The most common sites for metastases of colorectal cancer include the liver, lungs, brain, and regional lymph nodes. However, a limited number reported cases describe colon metastasis to thyroid gland. Metastatic adenocarcinoma gland is rare. majority these with are diagnosed years after initial treatment cancer. discovery usually made routine surveillance imaging, often patients have minimal o...

A 3-day-old full-term infant was transferred to our pediatric intensive care unit because of significant biphasic stridor with desaturation spells. The history revealed an uncomplicated pregnancy and normal spontaneous vaginal delivery. The mother was known to have hypothyroidism caused by Hashimoto thyroiditis (negative thyroid-stimulating immuno-globulin). Apgar scores were 6 and 9 after 1 an...

The present study examines the effect of language experience on vocal emotion perception in a second language. Native speakers of French with varying levels of self-reported English ability were asked to identify emotions from vocal expressions produced by American actors in a forced-choice task, and to rate their pleasantness, power, alertness and intensity on continuous scales. Stimuli includ...

Research on nonverbal vocal cues and verbal irony has often relied on the concept of an ironic tone of voice. Here we provide acoustic analysis and experimental evidence that this notion is oversimplified and misguided. Acoustic analyses of spontaneous ironic speech extracted from talk radio shows, both ambiguous and unambiguous in written form, revealed only a difference in amplitude variabili...

Objectives To study the incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) palsy in Total thyroidectomy done for multinodular goitre. Surgical safety of total thyroidectomy in Multinodular goitre and type of vocal cord paralysisstudied. Voice changes in immediate post-operative period and within three weeks following total thyroidectomy are assessed. Materials &Methods: A prospective, longitudinal an...

A 60 year old lady presented to the emergency room with 2 days history of abdominal distention, colicky pain and constipation. Her chest x-ray showed pneumoperitoneum. She underwent exploratory laparotomy the same day. She was found to have a tumour of the sigmoid colon alongwith caecal perforation. A subtotal colonic resection with ileocolic anastomosis was performed. Her preoperative assessme...

Familial bilateral abductor vocal cord paralysis is a rare entity with few prior descriptions in the literature. Modes of inheritance include X-linked, autosomal recessive, and autosomal dominant. A case of this condition in a father and son is presented. Signs and symptoms at presentation, diagnosis, therapeutic considerations, and modes of inheritance are discussed.

On encountering a predator, many species emit potentially risky vocalizations known as alarm calls. We evaluated the relative importance of two adaptive hypotheses on the evolution of calling: (1) communicating to predators, which may function by deterring pursuit and hence increasing individual survival, and (2) an alternative nepotistic hypothesis for alarm calling whereby callers obtain dire...

We report four experiments that explored the cognitive bases of vocal imitation. Specifically, we investigated the accuracy with which normal individuals vocally imitated the pitch-time trajectories of spoken sentences and sung melodies, presented in their original form and with phonetic information removed. Overall, participants imitated melodies more accurately than sentences with respect to ...