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The ability to grow all of the life stages of a digenean in vitro would benefit development of anthelmintic drugs and vaccines and facilitate research into the ecology, evolution, genetics, and behavior of these parasites [25]. Though larval stages of some digeneans have been cultured successfully [69], most attempts t... |
A 77-year - old woman with a history of hypertension was referred to our clinic in september 2006 for a 2-week history of blurred vision in her right eye . She had received an intravitreal injection of 4 mg of triamcinolone acetonide in her right eye for macular edema due to central retinal vein occlusion (crvo) 4 mont... |
Lipoblastoma is a rare benign tumor originated from adipose tissue and cytologically characterized by lipocyte, lipoblasts, spindle cells, myxoid extracellular material, thin branching capillaries, and absence of nuclear atypia (1 - 4). It is found most commonly in the upper and lower extremities but it can occur anywh... |
Age estimation is one of the most important methods used in the identification of human remains and is also one of the greatest challenges in forensic medicine particularly in the case of adult remains . Over the last few years, the use of imaging modalities such as computed tomography (ct), magnetic resonance imaging,... |
Polymorphous low grade adenocarcinoma (plga) is the second most common intraoral malignant salivary gland tumor, accounting for 26% of all carcinomas . Plga has a female predilection occurring in wide age range but peaks in fifth and sixth decades . Plga frequently occurs in minor salivary glands in the palate, but it ... |
Cancers in the bladder is the most common malignancy in the urinary tract and the age adjusted incidence rate is approximately nine per 10,000 for men and 2.2 for women globally . Bladder cancer (bc) is the ninth most common cancer world - wide and is the fifth most common cancer in the united states and represents 4.5... |
Cervical spondylosis is degeneration of the cervical spine that occurs during the normal course of aging . This degeneration leads to herniated intervertebral discs, osteophytes, and ligament hypertrophy, which may eventually cause compression of the nerve roots and spinal cord . Spinal cord compression, or cervical sp... |
Echinococcus infection is still a major health problem in endemic areas, mostly livestock - raising countries (1). 0.5% - 2% of infected patients have heart involvement that commonly have previous hydatid cyst disease, only 4% of cardiac cases experience primarily involvement of interventricular septum (2, 3). Most cas... |
It was constructed in the mid-1960s and consists of eight cattle buildings on about 96 ha . The cattle barns have a compacted clay floor, which is cleaned periodically and lined with fresh hardwood chips to absorb urine and provide comfort to the animals as insulation from the bare ground . Shallow drains from the buil... |
Radiotherapy is a main therapeutic method for lung cancer, especially for locally advanced non - small - cell lung cancer (stage iiia - b). Precise radiotherapy is considered to be the direction of development of radiotherapy in the 21st century . However, precise radiotherapy fails to improve the long - term survival ... |
There is urgency to the problem of the need for efficacious drug treatment in the management of alzheimer s disease with psychosis (ad+p). Ad+p has grave consequence, particularly for caregivers, as it is associated with physical aggression, and caregivers are most often the victims.13 violent behavior that is directed... |
The joint kinematics of patients with hemiparesis exhibit differences from the normal conditions in both the stance and swing phases of gait and also large interindividual variability1 . Healthy people are able to keep their bodies balanced on irregular surfaces, which can be explained by a neural strategy leading to d... |
Procalcitonin (pct) was first described in 1993 as a diagnostic marker of infection . It is a polypeptide of 116 amino acids and has a molecular weight of 13 kda . The clinical significance of serum pct in discriminating between bacterial infections and nonbacterial infections, such as systemic inflammatory response sy... |
Cardiology is directly involved in the diagnosis and treatment of the leading causes of death . Heart failure is the common end - stage of many cardiovascular diseases and, despite dramatic improvement in its outcome, admission rates following heart failure hospitalization remains high, with 50% of all cardiovascular r... |
Tracheal collapse in dogs, due to dorsoventrally dynamic narrowing of the tracheal lumen during the respiratory cycle, mainly occurs in toy or miniature dog breeds . The clinical manifestations of this condition include a classic " goose honk " cough, dyspnea, cyanosis, and syncope . Response to treatment with antituss... |
Protein kinases typically function in highly connected, dynamic, and regulated networks and are central actors in the majority of signal transduction cascades . The human kinome is composed of more than 500 kinases and deregulated kinase signaling has frequently been observed to be oncogenic . Human kinases are therefo... |
