A 21-year-old normossemic patient sought care in an emergency hospital with a major complaint of neck swelling and pain to breathe, talk, eat and drink water, presenting anodontogenic infection of the lower right first molar tooth that evolved for 9 days with no previous medical assistance. The clinical aspect showed (Figure 1) redness and extensive swelling of hardened consistency of neck, sub...

Pilomatrixomas are benign neoplasms of the hair follicle, presenting as a mass in the head and neck region. Those arising from the parotid region may pose a diagnostic challenge. We present six patients (age range 6 to 68 years) with pilomatrixoma in the head and neck region. The lesions were located in the preauricular region in two cases, and in the periorbital region, the forehead, the neck,...

Posterior neck pain is a common complaint of patients in the pain clinic. The atlas (C1) burst fracture is known to be a cause of posterior neck pain and instability. Although the atlas burst fracture and instability can be discovered by plain X-rays which show lateral mass displacement or widening of the atlantodental interval, assessment of an atlas burst fracture can be difficult if there is...

Gastrointestinal complaints may be the presenting symptoms of trichophytobezoar. We report a patient, who had an epigastric lump and enlarged lymph nodes on the left side of the neck, but without any gastrointestinal complaint. The clinical diagnosis suggested lymphoma or gastric cancer with secondary masses in the cervical lymph nodes. The diagnosis ultimately proved to be tubercular lymphaden...

Pain in the upper limb is a common complaint in adults, and is often attributed to or exacerbated by occupational activities. In many patients there is no demonstrable pathology in the neck or arm to account for the symptom, and this has prompted the hypothesis that such cases might arise through abnormal neural processing of sensory information with a lowering of pain thresholds. In this paper...

Differential diagnosis of conditions that may cause chronic pain in the mandible, cranium, and neck involves a broad range of disorders. In most instances, the site of the complaint can be traced to a specific anatomic site, but frequent overlap in symptoms with other disorders confounds diagnosis, confusing even the expert diagnostician. Often this enigma is compounded by a suspected psycholog...

Case 1.?A Sahnsi male (Sahnsies belong to the criminal tribes in the Punjab), aged 40, arrived at the hospital with the complaint of difficulty in swallowing, and swelling of the neck. Both these complaints started 8 days ago when he was taking cooked meat. His own statement was that a piece of bone was stuck in his oesophagus. Local examination showed a hard brawny swelling of the root of the ...

Metallophthalocyanines (MPc-o-Cou, M = Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu) with fourth period metal ions have been successfully applied as a sensitizer coupled with rubrene (Rub) in photon upconversion based on triplet-triplet annihilation. An upconversion quantum yield (ϕPUC) of up to 4.82% was observed in the CoPc-o-Cou : Rub couple. The absorption and phosphorescence emission spectra showed that the Q bands...

onslaught of drug offenders. The model alcohol offenders have emerged, The Ill. . . crease in the number of drug courts across stands m contr~t ~o ~adl.tz~nal cour~ . the country is staggering. As of 1998, a total of 275 models by combmmg]udlClal supervIsIon drug court programs were in operation, serving an and community-based treatment in an estimated 90,000 offenders (Drug Court Programs effo...