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CASE PRESENTATION: A 51-year-old woman with a medical history of poorly controlled type 1 diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroidism, and tobacco abuse was admitted to the hospital with persistent nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, dry cough, rhinorrhea, and sore throat. She denied fevers, chills, rigors, shortness of breath, hemoptysis, nasal congestion, postnasal drip, and facial pain. She denied any sick contacts, and there was no recent travel outside of Chicago.
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Antifungal Agents/administration & dosage , Bronchoscopy/methods , Lung Diseases , Lung , Mucormycosis , Nitriles/administration & dosage , Pneumonectomy/methods , Pyridines/administration & dosage , Triazoles/administration & dosage , Amphotericin B/administration & dosage , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Lung/diagnostic imaging , Lung/microbiology , Lung/pathology , Lung Diseases/diagnosis , Lung Diseases/microbiology , Lung Diseases/physiopathology , Lung Diseases/surgery , Middle Aged , Mucormycosis/diagnosis , Mucormycosis/drug therapy , Mucormycosis/surgery , Respiration, Artificial/methods , Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted/methods , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
We reconstructed the jaw adductor resultant in 34 primate species using new data on muscle physiological cross-sectional area (PCSA) and data on skull landmarks. Based on predictions by Greaves, the resultant should (1) cross the jaw at 30% of its length, (2) lie directly posterior to the last molar, and (3) incline more anteriorly in primates that need not resist large anteriorly-directed forces. We found that the resultant lies significantly posterior to its predicted location, is significantly posterior to the last molar, and is significantly more anteriorly inclined in folivores than in frugivores. Perhaps primates emphasize avoiding temporomandibular joint distraction and/or wide gapes at the expense of bite force. Our exploration of trends in the data revealed that estimated bite force varies with body mass (but not diet) and is significantly greater in strepsirrhines than in anthropoids. This might be related to greater contribution from the balancing-side jaw adductors in anthropoids.
