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The oldest Brazilian snakes from the cenomanian (Early Late Cretaceous) [PDF]

, 2014
South American Mesozoic snake diversity is mostly represented by genera from the Cenomanian (Najash), Santonian- Campanian (Dinilysia), and Campanian-Maastrichtian (Alamitophis, Patagoniophis, Rionegrophis, and Australophis) of Patagonia, Argentina.
Albino, Adriana Maria, Hsiou, Annie, Medeiros, Manuel, Santos, Ronny   +3 more
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Experimental studies on diagnosis of death from drowning by means of detection of vegetative planktons (diatoms) II. Detection of diatoms from putrefied and cremated bones of drowned bodies [PDF]

, 1961
A series of experiments have been conducted with ten adult rabbits, drowning them to death in a ditch those water contains diatoms in abundance. The bones (selected ones are the femur, humerus, riHand vertebra) of these drowned rabbits have been buried ...
Okuyama, Masami
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Effects Induced by Osteophytes on the Strain Distribution in the Vertebral Body Under Different Loading Configurations

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021
The mechanical consequences of osteophytes are not completely clear. We aimed to understand whether and how the presence of an osteophyte perturbs strain distribution in the neighboring bone.
Daniele Marras, Marco Palanca, Marco Palanca, Luca Cristofolini   +3 more
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Experimental ex-vivo validation of PMMA-based bone cements loaded with magnetic nanoparticles enabling hyperthermia of metastatic bone tumors [PDF]

, 2017
Percutaneous vertebroplasty comprises the injection of Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) bone cement into vertebrae and can be used for the treatment of compression fractures of vertebrae.
Crevecoeur, Guillaume, Dupré, Luc, Harabech, Mariem, MAENHOUDT, WIM, Rungevics Kiselovs, Normunds, Van Roost, Dirk   +5 more
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Interleukin‐6 as a Key Biomarker in Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy: Evidence From Longitudinal Analyses

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 1 (FSHD1) is a progressive neuromuscular disorder with no approved treatments. Identifying reliable biomarkers is critical to monitor disease severity, activity, and progression. Interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) has been proposed as a candidate biomarker, but longitudinal validation is limited ...
Jonathan Pini, Emanuela Martinuzzi, Sandra Dhifallah, Abderhmane Slioui, Angela Puma, Luisa Villa, Michele Cavalli, Andra Ezaru, Jérémy Garcia, Manuela Gambella, Federico Torre, Luca Jacopo Pavan, Nicolas Glaichenhaus, Sabrina Sacconi   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Focused extracorporeal shockwave therapy for the treatment of low back pain: a systematic review

Frontiers in Medicine
IntroductionLow back pain (LBP) is a common condition affecting up to 84% of people in their lifetime, with a prevalence of 11.9% and a high recurrence rate within the first year. Furthermore, chronic low back pain syndrome has been described in up to 7%,
Dilyan Ferdinandov, Dilyan Ferdinandov, Dilyan Ferdinandov   +2 more
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Effect of Lowest Instrumented Vertebra on Trunk Mobility in Patients With Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Undergoing a Posterior Spinal Fusion [PDF]

, 2014
Study Design Prospective. Objectives The goal of this study was to evaluate the effect of posterior spinal fusion surgery terminating at different lowest instrumented vertebrae (LIV) on trunk mobility in individuals with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (
Anissipour, Alireza K., Graf, Adam, Gupta, Purnendu, Hammerberg, Kim W., Harris, Gerald F., Hassani, Sahar, Krzak, Joseph, Riordan, Mary, Sturm, Peter F., Tarima, Sergey, Udoekwere, Ubong I.   +10 more
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Scoliosis Surgery in a Patient With Advanced Friedreich's Ataxia—It Is Not Too Late

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Friedreich's ataxia is a multisystem disorder with scoliosis being the most common non‐neurological manifestation. While scoliosis surgery is typically performed in adolescent, ambulatory patients, few data exist on surgical outcomes in patients with advanced disease.
Kathrin Reetz, Stella A. Lischewski, Jörg B. Schulz, Maximilian Praster, Miguel Pishnamaz, on behalf of the FACROSS study group, Imis Dogan, Sandro Romanzetti, Ravi Dadsena, Kerstin Konrad, Thomas Clavel, Vera Jankowski, Joachim Jankowski, Oliver Pabst, Nikolaus Marx, Julia Moellmann, Malte Jacobsen, Katharina Marx‐Schütt, Juergen Dukart, Simon Eickhoff, Ralf‐Dieter Hilgers   +20 more
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An Osteological Study of Occipitocervical Synostosis: Its Embryological and Clinical Significance [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2013
Background: Synostosis or fusion of atlas with occipital bone is known as occipitocervical synostosis, occipitalization of the atlas, or atlanto-occipital fusion. This is a rare congenital malformation at craniovertebral junction. Its incidence ranges
Radhika Paramesh Mudaliar, Shailaja Shetty, Komala Nanjundaiah, Prathap Kumar J, Jyothi KC   +4 more
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A traitor's death? The identity of a drawn, hanged and quartered man from Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire [PDF]

, 2008
Analysis of a set of bones redeposited in a medieval abbey graveyard showed that the individual had been beheaded and chopped up, and this in turn suggested one of England's more gruesome I execution practices. Since quartering was generally reserved for
Lewis, Mary Elizabeth
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