Anatomical and immunohistochemical analyses of the fusion of the premaxillary-maxillary suture in human fetuses.

Purpose: The development of the premaxillary-maxillary suture (PMS) in human fetuses and a possible association between the fusion time of the PMS and maxillary deficiency were investigated. Expression of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β1 and TGF-β3) and of fibulins (fibulin‑1 and fibulin-5) were also investigated.

Methods: We analyzed 36 human fetus cadavers (19 males, 17 females; average age 23.

Effect of stress-induced hyperglycemia after non-traumatic non-aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage on clinical complications and functional outcomes.

Background: Despite having an overall benign course, non-traumatic non-aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (naSAH) is still accompanied by a risk of clinical complications and poor outcomes. Risk factors and mechanisms of complications and poor outcomes after naSAH remain unknown. Our aim was to explore the effect of stress-induced hyperglycemia (SIH) on complication rates and functional outcomes in naSAH patients.

[Application of next generation sequencing in 3 Waardenburg syndrome].

To test the gene sequence of 3 patients with Waardenburg syndrome（WS） using the next generation sequencing technology in order to explore the possible mechanism of molecular genetics. Medical histories of the family members were collected. Physical examination, audiological evaluation and CT examination were performed.

Sensory recovery and oral health-related quality of life following tongue reconstruction using non-innervated radial forearm free flaps.

Objectives: This study aimed to monitor the recovery of somatosensory function and oral health-related quality of life after tongue reconstruction using a non-innervated radial forearm free flap (RFFF).

Methods: Twenty patients (9 men, age: 42-67 years) underwent tongue reconstruction with non-innervated RFFFs, and twenty age- and sex-matched controls were included in this study. Quantitative sensory testing (QST), including cold, warm, and mechanical detection thresholds (CDT, WDT, MDT); cold, heat, and mechanical pain thresholds (CPT, HPT, MPT); and static two-point, sharp/blunt, and direction discrimination (S2-PD, S/BD, DD) were determined 9 months and 18 months after surgery on the surgical (9 M, 18 M) and contralateral sides (9Mc, 18Mc).

A study on facial features of children with Williams syndrome in China based on three-dimensional anthropometric measurement technology.

To describe special facial features of children with Williams syndrome in China by using method of three-dimensional craniofacial anthropometry. Using three-dimensional stereo photogrammetric device, 14 craniofacial anthropometric measurements were performed and five indices were calculated in 52 children with Williams syndrome and 208 age and sex matched controls of Han Chinese ethnicity. Except intercanthal width, mouth breadth, morphological face height, nasal height-breadth index, nasal breadth-depth index, morphological ear index, the Williams syndrome group under 3 years old were smaller than the control group in the other 12 variables.