Gender Determination from Maxillary Sinus using Computed Tomography Scans - A Radiographic Study.

Aims And Objective: Purpose of this research was to check the precision of gender identification using computed tomography (CT) head and neck scans and volumetric analysis of the maxillary sinus.

Materials And Methods: For 50 patients (25 females and 25 males), left and right maxillary sinus scans were acquired, and linear measurements (width, length, height, and volume) were assessed. Both maxillary sinus measurements' means and standard deviations were computed and contrasted.

The Role of Cross-Sectional Imaging in the Diagnosis of Agenesis of the Dorsal Pancreas: A Case Series.

Background Agenesis of the dorsal pancreas is a rare entity and is caused due to the defective embryological development of the pancreas. The clinical manifestations may range from diabetes mellitus, pancreatitis, and abdominal pain to no symptoms at all. We here present a case series of 10 cases with complete or partial agenesis of the dorsal pancreas.

Suction cannula design for safe microneurosurgery.

Introduction: Suction cannula (SC) is an important instrument for a neurosurgeon. Currently used suction control valves, kept in the sterile field, are controlled by the surgeon, for which he needs to leave the surgical dissection or by assistant or by operation room personnel to adjust the pressure of the equipment (suction machine or central suction), which lies in the unsterile field. Authors studied relationships of the different diameters of SC and the thumb hole (TH) of the SC and present their findings.

Potential health concerns due to elevated nitrate concentrations in groundwater of villages of Vadodara and Chhota Udaipur districts of Gujarat, India.

In an attempt to assess the groundwater quality of Vadodara and Chhota Udaipur districts and check its suitability for drinking purposes, a total of 162 samples (50 samples during pre-monsoon season and 54 samples during post-monsoon season from Vadodara district and 29 samples during both pre- and post-monsoon seasons from Chhota Udaipur district) were collected from 63 villages of both the districts for pre-monsoon and post-monsoon seasons during 2016-17. The analysis was carried out for physicochemical characteristics and the analytical results have been interpreted by graphical representation, correlation and regression analysis and water quality index so that the quality of groundwater can be easily understood. The analytical results were then compared with the Indian Standards Drinking Water-Specification (Second Revision).

Health impact assessment from exposure to trace metals present in atmospheric PM at Ahmedabad, a big city in western India.

Many toxicological studies revealed the deleterious effects on human health induced by trace metals in ambient particulate matter (PM). This study reports the season-dependent water-soluble and total metal mass in PM collected simultaneously over five microenvironments in a semi-arid urban region, Ahmedabad, located in western India. The mineral dust fraction in PM over Bapunagar, Narol, Paldi, Income Tax, and Science City was estimated to be around 39, 45, 47, 44, and 31% during summer (May-June 2017) and 24, 55, 28, 27, and 28% during winter (December 2017-January 2018), respectively, corroborating mineral dust is perennial in the air over Ahmedabad.

Fracture morphology of AO/OTA 31-A trochanteric fractures: A 3D CT study with an emphasis on coronal fragments.

Aims: This study was designed to assess the incidence and morphology of coronal plane fragments in AO/OTA 31-A trochanteric fractures.

Patients And Methods: 156 cases of AO/OTA 31-A trochanteric fractures were retrospectively evaluated. Lateral radiographs were analyzed for the presence of coronal plane fragments followed by analysis of 3D CT reconstructions in these fractures.

Tuberculosis of upper dorsal spine causing respiratory distress due to tracheo-oesophageal compression: an unusual presentation.

A cold abscess causing tracheo-oesophageal compression is quite unusual. A case of a 5-year-old boy with caries spine of D3-D4 vertebrea with respiratory distress due to mediastinal cold abscess pressing over trachea is being reported. Urgent costotransversectomy was done to decompress the cold abscess.

Acute Compressive Ulnar Neuropathy In A Patient Of Dengue Fever: An Unusual Presentation.

Introduction: Dengue haemorrhagic fever is known for its haemorrhagic and neurologic complications. Neurologic complications are caused by three mechanism namely neurotropism, systemic complications causing encephalopathy and postinfectious immune-mediated mechanisms. However acute compressive neuropathy due to haemorrhage is not frequent and we could find no literature describing this.