Background: Salivatory seizures are a singularly rare condition, which can occur both in idiopathic and symptomatic epilepsies. Objectives: To describe and discuss the case of an adolescent patient with sleep-triggered “pure” salivatory seizures associated with a subtle cortical malformation of the right parietal cortex. Case report: Herein, we report a 17-year-old female who started to present...

Background. Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is a frequent cause of medically intractable partial epilepsy of extra-temporal lobe origin. MRI characteristics of focal cortical dysplasia include cortical thickening, poor distinction between gray and white matter transition, and white matter abnormalities such as clusters of abnormal neurons. In many cases, FCD can be detected on MRI, facilitating ...

Paget disease uncommonly affects the hand. When it does, radiographic findings are same as when the disease occurs elsewhere. Eleven new cases that demonstrate four predominant radiographic patterns are described: homogeneous sclerosis, trabecular coarsening, cortical thickening, and lysis. The homogeneous sclerosis pattern was associated with monostotic hand disease. One patient developed bila...

BACKGROUND Recent data suggests that in chronic pain there are changes in gray matter consistent with decreased brain volume, indicating that the disease process may produce morphological changes in the brains of those affected. However, no study has evaluated cortical thickness in relation to specific functional changes in evoked pain. In this study we sought to investigate structural (gray ma...

flow characteristics and rheological parameters of “malas yazdi” pomegranate (punica granatum l.) juice were investigated using rotational viscometer at different temperatures (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70ºc) and concentrations (12, 22, 32, 42 and 52º brix). the experimental data had the best fitness with herschel-bulkley model and the values of flow behavior index (n) varied between 0.97 and ...

Hyperostosis frontalis interna (HFI) has been reported in high frequency among post-menopausal elderly women. Although it was widely discussed in the past, this entity is rarely mentioned in the current pathology literature. We report a postmortem case of a 56 yr-old post-menopausal woman with irregular thickening of the internal surface of the frontal bone. Histology revealed an organized trab...

In comparative and developmental neuroanatomy one encounters questions regarding the deformation of neural tissue under stress. The motivation of this note is an observation (Barbas et al[1]) that at cortical folds or gyri, the layers of neural tissue show relative thickening or thinning of upper or deep layers. In general, the material properties of a slab of neural tissue are not known, and e...

BACKGROUND The Zweymüller stem is well-known in Europe and widely used for total hip replacement since 1980. Few authors have noted the presence of increased bone density below the tip of the stem; however, the underlying mechanism is still unknown. The aim of this study was to reveal factors influencing bone remodeling around the tip of the Zweymüller stem. MATERIAL AND METHODS 102 consecuti...