objectives: this study sought to assess the relation of mandibular cortical index (mci) with age, gender and gonial angle size in an iranian adult population using digital panoramic radiography. methods: we evaluated 370 digital panoramic radiographs of patients and divided them into five 10-year age groups. each radiograph was assigned to low (≤120°) or high (≥125°) angle groups in terms of th...

Chronic idiopathic hyperphosphatasia(CIH) or juvenile Paget disease is believed to be a distinct disease characterized by an increase in the serum alkaline phosphatase, cortical thickening and bowing of the long bones, especially the femora. It is a rare autosomal recessive bone disorder, with excessive bone resorption and bone formation. Skeletal malformations in the legs may cause problems in...

Focal thickening of the calvarium, hypoplasia of the white matter, cortical calcifications, and a leptomeningeal drape that enhanced after contrast injection were demonstrated by MR in the parietooccipital region ipsilateral to a facial sebaceous nevus in a patient with epidermal nevus syndrome.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorder of unknown etiology. Although relatively common in children, how this condition affects brain structure and function in a pediatric population remains unclear. Here, we investigate brain changes in adolescents with IBS and healthy controls. Imaging was performed with a Siemens 3 Tesla Trio Tim MRI scanner equipped wit...

Paget’s disease is rare in the Chinese. We present a patient who had a rare monostotic Paget’s disease involving middle diaphysis, distal metaphysis and epiphysis of left femur. Characteristic radiological findings include cortical thickening, coarse trabeculae, osseous expansion and enlargement, and bowing deformity of bone. The patient also had osteo-arthritis of the knee, which can be a comp...

Abstract Background Distinct neuroanatomic subtypes have been identified in never-treated patients with schizophrenia based on cerebral structural abnormalities, but whether antipsychotic-treated would be stratified under the guidance of such previously formed classification remains unclear. Objective The present study aimed to investigate alterations brain structures a predefined morphological...

PURPOSE To determine whether tight glycemic control prevents development of basement membrane (BM) thickening in retinal and glomerular capillaries of diabetic rats and whether the extent to which BM thickening develops is linked to fibronectin (FN) overexpression and the degree of hyperglycemia. METHODS Retinal and renal cortical tissues obtained from the tightly controlled diabetic (TC), po...

The emergence of a new variant of subtrochanteric stress fractures of the femur, affecting patients on oral bisphosphonate therapy, has only recently been described. This fracture is often preceded by pain and distinctive radiographic changes (lateral cortical thickening), and associated with a characteristic fracture pattern (transverse fracture line and medial cortical spike). A retrospective...

Infantile cortical hyperostosis (Caffey disease) is a rare self-limiting inflammatory bony disease of early infancy. We report a 1-month-old Chinese boy with Caffey disease who presented with painful swelling over his shins bilaterally. Physical abuse was initially suspected, but the radiological findings of periosteal thickening over multiple bones (particularly the mandible), symmetrical invo...