Alternative treatment approach for anterior subgingival dental lesions: Forced eruption using attractive magnets.

This article reports the use of a minimally invasive technique to address a challenging clinical problem in the esthetic zone. The clinical steps taken to achieve forced eruption by 1.5-2.

Tuberculous meningitis-related optic neuritis: recovery of vision with thalidomide in 4 consecutive cases.

Blindness is an uncommon but devastating complication of tuberculosis meningitis. The main causes are chronically raised intracranial pressure (hydrocephalus and/or tuberculomas) or direct involvement of the optic chiasm or optic nerves by the basal arachnoiditis (inflammation and/or compression). Antituberculosis therapy combined with corticosteroids and control of intracranial pressure constitutes the mainstay of therapy for tuberculous meningitis.

Catastrophic intracerebral hemorrhage in a young infant with Wilms tumor.

We present a 7-month-old male infant with stage I Wilms tumor who unexpectedly died from a catastrophic intracerebral hemorrhage, 4 months after completion of chemotherapy and complete surgical resection of the tumor. The precise etiology underlying the fatal event remains unclear as postmortem was refused, but we postulate spontaneous hemorrhage from an underlying cerebral vascular malformation as the most likely cause, which led to the child's unfortunate demise. Although extremely rare, cerebral vascular anomalies have previously been reported in children with Wilms tumor.

Detection of ligands for selectins in the oligosaccharide fraction of human milk.

Background: Human milk contains a large variety of oligosaccharides which show struc tural similarities with ligands for selectins, a family of cell adhesion molecules which are involved in many cell-cell interactions.

Aim Of The Study: Due to their structural similarity with selectin ligands, human milk oligosaccharides were labelled with phosphatidyl ethanolamine to be able to investigate specific effects of antibodies against carbohydrate epitopes.

Methods: Various monoclonal antibodies against physiological selectin ligands were used to determine whether epitopes within human milk oligosaccharides are recognized.