Single visit root canal treatment: incidence of postoperative pain using three different instrumentation techniques

A clinical study was carried out on nonvital maxillary central incisors to evaluate the incidence of postoperative pain following single-visit root canal treatment using three different instrumentation techniques. Ninety teeth from 78 patients whose ages ranged from 14 to 63 years were selected and divided into three groups. Each group (30 teeth) was prepared by a different coronal-to-apical technique using different instrument movement depending upon the technique employed: modified double-flared, crown-downpressureless and balanced force techniques. No difference was observed in the incidence of postoperative pain among the groups.     

The role of ocular torsion in visual measures of vestibular function

This brief review highlights problems in the interpretation of results about perceived postural roll-tilt of human subjects undergoing roll-tilt around their naso-occipital axis, when visual stimuli are used as a means of indicating perception. The otolithic stimulus, which causes the changes in perceived posture, also causes the eyes to roll (or tort). In turn, the altered torsional position of the eye causes the perceived orientation of visual stimuli to change. Consequently, indicators of postural perception, which rely on visual stimuli, are a confounded combination of two factors; the person's perceived postural roll-tilt, and the effect of the otolithic stimulus on ocular torsional position. Consequently, setting of a visual stimulus do not permit direct unambiguous interpretation of a subject's perceived postural roll-tilt.     

下鼓室的应用解剖

目的　探讨颈动脉管、颈静脉窝与下鼓室的变异关系 ,为此区域手术提供可靠的解剖学资料。方法　在XSQ～Ⅱ型手术显微镜下解剖观察了 2 0 0例颞骨标本的下鼓室 ,并用游标卡尺对有关结构进行了测量。结果　下鼓室纵径 0 2 8mm ,横径为 0 85mm ,深为 1 2 8mm。下鼓室底与颈静脉窝相毗邻者见 93 0 %。当颈静脉窝大而上隆时 ,窝顶与鼓室间以薄骨板分隔 ,骨板最薄时仅为 0 2 0mm。颈静脉窝顶突入鼓室腔者占 1 2 5 % ,窝顶有骨质缺损者见 4 0 %。鼓室底与颈动脉管关系随颈动脉位置变化而异 ,有 6 8 0 %的标本颈动脉管位于岬下缘前 1 / 3区 ,4 0 %的标本颈动脉管占据范围达岬下缘后 1 / 3区。结论　下鼓室与颈静脉窝及颈动脉管存在着多种变异关系 ,下鼓室手术及静脉窝区手术应避免损伤颈静脉球及颈内动脉等结构     

视神经管区的临床应用解剖研究

对５０个成人尸头和３０个干性颅骨标本的视神经管区进行了显微解剖学研究，测量了视神经管的长度、口径及管壁的厚度、观察了视神经管内壁的毗邻结构关系，还测量了一些与视神经管减压术有关的数据。讨论了经鼻外筛、蝶窦视神经管减压时值得注意的若干问题。     

腰椎间盘突出症合并椎管内硬膜外血管畸形的解剖与临床特点

目的研究腰椎间盘突出症合并椎管内硬膜外血管畸形的解剖与临床特点。方法2001-2006年期间在我科手术治疗的7例腰椎间盘突出症合并椎管内硬膜外血管畸形,术前行MRI和选择性脊髓血管造影检查,均行椎间盘髓核摘除及畸形血管烧灼切除术。结果术中发现5例硬膜前方畸形血管,2例椎管内大量陈旧积血。术后症状消失或逐渐减轻,随访4年均无复发。根据Macnab疗效评定标准,优5例、良2例,无可及差。结论MRI、脊髓造影、手术探查是腰椎间盘突出症合并椎管内硬膜外血管畸形的主要诊断方法,充分认识其解剖与临床特点,有助于提高诊断准确率及手术疗效。     

Three‐Dimensional Reconstruction of the Optic Canal‐Based on Multislice Helical CT: A Comparison Analysis with Skull Dissection of 40 Postmortem Cases

Decompression operation of the optic canal via the nasal path under endoscope is widely used, but it is both a challenging and controversial method. Unsatisfactory results were largely associated with otolaryngologists' limited understanding of the real anatomical situations of the optic canal before operation. To provide otolaryngologists with the real situations and data preoperation, multislice helical CT was used to reconstruct the images of the optic canal. Using multislice helical CT‐aided three‐dimensional reconstructive methods in combination with direct anatomic measurement, we dissected and analyzed the shape of the optic canal and its anatomic relationship with the adjoining structures in 40 intact postmortem skull samples. The In‐Space technique clearly showed the structure and the related region of the optic canal. The virtual endoscopy technique showed superbly the spatial appearance and topography of the inner optic canal and also gave the inner structure of the optic canal optically. There was no statistic difference in three‐dimensional reconstructive data with that obtained by anatomical measurements and thus can be used to directly instruct the clinic operation. These results demonstrate that a combined In‐Space technique with virtual endoscopy can accurately define the subtle structure and the related region of the optical canal. In conclusion, multislice helical CT‐based three‐dimensional reconstruction is of important value for clinical operations. Anat Rec, 2008. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.     

