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Copyright of Orthodontie Française is the property of John Libbey Eurotext Ltd. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Orthodontie Française is the property of John Libbey Eurotext Ltd. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Orthodontie Française is the property of John Libbey Eurotext Ltd. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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Abstract: Few human fossils are known in Turkey and no Homo erectus has been discovered until now. In this respect, the newly discovered partial skull from Kocabaş is very important: (1) to assess the pattern of the first settlements throughout the Old World; and (2) to document the extension of the species H. erectus to the west of continental Asia. Using CT data and 3D imaging techniques, this specimen was reconstructed and a more detailed analysis was done, including the inner anatomical features. The preliminary results of this study highlight that the fossil hominid from Kocabaş is close to the H. erectus species regarding the following cranial patterns: presence of a clear post-orbital constriction, strong development of the frontal brow-ridge with a depressed supratoral area in the lateral part, as well as endocranial patterns such as the development and orientation of the middle meningeal artery and the presence of a frontal bec. The Kocabaş skull is morphologically very close to the fossils from Zhoukoudian L-C. The partial Kocabaş skull is the oldest H. erectus known in Turkey and the only one from this species to have settled so far west in Asia. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Recent applications of 3D virtual imaging techniques in human palaeontology have increased the possibilities and the accuracy of anthropological analysis. Two examples are given for the reconsideration of fossils discovered more than 20years ago, thanks to this new technology. The Lower and Middle Pleistocene skulls from Yunxian and Nankin in China, which were damaged in the process of fossilization, have been virtually reconstructed. A detailed reinvestigation has been conducted by considering those reconstructed skulls and their unpublished characters (i.e., inner anatomical features inaccessible until now). The results of this analysis provide new information about the early hominids of China and contribute to the discussion of variability in Homo erectus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: Introduction: Breast plastic surgery still remains subjective with no objective measurement tool to evaluate and to predict our results. In this aim, we did an evaluation of a new 3D surface measurement tool using the structured projected light technology (Inspeck®) in breast surgery. Material and method: We evaluated the different measurement tools available (euclidean distance, projected on the surface distance, and volume measurement) with the numerisation system on distance and silicone prosthesis of known length and volume. These measurements were done experimentally and on patients. We also numerised more than 50 patients to evaluate the feasibility of this technology in current practice. Results: We manage to highlight the advantages of this technology compared to other technology in terms of feasibility, restrictions, harmlessness and reproducibility. This tool is well adapted for a use in current practice. Only the volume measurement tool has to be improved. Conclusion: The perspectives of 3D numerisation with structured light projection are wide in clinical practice. It could bring a bit of objectivity in breast plastic surgery. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The aim of this study was to analyze the mechanism of the skull deformation observed in frontal and occipital plagiocephaly without synostosis.Population and methods. – From 1987 to 2001, 96 plagiocephalies without synostosis, 72 males and 24 females, were examined. There were 72 Frontal Plagiocephalies (FP) and 24 Occipital Plagiocephalies (OP). The clinical examination of the neck muscles was performed to find out a torticolis with or without retraction. All patients underwent a 3D CT scan of the skull to exclude a craniostenosis. Cephalic Index (CI) was also calculated.Results. – The FP had a torticollis in 89.3% of cases associated with a muscle retraction (54.8%), a tonus asymmetry (16.6%), or in association (28.6%). The skull had a parallelepiped shape and the greater axis was oblique. The CI was 0.85. The OP had a torticollis in 50% of case associated with a retraction (28.6%), a tonus asymmetry (57.1%), or the association (14.3%). The skull had a square shape with an occipital flat and the CI was 0.95.Discussion. – The FP and OP are two deformations whose mechanism is different. The FP corresponds to a three plans skull asymmetry secondary to muscle traction on the base of the skull, and the OP corresponds to a posterior localized asymmetry of the skull secondary to compression.Conclusion. – The traction and/or compression deformation start in utero or in the newborn period and the supine position is an aggravating positional factor. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Résumé La prospective n’a pas pour objet de prédire l’avenir, de nous le dévoiler, comme s’il s’agissait d’une chose déjà faite, mais de nous aider à le construire. Si le contexte épidémiologique et thérapeutique actuel de ces tumeurs urogénitales peut évoluer en 10 ans, les méthodes diagnostiques et thérapeutiques d’aujourd’hui, ainsi que les concepts de prise en charge et l’implémentation des innovations sont déjà en pleine mutation. Plutôt que de focaliser la prospective à 10 ans uniquement sur la thérapeutique des cancers, nous chercherons à proposer une vision globale sanitaire incluant diagnostics, thérapeutiques, préventions, et l’utilisation en routine de la technomédecine, la génômique ou encore la nanomédecine. Ce voyage, dans un futur proche dans la cancérologie de demain, promet d’être plus adapté à l’évolution du mode de penser la médecine. L’exercice d’imagination de la manière dont nous traiterons les tumeurs rénales, prostatiques et urothéliales dans 10 ans, est autant une introspection au sein de notre actuel système de soins, que la manière dont nous souhaitons et pouvons le voir évoluer. Forward thinking does not seek to predict the future, to unveil it as if it were already in existence, rather, its aim is to help us to construct it. Although today's epidemiological and therapeutic situations for urogenital tumours can evolve over the next 10 years, diagnostic and therapeutic methods, as well as the treatment and implementation of innovations, are already rapidly changing. Rather than reducing our prospective thinking to the therapeutic treatment of cancer only, we will aim at proposing a global sanitary vision that includes diagnosis, therapies, prevention, routine utilisation of technomedicine, genomics and even nanomedicine. This journey into the near future of tomorrow's cancerology holds the promise of being better adapted to the evolution of the medical thinking process. Imagining the way we will be treating renal, prostatic and urothelial tumours in 10 years’ time is as much an introspection into our present day treatment system as a projection into its hoped for future evolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]