Evaluation of the mobile phone electromagnetic radiation on serum iron parameters in rats.

Background: Electromagnetic fields (EMF) created by mobile phones during communication have harmful effects on different organs.

Objectives: It was aimed to investigate the effects of an EMF created by a mobile phone on serum iron level, ferritin, unsaturated iron binding capacity and total iron binding capacity within a rat experiment model.

Methods: A total of 32 male Wistar albino rats were randomly divided into the control, sham, mobile phone speech (2h/day) and stand by (12 h/day) groups.

Peripapillary choroidal thickness in healthy Turkish subjects.

Aim: The objective of the study reported here was to investigate the normal peripapillary choroidal thickness (CT), measured by enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT), in healthy Turkish volunteers.

Materials And Methods: In this prospective cross-sectional study, 57 eyes of 57 healthy Turkish subjects were enrolled. Each participant underwent a comprehensive ophthalmic examination and peripapillary CT measurement using EDI-OCT.

Estimation of the brain stem volume by stereological method on magnetic resonance imaging.

Neuron loss that occurs in some neurodegenerative diseases can lead to volume alterations by causing atrophy in the brain stem. The aim of this study was to determine the brain stem volume and the volume ratio of the brain stem to total brain volume related to gender and age using new Stereo Investigator system in normal subjects. For this purpose, MR images of 72 individuals who have no pathologic condition were evaluated.

Computed tomography based measurement of the dimensions of foramen ovale and rotundum in trigeminal neuralgia.

Objectives: To compare sizes of the foramen ovale and rotundum in trigeminal neuralgia (TN) patients and healthy individuals on CT images.

Methods: Twenty-one TN patients and 24 healthy volunteers were included in this retrospectively designed study, carried out at the Department of Anatomy, Medical School, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey, between May 2004 and August 2009. The dimension of the foramen ovale on the cross-sectional images, and the foramen rotundum on coronal sections on CT images were examined.

Coronary sinus dilatation. A simple additional echocardiographic indicator of severe rheumatic mitral and tricuspid valve disease.

Objective: To evaluate the usefulness of examining the coronary sinus (CS) anatomic diameter as an additional surrogate marker of severity in chronic rheumatic valve disease (RVD).

Methods: In this cross-sectional observational study, we echocardiographically analyzed 88 patients with RVD, and 104 normal subjects in the Department of Cardiology, Gaziantep University Medical Faculty, Gaziantep, Turkey between February 2007 and April 2007. Echocardiographically all valve regurgitation, stenosis, left ventricular function, left/right atrial volume, and pulmonary artery pressure were obtained.

Double right coronary artery: review of literature.

Anomalies of the coronary artery are often asymptomatic and uncommon. We report an extremely rare coronary artery anomaly, a double right coronary artery. A 50-year-old male patient was hospitalized with the diagnosis of unstable angina pectoris.

The effect of age and gender on the anatomic structure of Caucasian healthy eyelids.

Objectives: To determine the normal values of the eyelid parameters in Caucasians and to describe the effects of age and gender on eyelid and eyebrow anatomy.

Methods: We evaluated the effects of age and gender on eyelid structures in 100 Caucasian volunteers in the Ophthalmology and Anatomy Departments, University of Gaziantep Medical School, Turkey between 2003 and 2004. Forty-five females with mean age of 36 years (5-80 years) and 55 males with mean age of 39 years (3-68 years) participated in the study.

Unilateral nystagmus in an infant with acrocallosal syndrome.

Acrocallosal syndrome (ACS), is an extremely rare disorder characterized by the absence of corpus callosum (CC), macrocephaly, hypertelorism, pre- and postaxial polydactyly and severe motor and mental retardation. There are only 3 reports of ACS associated with ocular findings, including optic atrophy, esotropia and anophthalmus. We report on the first known Turkish case of ACS associated with unilateral nystagmus in addition to several neurologic abnormalities such as absence of the adhesio interthalamica and many others.

Severe monilethrix associated with intractable scalp pruritus, posterior subcapsular cataract, brachiocephaly, and distinct facial features: a new variant of monilethrix syndrome?

Monilethrix is a rare developmental hair shaft defect characterized by small elliptical node-like deformities with increased hair fragility resulting in partial or diffuse alopecia. The disorder is usually transmitted in an autosomal dominant fashion with incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity, but autosomal recessive inheritance has also been reported. It is thought to be without systemic involvement, whereas keratosis pilaris and follicular papules are almost invariably associated features.

Hippocampal volume in schizophrenia and its relationship with risperidone treatment: a stereological study.

The purpose of this study was to assess the significance of the hippocampal volume differences and its relation with risperidone treatment in schizophrenia. In schizophrenic patients who were on risperidone treatment (n = 11) and in healthy volunteers (n = 11), volumes of the hippocampi were estimated using magnetic resonance images (MRIs). A detailed systematic series of coronal MRIs of the entire brain (3 mm thickness, T(1)-weighted, TR/TE 400/10 ms) was obtained for each subject.

A magnetic resonance imaging study of the adhesio interthalamica in schizophrenia.

Several recent studies have found a relationship between midline cerebral malformations (cavum septi pellucidum, absence of the adhesio interthalamica) and schizophrenia. In this study, we investigated whether the adhesio interthalamica is more often absent in patients with schizophrenia than healthy cases and whether the absence of the adhesio interthalamica may be related to the volume of the third ventricle. Twenty-six patients (11 male, 15 female) in the schizophrenia group and twenty-nine (11 male, 18 female) cases in the control group were examined by MRI.