C7神经移位椎管内吻合腰神经前根重建截瘫屈髋伸膝功能的应用解剖

目的:为C7神经移位椎管内吻合腰神经前根重建截瘫患者屈髋伸膝功能提供解剖学基础。方法:在20例成人尸体标本上,观测L1阶段椎管内L1～4神经前根排列及纤维数、C7神经转移路径距离及坐骨神经可切取长度及远端纤维数。结果:一侧C7神经经椎体前通路跨越椎体中线的长度为(2.4±0.58)cm,可与对侧C7神经编织成束。在L1节段,L1～4神经前支可辨认并能编织成束供吻合。胫神经和腓总神经可切取长度(52.35±2.60)cm,(48.20±2.37)cm能够满足C7至L1段椎管的距离(48.35±3.36)cm。一侧胫神经和腓总神经远端纤维数(26856±112),(25700±156)大于一侧腰L1～4神经前支纤维数(20766±354)。结论:坐骨神经可选择为颈7神经移位重建截瘫下肢功能的桥接神经,双侧C7神经可经椎体前通路编织成束作为动力神经源,在L1阶段椎管内吻合L1～4腰神经前根的具有可行性。     

Temporal response properties of lumbar-projecting vestibulospinal neurons to roll tilt in decerebrate cats

In decerebrate cats, rotation about the longitudinal axis of the animal, leading to sinusoidal stimulation of labyrinth receptors, produces a tonic contraction of limb extensors during side-down tilt ( responses) and of dorsal neck extensors during side-up tilt ( responses). These changes in posture are mediated, at least in part, by lateral vestibular nucleus (LVN) neurons, with response characteristics to stimulation of macular and/or canal receptors that have so far been evaluated at the level of either unidentified vestibulospinal (VS) neurons or vestibulo-collic neurons projecting to the upper cervical cord. In the present study we investigated the dynamics of the responses of VS neurons projecting to the lumbosacral segments of the spinal cord to increasing frequencies of tilt (from 0.026 to 0.32 Hz, ±10°). All the recorded units showed an average phase lead with respect to position of +25.6±5.5° (SE) at the tilt frequency of 0.026 Hz. Most of these neurons (n=32) were particularly activated during side-down tilt ( responses) and showed either a stable phase or an increase in phase lead of the responses with increasing frequency of tilt. At the tilt frequency of 0.026 Hz, the smaller the phase lead of the responses, the larger was the response gain. Moreover, the smaller the phase lead of the responses at that frequency of tilt, the smaller the increase in gain but the larger was the increase in lead of the responses obtained by increasing the stimulation frequency up to 0.32 Hz. Through this set of finely organized changes in unit response characteristics, the overall output of this population of neurons increased, while the phase angle of the responses reached the mean value of +64.9±2.6° (SE), thus becoming more related to the velocity than to the positional signal. The remaining units (n=7), which were mainly activated during side-up tilt ( responses), displayed an increase in phase lag of the responses to increasing frequency of stimulation, which reached the mean value of-118.9±14.5° (SE) at 0.32 Hz. The differences in the dynamic properties of these VS neurons projecting to the lumbosacral cord, with respect to those of previously recorded populations of VS neurons, are discussed.     

Microfilamentous type VI collagen in the hyalinized stroma of the hypertrophied ligamentum flavum

Summary Thickened ligamenta flava obtained from 14 patients with spinal canal stenosis were examined with special reference to type VI collagen. The characteristic histological finding in the thickened area was rupture of normal elastic fibre meshwork with resultant fibrosis which usually appeared hyaline. Using an immunohistological method, collagen types VI, I and III were found to be present in the hyaline matrix. Ultrastructural study revealed many microfilamentous structures of type VI collagen admixed in loosely packed, banded collagen fibres. With differential salt precipitation of pepsin-extracted collagen the existence of type VI collagen was confirmed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis and Western blotting analysis using anti-type VI collagen antibody. Quantification of type VI collagen in pepsin-extracted crude collagen samples by an inhibition enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay showed an increasing amount of type VI collagen in the thickened ligamenta flava compared to the normal ligaments. Thus, increase of type VI collagen is the main contribution to the thickening of the ligamentum flavum. This may represent an adaptational and reparative process associated with disruption of elastic fibres.     

Transcerebellar inhibitory interaction between the bilateral vestibular nuclei and its modulation by cerebellocortical activity

Summary In decerebrate, unanesthetized cats, the brain stem was longitudinally cut at the midline from its dorsal to ventral surface with the cerebellum kept intact, eliminating neural interactions between the bilateral vestibular nuclei through the brain stem.Extracellular spike potentials of vestibular type I neurons identified by horizontal rotation were distinctly inhibited by contralateral vestibular nerve stimulation. This crossed inhibition was abolished by removal of the medial part of the cerebellum, indicating that the inhibition was mediated through the cerebellum. Neither aspiration of the flocculus on the recording side nor intravenous administration of picrotoxin eliminated transcerebellar crossed inhibition, suggesting that it is mediated through the cerebellar nuclei. When the fastigial, interposite and dentate nuclei were stimulated, inhibition of vestibular type I neurons was produced only from the contralateral fastigial nucleus. Cerebellocortical stimulation which inhibited fastigial type I neurons suppressed transcerebellar crossed inhibition. Effective sites for suppression of transcerebellar crossed inhibition were localized to lobules VI and VIIa in the vermal cortex on the side of labyrinthine stimulation.Intracellular recordings were made from type I neurons in the medial vestibular nucleus. Stimulation of the contralateral vestibular nerve and the contralateral fastigial nucleus produced IPSPs in these neurons with the shortest latency of 3.8 msec and 1.8 msec, respectively. The difference between these two latency values approximates the shortest latency of spike initiation of fastigial type I neurons in response to vestibular nerve stimulation. It is postulated that transcerebellar crossed inhibition is mediated through the fastigial nucleus on the side of labyrinthine stimulation.