The hyoid bone is a horseshoe-shaped and a solitary bone located at the neck just above the thyroid cartilage. It consists of a body, two greater cornua and two lesser cornua. In this report, we demonstrated an extra bone variation which is attached to the hyoid bone and located at the left side of its corpus. In addition to this abnormal bone attachment to the corpus, lesser cornua were absent bilaterally. Abnormal bone attachment was approximately 3.79-cm long and 0.38-0.50-cm wide and heads toward the upper left of the hyoid bone. We believe that clinicians should be aware of such abnormalities of the hyoid bone because of the functional and clinical importance of its variations and abnormal relations within nearby structures. These abnormalities have a great importance for the surgical operations and radiological studies of the neck region and for the forensic medicine because of the susceptibility of the hyoid bone to the fractures in relation to the strangulation cases.

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Tek ventrikül kalp, tek ventrikülle beraber çeşitli fonksiyonel ve fizyolojik kusurları içeren nadir bir kardiyak anomalidir. Bu anomali ani kardiyak ölüme neden olabilir. Bu olguda biz hastaneden taburcu olduktan sonra beşinci günde ölen ve defin ruhsatı alınmadan gömülen 71 günlük bebeği sunduk. Otopsi bulgularında tek ventrikül, triküspid atrezisi ve aort koarktasyonu, 134 gram ağırlığında büyük bir kalp vardı. Bu olgu sunumu ile amacımız bu konuyla ilgili yasal gömme prosedürleri, otopsi ve klinik özellikleri sunmaktır.

TAS, M.; GOK, E.; EKINCI, C.; DEVECI, E. & DEVECI, S.Investigation of various events occurring in the brain tissue after calvarial defects in rats. Int. J. Morphol., 34(1):29-33, 2016. SUMMARY:Bone damage and accidents, traumas can alter people's normal life, and damage the soft tissues. In this study, we aimed to investigate in calvarial defects in rats depending on the severity of cerebral contusion injury occurring in the temporal region. The rats were randomly divided into two groups: group 1 (control group), critical size cranial model with no treatment (n= 10); group 2 (14-day synthetic graft group given 7 th day DEXA), critical size cranial model treated with Dexamethasone (0.05 mg/kg intramuscular injection) +Synthetic graft (n= 10) One calvarium defect of 7 mm was made in the parietal bone of each animal under general anesthesia. Calvarial defect results in dilatation of blood vessels, hemorrhage and deterioration was observed in glial fibrillary structures. Additionally, the increase in vascular endothelial growth factor expression showed a positive reaction with glial fibrillary acid protein astrocytes extensions. Apoptotic glial cells stained positive with Bcl-2. Calvarial defects caused by mild brain injury, to be induced by inflammatory cytokines, interrupting glial fibrillary degeneration by affecting the blood brain barrier is thought to promote apoptotic changes.

Background/aim: This study aimed to determine the relationship between nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior (NSSIB) and manners of death. Materials and methods:This study retrospectively evaluated 6604 autopsy cases evaluated at forensic medicine institutes of six major cities of Turkey. The study group consisted of all cases with NSSIB findings. The control group was created from cases without signs of NSSIB.Results: We found that the numbers of possible suicide and homicide cases in the NSSIB (+) group were significantly higher than in the NSSIB (-) group. The possibility of death due to suicide was 3.213 times and homicide was 2.004 times higher than natural deaths in the NSSIB (+) group compared with the NSSIB (-) group. Conclusion:The presence of NSSIB might increase the risk of death due to suicide and homicide, especially in adolescence.