X - linked spinobulbar muscular atrophy (kennedy s disease) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by an expansion of a polymorphic cag tandem - repeat in the androgen receptor gene . It manifests as weakness and wasting of bulbar, facial, and proximal limb muscles due to loss of anterior horn cells in the brain and spi... |
The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s13555 - 015 - 0091 - 4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users . Molluscum contagiosum (mc) is a viral infection of the skin caused by a dna poxvirus called the molluscum contagiosum virus . Mc is spread from direct contact, either via pe... |
Early reports concerning myocyte size in the human left ventricle, relying heavily upon autopsy specimens [13], often found that the individual contractile muscle cells are roughly cylindrical measuring 17 to 25 m in diameter and 60 to 140 m in length, giving length to diameter ratio of about 5 to 1 . Recent studies, r... |
Endometrial carcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of the female genital tract in western country . Many patients with endometrial carcinoma are in their 50's and only 5% of them are under age 40 (1). Endometrial adenocarcinoma in child bearing age is relatively uncommon, except in those with obesity, chronic ano... |
It is extremely rare for the spinal cord displaced out of the dura through a dural defect, which is known as a spinal cord herniation (sch). The classification of the sch is known as traumatic, iatrogenic, and idiopathic according to the causes of dura defect6). Among those, surgical treatment of sch is usually followe... |
One of the biggest challenges in the analysis of histological whole - slide images is the huge variability of the visual appearance within and across slides . For this reason, many image analysis approaches employ machine - learning classifiers that can be adapted to varying image characteristics simply by giving examp... |
An 18-year - old female patient presented with a three - month history of progressive, painless swelling associated with mild proptosis in the lower eye lid . A firm, non - tender 1.5 2.0 cm swelling in the right lower lid was found [fig . 1]. It was freely mobile over the bone, and skin over it was also free . The res... |
Epigenetics is currently defined as the heritable changes in gene expression without alterations in dna sequence . In particular, abnormal histone tail modifications such as acetylation have been linked to tumor progression . Histone acetylation is modulated by two families of enzymes: histone deacetylases (hdacs) and ... |
, the use of orthotic insoles did not prevent lower limb discomfort related to physical stress in young males and orthotic insoles were not recommended2 . Another study found no significant differences in maximum pronation, calcaneal eversion, or total pronation of the foot with the use of various types of arch support... |
They were permitted free access to water and food (lab mr stock, nosan corp ., the animal facility was maintained under conditions of a 12 hr light / dark cycle at 23 1c and 5060% humidity . This experiment was approved by the institutional animal care and use committee (permission number: 19 - 05 - 07 and 22 - 05 - 01... |
The dutch practice of physician - assisted dying (pad) has reached a phase of integration since the early eighties of the previous century, when the royal dutch society for the advancement of medicine (rdsm) came out in favor of the possibility of pad in 1984 . Before that date, since the seventies, a growing acceptanc... |
Traumatic brain injury (tbi) is the leading cause of death and disability worldwide . Tbi is caused largely by motor vehicle accidents, violence, combat injuries, fall or sport related injures . Each year, many individuals suffer from tbi, those survived often left with disabilities ranging from long - term sensorimoto... |
Interest in the pathology of emotional disorders, such as depression and anxiety, has increased, primarily because the incidence of emotional disorders in adults, adolescents, and even children has dramatically increased over the past several decades . Emotional disorders are often influenced by genetic and lifestyle f... |
Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (osas) is the most frequent clinical form of breathing disorders during sleep in patients who come to the sleep medicine specialist . According to the epidemiological research conducted in poland, the prevalence of the disease is estimated as 8.7% in men and 2.5% in women aged 4072 yrs... |
Catamenial pneumothorax (i.e., pneumothorax occurring during the perimenstrual period) is a condition that has been recognized for several decades . Differences in its definition stem from the various definitions of the perimenstrual period, which encompasses the period of 72 hours before and after menstrual bleeding .... |
Thymi were obtained from pediatric donors (112 yr old) undergoing elective surgery for cardiac malformations . 10 m cryostat sections of thymic tissues were dried and fixed in either 2% paraformaldehyde (immunocytochemistry) or absolute ethanol at 20c (immunofluorescence). Specific ib8 mab (4) followed by a biotin - co... |
