A comparison of bone age assessments using automated and manual methods in children of Indian ethnicity.

Background: Bone age is useful for pediatric endocrinologists in evaluating various disorders related to growth and puberty. Traditional methods of bone age assessment, namely Greulich and Pyle (GP) and Tanner-Whitehouse (TW), have intra- and interobserver variations. Use of computer-automated methods like BoneXpert might overcome these subjective variations.

Early surgical intervention for nasal deformity in Binder's syndrome.

Objective: To assess benefits of surgical intervention at an early age and focus on surgical techniques using exclusively autologous cartilage grafts.

Methods: Five children aged 8-15 years, treated between March 2016 and 2020, underwent augmentation rhinoplasty using autologous cartilage, with post-operative follow up ranging from 1.5 to 2 years.

Non-surgical Rhinoplasty and Use of Hyaluronic Acid Based Dermal Filler-User Experience in Few Subjects.

This study was intended to assess the utility of hyaluronic acid dermal fillers in patients who do not wish surgery in addition to the patients with minor post-surgery asymmetries. This was a prospective study which included post-surgery patients for minor nasal asymmetries, patients unwilling for surgery and those waiting for revision surgery. It is of great use in candidates who do not wish surgery but had the desire for different nasal appearance especially for important life events like marriage etc.

Impact of Classroom Determinants on Psychosocial Aspects of Voice Among School Teachers of Indore, India: A Preliminary Survey.

Teaching voice is the professional voice; often different in quality from our day-to-day speaking voice, and is supposed to be subjected to vocal abuse, misuse and overuse. This paper aims towards highlighting  the various classroom determinants that may impact teacher's voice and how these impacts can affect the daily activities in terms of functional emotional and psychosocial aspects. To understand the same, a cross sectional prospective study was conducted across eight English medium institutions of Indore (a city in central India) region.

Retroperitoneoscopic pyelolithotomy: a minimally invasive alternative for the management of large renal pelvic stone.

Introduction: Large stones in renal pelvis can be treated with percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) or pyelolithotomy (either by open or laparoscopic techniques). PCNL is difficult in undilated system. For pyelolithotomy, laparoscopy is more preferable over the open surgery.

Complexity of neutral zones, lumbar stability and subsystem adaptations: probable alterations in lumbosacral transitional vertebrae (LSTV) subtypes.

Physiological and anatomical ranges of movements at lumbar and lumbo-sacral motion segments are influenced by passive (bones and ligaments) and active (muscles) elements. The movements are visualized in terms of intrinsically unopposed (Neutral Zones) or opposed (Transitional Zones) movement zones. These two zones constitute the absolute ranges of motion for different regions of the spine.

Facet dimensions, orientation, and symmetry at L5-S1 junction in lumbosacral transitional States.

Study Design: Study analyses dimensions, angular orientations, and symmetry of articular facets at the L5-S1 junction associated with transitional anomalies comprising (1) L5-S1 accessory articulations; (2) complete sacralization of the L5 vertebrae; and (3) completely lumbarized S1 sacral segments. Data were compared with same parameters evaluated in normal sacrum.

Objective: Investigating probable morphologic differences in facet joints at the normal and transition affected lumbosacral junctions.

Characterization of cortico-cancellous bone along the iliac crest: focus on graft harvesting.

Purpose: The iliac crests are rich sources of cortical as well as cancellous bone. Though the proportions of cortico-cancellous tissue vary along the crest, a detailed morphometric characterization of the osseous tissue along the iliac crest is hard to come across in literature. This paucity of anatomical data on the quantity of cortical and cancellous bone along the iliac blade has prompted this study.

Morphological traits in sacra associated with complete and partial lumbarization of first sacral segment.

Background Context: Transitional states of vertebrae at the lumbosacral junction are associated with low back pain. Lumbarization may present as partial (incomplete separation of S1-S2 bodies and their neural arches) or complete separation of the S1 from the S2 segment in a sacrum. Separation of S1 entails alteration of the anatomy at the lumbosacral junction that affects load bearing at the region.

Morphometric analysis and identification of characteristic features in sacra bearing accessory articulations with L5 vertebrae.

Background Context: Occurrence of transitional vertebrae at the lumbosacral junction, especially accessory lumbosacral articulations (partial sacralization of the L5 vertebrae), is not uncommon. These transitional states are frequently associated with low back pain situations requiring surgical intervention.

Purpose: The study aimed to investigate the presence of distinct morphological features and structural peculiarities associated with these sacra.

Complete sacralization of L5 vertebrae: traits, dimensions, and load bearing in the involved sacra.

Background Context: Spines with sacralized fifth lumbar vertebrae are quite commonly encountered. Sacralizations represent a transitional state at lumbosacral junctions and are more susceptible to degenerative changes resulting from the altered load-bearing patterns at these regions.

Purpose: The present study is an attempt to analyze the morphology of sacra with complete and partially fused (sacralized) L5 vertebrae and compare it with those observed in normal sacra.

Obliterated, fibrous omphalo-mesenteric duct in an adult without Meckel's diverticulum or vitelline cyst.

Vitello-intestinal [omphalo-mesenteric duct (OMD)] connects the developing mid-gut to the primitive yolk sac, provides nutrition to the embryo and remains patent and connected to the intestines until the fifth to ninth week of gestational period. Varied remnants of the vitello-intestinal duct have been reported. The present case-report describes a completely obliterated fibrous remnant of the duct.