Morphological aspects in tuberculosis of oral cavity - our experience and a review of the literature attempt.

Aim: The authors continue a started series of articles about extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) with the assessment of the mycobacterial lesions discovered on tissue samples of the oral cavity structures in the Department of Pathology of the Emergency County Hospital of Craiova, Romania, and the review of the cases reported in the literature available, between 1990 and 2013.

Materials And Methods: The studied material consisted, for our series, of samples obtained by biopsy or surgical excision, including the salivary glands and excluding the lymph nodes from 17 patients histopathologically diagnosed with tuberculosis and, for review series, 190 papers selected from PubMed database.

Results: The number of cases reported increased throughout the studied period.

Silent sinus syndrome--report of a case.

Introduction: The "silent sinus syndrome" is a rare entity that was first described in 1964 and given this name 30 years later. Although it is well described both from clinically and radiologically point of view we consider that its rarity still makes it a subject for report.

Case Presentation: A 46-year-old patient was admitted for facial asymmetry, diplopia, unilateral left enophthalmos, and inferior displacement of the eye globe, and decreased occlusal pressure in left dentate region.

Analysis of neuromuscular parameters in patients with multiple sclerosis and gait disorders.

Unlabelled: Gait is a motor activity that requires understanding the dynamics and functional anatomical elements that make possible its cyclical conduct. Patients with multiple sclerosis record impaired balance and gait due to the process of demyelination, disorders that can be estimated by quantifying neuromuscular and cortical parameters. The aim of this paper is to present both an analysis of these parameters in the thigh muscles and an evaluation of cortical parameters obtained by visual evoked potentials (VEP).

Malignant ameloblastoma in an 8-year-old child with metastasis to the lung: case report with a clinicopathologic analysis.

Ameloblastomas are rare tumors of odontogenic origin, accounting for 1% of all oral tumors. They are benign, but locally highly aggressive tumors. We report here the unusual case of an 8-year-old patient with multicystic mandibular ameloblastoma, who was submitted to surgery for two relapses in six years and metastasized to the lung two years after initial surgery.

Immunohistochemical and electron microscopy aspects of the nerve structures from the dental pulp.

In this study, we have done an immunohistochemical and an electron microscopy examination of normal and inflamed human dental pulp specimens in order to evaluate the morphological aspects of the nerve structures from the dental pulp. The S100 protein immunohistochemical marking allowed us to observe the trajectory of the pulp nervous structures, which appear as continuous bands of high intensity at radicular level, coronary branch out and some branches cross the odontoblastic layer and penetrate in predentin along the dentinal tubules. It appears that not only the nerve structures are positive S100 protein but also macrophages or dendritic cells.