This was an observational study including 241 type i diabetic patients both male and female, age 18 and over, who needed insulin intake . Patients were recruited and consented from diabetic patients attending the diabetic research center in kermanshah, a province in the western region of iran . Upon obtaining consent, ... |
The importance of donkeys in the sudan is unequivocal . The animal provides support and transport at a low cost for urban and rural areas . The donkey has a potential of making valuable contribution to new development strategies such as reconstruction and development programmes in many parts of sudan especially darfur ... |
As per a witty quote of shoenfeld et al ., in the antiphospholipid syndrome (aps) there is an explosion of autoantibodies . Along with the classical antibodies such as the anticardiolipin (acl), anti--2-glycoprotein i (ab2g - pi) and lupus anticoagulant (la), physicians can also detect antibodies against other phosphol... |
West nile maps for the 2003 transmission season based on county - level data provided by arbonet through voluntary reporting by state and local health officials to cdc (4). The case numbers comprise reports of mild west nile fever as well as the more severe west nile meningitis or encephalitis . Crude county - specific... |
Inspired by the observation of complete tumor regression in a male patient with recurrent sarcoma after a postoperative infection of erysipelas, coley treated advanced sarcoma patients with mixed toxins of streptococcus erysipelas and bacillus prodigiosus in 1891 [1, 2], thus starting the history of the immunotherapy f... |
Human cystic echinococcosis (ce) is a chronic zoonotic infection caused by the larval stage of the canid tapeworm, echinococcus granu (1). Both cystic and alveolar echinococcosis were reported from middle east countries, which cystic echinococcosis was assumed as the predominant type (2 - 5). E. granulosus is one of th... |
Two rectangular flumes measuring 64 cm in width by 244 cm in length by 91 cm in height were constructed using 1.1-cm thick plywood (fig . Plywood panels were screwed together along their edges and the resulting hollow structure reinforced at either end with (8.9 in width by 3.8 cm in height) attached to the inner walls... |
Chiari malformation is a significant hindbrain deformity that is subdivided into types 0 through 4 . Types 1 and 2 are of greater clinical importance than types 0, 3, and 4 . The prevalence rate of this disorder is estimated to be 0.10.5%, with a slight female predominance seen in recent studies . Based on the analysis... |
We divided a group of 16 holstein female calves, 35 months of age, into 4 groups of 26 animals each . Each group of calves was orally administered 1 g (n = 4), 5 g (n = 6), 10 g (n = 4), or 50 g (n = 2) of pooled whole - brain homogenate prepared from cattle experimentally infected with l - bse (3,6) (table). The endpo... |
One of the foremost duties of the plastic surgeon is to restore the lost tissue . And the dictum is to replace the like with like . In accordance with these principles, the technique of tissue expansion was introduced by neumann and popularised by radovan and austad . We are discussing a novel indigenous technique of e... |
Seedless grapes are generally preferred by consumers for both table fruit and raisins . The quality and nutritional composition of seedless grapes and the breeding of new seedless cultivars have been subjects of significant research over many years (alleweldt and possingham 1988; wang et al . 2002; ebadi et al . Many b... |
Clinically, the disease manifests as patchy alopecia, diffuse alopecia, reticulate alopecia, ophiasis, ophiasis inversus, alopecia totalis or alopecia universalis . Nail changes (diffuse fine nail pitting, longitudinal ridging, thin and brittle finger and toe nails, and trachyonychia) may be seen in 3 - 30% of the pati... |
Twenty - one inpatients (15 males/6 females) with an aver - age age of 23.7 years, who had been diagnosed with fep according to dsm - iv - tr (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition, text revision) criteria, were evaluated using the positive and negative syndrome scale (panss). Spect was ... |
Intestinal intussuception in an adult is a rare entity that differs in etiology from its pediatric counterpart owing to underlying pathologic lead points in adults, mostly neoplasms . The main clinical presentation in chronic intussuception in adults remains dull abdominal pain, and acute intussuception is uncommon . C... |
Oral diseases are controlled by reducing the microbial load in the oral cavity and this can be achieved by maintaining proper oral hygiene . Toothbrushes in daily use can be heavily contaminated with microorganisms, that are mainly depending upon storage conditions . Occasionally, toothbrushes belonging to different me... |
Mucoid degeneration of the anterior cruciate ligament (acl) has been described in a few reports [1 - 6]., we present a case of mucoid degeneration that was treated with arthroscopic debridement with good results . The 50-year - old female patient presented with non - specific left knee pain of 18 months duration and gr... |
