Objective: The aims of this study were to evaluate the efficacy of conservative treatment in patients with and without cervical ribs and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS). From so many kinds of conservative treatment in literature, we used a multidisciplinary approach (correction of posture, maximizing muscle endurance and power, stretch shorten muscles, massage for trigger points and maximize tho...

Adult large-bodied theropods are often found with numerous pathologies. A large, almost complete, probably adult Allosaurus specimen from the Howe Stephens Quarry, Morrison Formation (Late Kimmeridgian-Early Tithonian), Wyoming, exhibits multiple pathologies. Pathologic bones include the left dentary, two cervical vertebrae, one cervical and several dorsal ribs, the left scapula, the left humer...

Serially homologous systems with high internal differentiation frequently exhibit meristic constraints, although the developmental basis for constraint is unknown. Constraints in the counts of the cervical and lumbosacral vertebral series are unique to mammals, and appeared in the Triassic, early in their history. Concurrent adaptive modifications of the mammalian respiratory and locomotor syst...

A 72-year-old woman 12 years status-post partial mastectomy, adjuvant radiation, and five years of anastrozole for stage I estrogen receptor/progesterone receptor positive breast adenocarcinoma presented with neck pain. MRI showed extensive metastatic disease involving the skull and the vertebral bodies of the cervical and thoracic spine. She was started on dexamethasone. Bone scan revealed mul...

Klippel-Feil Syndrome (KFS), also known as synostosis of cervical spine, is sporadic, but seldom may be inherited [1,2]. The absence of population screening studies has made it impossible to define the exact incidence and prevalence of KFS. Nevertheless, it has been estimated that it occurs in approximately 1:40,000 to 1:42,000 births [3]. KFS, or synostosis of the cervical spine, occurs as a r...

Meristic variation is often limited in serially homologous systems with high internal differentiation and high developmental modularity. The mammalian neck, an extreme example, has a fixed (at seven) count of diversely specialized segments. Imposition of the mammalian cervical constraint has been tentatively linked to the origin of the diaphragm, which is muscularized by cells that migrate from...

costochondral and rib grafts have long been used for reconstruction of lost condyle. donor site morbidity has less been under investigation and researched. pleural disruption pneumothorax and ugly scars are among the donor site complications. this study aims to determine the rate of pleural disruption following costochondral graft harvesting from the 4th to the 7th ribs of right and left ribs f...