Self-perspective in episodic memory after parietal damage and in healthy ageing.

Although there is strong support from functional imaging studies for lateral parietal lobe involvement in episodic memory, patients with damage to these regions do not appear to suffer from severe deficits in this cognitive domain. As such there has been no definitive explanation of this area's precise involvement. Here, we hypothesised that parietal regions play a crucial role in episodic memory - specifically in recollecting details from an egocentric perspective.

Developmental changes in the control of saccadic eye movements in response to directional eye gaze and arrows.

We investigated developmental differences in oculomotor control between 10-year-old children and adults using a central interference task. In this task, the colour of a fixation point instructed participants to saccade either to the left or to the right. These saccade directions were either congruent or incongruent with two types of distractor cue: either the direction of eye gaze of a centrally presented schematic face, or the direction of arrows.

Primary lymph node gastrinoma or occult duodenal microgastrinoma with lymph node metastases in a MEN1 patient: the need for a systematic search for the primary tumor.

Gastrinoma tissue has been found frequently in lymph nodes located near the duodenum without a known primary tumor. Therefore, it has been suggested that a primary lymph node gastrinoma exists. We report on a 38-year-old woman suffering from multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) confirmed by menin gene mutation analysis.

[Metastasis to the lateral skull base].

Background: Tumours and metastases of the lateral skull base are rare findings. Clinically, the progressive involvement of ipsilateral cranial nerves is important.

Case Report: A 69-year-old man presented with headache and palsies of the facial nerve and nerve VI.

[Johann Friedrich Meckel the Younger (1781-1833) and modern teratology].

Among other special topics Johann Friedrich Meckel the Younger concentrated his scientific researches on the systematic investigations of the human and animal malformations. He explored many samples which were part of his private anatomical collection. Today, the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology possesses a number of important teratological preparations which Meckel and his graduate students minutely investigated (e.

Cerebral heterotopia appearing as an extranasal polyp.

Cerebral heterotopia represents a rare tumorlike lesion related in its development to the encephaloceles but differing from these by non-connection to the cranial cavity. We describe an unusual case of cerebral heterotopia appearing as a pedunculated polyp on the upper lip of a newborn. As the distinction between encephaloceles and cerebral heterotopias is based on the correlation of radiologic and clinical findings, the surgical treatment of tumorlike lesions of the nasal and pharyngeal region in children requires a careful preoperative evaluation of their possible connection to the cranial cavity.

Familial arhinia, choanal atresia, and microphthalmia.

We describe two females (aunt and niece) with variable manifestations of arhinia, choanal atresia, microphthalmia, and hypertelorism. In the literature there is only one report on this syndrome in sibs. We hypothesize autosomal dominant inheritance with reduced penetrance.

[Rare inflammatory reactions in infants and their correlation with pathomorphologic alterations of the immune system].

Autopsy-findings in infants with rare inflammatory disorders or infectious diseases esp. opportunistic infections may suggest defects of the unspecific and specific defence. The histopathological appearances of different lesions were correlated with possible underlying alterations or generalized defects of the immune system.

[Antepartal diagnosis of an acardius in a triplet pregnancy using ultrasound].

In fetal anomalies we can follow the course by repeated ultrasound examinations and so decide the therapy. For collection of experience all rare cases should be published. Beginning in 25th gestational week we observed a triplet pregnancy, in which one fetus was a severe malformed acardius.

[Morphology and differential histological diagnosis of BCG histiocytosis].

Two cases of mycobacterial histiocytosis in infants with the morphological signs of a combined immune defect are reported. In the first case the seven months aged male infant died of a generalized BCG infection. In the second case the mycobacterial histiocytosis of mesenterial lymph nodes was an incidental finding of autopsy in a female infant four month of age, whose cause of death was a generalized cytomegaly.