbuminaemia and fatty liver. 3. Autoradiography of the tibia was carried out 24 h after intraperitoneal ...

Varus deformity at the upper end of the tibia was reported by Erlacher (1922) and LUlsdorf (1931), who considered it to be a type of osteochondritis. Blount (1937) presented a personal series of thirt en cases and reviewed fifteen cases from the literature. He called the condition tibia vara and suggested that the term osteochondrosis was more appropriate than osteochondritis. Further reports o...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION In the thorax there are normally 11 pairs of intercostal spaces: the spaces between adjacent ribs. The intercostal spaces contain intercostal muscles, intercostal nerves and vessels. CASE PRESENTATION During a routine dissection for undergraduate medical students, we observed a variation involving the left 3rd rib and 3rd costal cartilage in the cadaver of a man of ...

Acute osteomyelitis is uncommon in full-term neonates and occurs most frequently in those with critical illnesses, often following episodes of sepsis, skin infection, umbilical catheterization, urinary tract anomalies, or a complicated delivery. Here, we report a very rare case of acute rib osteomyelitis due to Staphylococcus aureus in a 13-day-old full-term male neonate. Ultrasonography (US) e...

Classification of structural properties of human bones is essential for understanding differential response to loading and fracture risk. Ribs, in particular, are frequently fractured during motor vehicle crashes and are linked to high mortality rates, especially in elderly individuals. While many studies describe variation of bone properties with respect to age and sex differences, these param...

A 70-year-old man with chronic hepatitis C, alcohol abuse, and an active cigarette smoking habit presented to our clinic with left shoulder pain and a soft tissue mass without history of prior trauma. Physical examination revealed a disheveled man, scleral icterus, palmar erythema, and abdominal shifting dullness. Neurological exam was significant for right arm weakness. Laboratory studies show...