OBJECTIVES To determine reference ranges for measurements of fetal cerebral fissures by 3-dimensional (3D) sonography in the multiplanar mode and to evaluate the reliability and concordance of these measurements. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on 393 women with normal pregnancies at 22 weeks to 33 weeks 6 days. The distances between the internal bone plate of the fetal calvaria...

The clinical course and radiographic studies were reviewed of eight patients with posttraumatic spinal cord fissures (rents in the spinal cord communicating with the subarachnoid space). Five patients had spinal cord fissures associated with symptomatic intramedullary cysts that required shunting to alleviate progressive neurologic deficits and intractable pain. Their metrizamide myelograms sho...

Transmission and analytical electron microscopy have been used to characterize the numerous lenticular fissures which were observed in electron micrographs of paragonite. Observations with a very weak electron beam revealed that there were no fissures in the original paragonite and that the degree of damage is a function of exposure to the beam. AEM analysis revealed that there is significant l...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: InSAR StaMPS SBAS Land subsidence Ground fissure Fault Geohazards Xi'an Xi'an, China has been undergoing significant land subsidence along with ground fissure development. These geohazards have brought about severe damages to buildings, bridges and other facilities. In order to warn of and mitigate disasters, it is urgently necessary to obtain the latest rate, ex...

BACKGROUND Anal fissure is a common painful condition affecting the anal canal. The majority of acute fissures heal spontaneously. However, some of these acute fissures do not resolve but become chronic. Chronic anal fissures were traditionally treated by anal dilation or by lateral sphincterotomy. However, both of these surgical treatments may cause a degree of incontinence in up to 30% of pat...

Pharmacological therapy of anal fissures reduces maximum resting pressure (MRP), allowing healing by promoting anodermal vascular perfusion. In this thesis the clinical and manometric responses to diltiazem and botulinum toxin and the therapeutic potential of indoramin and salbutamol were investigated. A porcine internal anal sphincter model was developed to validate the responses to pharmacolo...

Background. Day to day advances in the fields of radiology like sonography and CT need to revive interest in the cadaveric study of morphological features of liver, as the accessory fissures are a potential source of diagnostic errors. Accessory fissures vary from single to multiple over different parts of the liver. Aim. In the present study the morphological features of human liver specimens ...

Careful antemortem examination and interpretation of findings, assisted by good clinical records, do much to throw light on the nature of vertical fissure in cattle. During an eight month period of investigation, 13 (3.2%) lame cows with vertical fissure out of 52 Holstein cows with different claw fissures were selected for clinical and gross pathological purposes in a commercial dairy farm wit...

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Y. Mamatha, Associate professor, Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences, Madikeri, Karnataka State, India. E-Mail: [email protected] Background: The lungs are the essential organs of respiration. Fissures are an integral part of human lung. The fissures in lung enhance uniform expansion. These fissures may be complete, incomplete or absent. A detailed knowledge o...