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (dic) is a serious condition with significant morbidity (that is, organ dysfunction due to microvascular thrombosis, thromboembolic complications and profuse bleeding) and is an independent predictor of mortality in critically ill patients . Despite this serious clinical presentat... |
The animal research committee at university of california los angeles approved all the protocols used in these studies . Five - week - old female apoe mice were obtained from jackson laboratories (bar harbor, me) and were housed in the division of laboratory animal medicine at the university of california los angeles .... |
The prevalence of allergic diseases in childhood has increased considerably in developed countries over the last several decades . Research has been published recently suggesting that children do in fact become sensitized to outdoor allergens at an early age and, thus, should be referred for skin testing earlier . One ... |
In this issue of critical care, fernndez - serrano and colleagues evaluate the efficacy of corticosteroids in the treatment of hospitalized patients with severe community - acquired pneumonia (cap). Severe cap is a major cause of admission to intensive care units (icus) and, despite optimal antibiotic and supportive tr... |
A biological variation allows for a unique craniofacial character and many asymmetries found in each individual . The human skull is made up of 22 paired and unpaired ossicles, which are classified as viscerocranium and neurocranium . The neurocranial bones of variable size and shape are often encountered at the fontan... |
By many accounts, obesity now ranks as one of the greatest and most preventable global threats to public health [1, 2]. Furthermore, as a result of fetal programming, it will likely gather momentum and become a self - perpetuating problem as a form of inheritance of acquired characteristics from one generation to the n... |
Most of the current knowledge about this entity is from western literature . In the caucasian population, it typically presents as yellow brown telangiectatic sclerodermiform plaques on the shins with central atrophy and raised violaceous borders . This classical presentation is not always seen; hence, the diagnosis is... |
Small cell lung cancer (sclc) is the most aggressive subtype of lung cancer and is characterized by early metastatic spread to multiple organs (byers and rudin, 2015). It is most often diagnosed at an advanced stage of disease and is generally fatal within 4 months if left untreated . Another striking feature of sclc i... |
We examined the inpatient hospital discharge data set from the california office of statewide health planning and development for 19972002 (1), which contains inpatient discharge diagnoses from all nonfederal hospitals in california . We abstracted all records with any international classification of diseases, 9th edit... |
Some of the substances used for these dyes are either allergenic or have other side effects in some persons . 6), the disodium salt of 3-hydroxy-4-[(4-methyl-2-sulfophenyl) azo]-2-naphthalenecarboxylic acid, which is an anionic azo compound (ci: 15850), is one such substance . Lithol rubine b is mutagenic because of in... |
Moreover, cavernous angiomas in the cerebellopontine angle (cpa) are extremely rare lesions with few cases reported in the literature . Cavernous angiomas are benign lesions and present with cranial nerve palsies, hemorrhage, or hydrocephalus due to compression of the fourth ventricle . We report the radiologic and pat... |
Health complications associated with obesity are a major public health concern, especially in the adolescent population who may carry adipose - related disease risk (i.e., type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease) forward into adulthood . Of particular interest in adolescents is the presence and severity of eating disor... |
Rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is an inflammatory disease characterized by persistent synovitis, systemic inflammation, and autoantibodies.1 several studies have reported overall ra prevalence rates of up to 0.67% of the total population, and they have also indicated that it is more common amongst women rather than men.26 s... |
A common condition in geriatrics patients is the occurrence of edentulism . According to the united nations population division (un 2011), the share of india's population aged 60 and older is projected to climb from 8% in 2010 to 19% in 2050 . One therapeutic approach directed at improving oral function in elderly is u... |
Angioedema is defined as a deep dermal, subcutaneous and/or mucous swelling, which usually lasts for 1 to 3 days, whereas urticaria usually represents a more acute, superficial dermal swelling due to plasma leakage and vasodilation . Drug - induced angioedema is associated with urticarial lesions in approximately 50% o... |
Primary central nervous system lymphoma (pcnsl) comprises all cases of lymphomas that exclusively involve the brain, spinal cord, eyes, meninges, and cranial nerves in the absence of systemic lymphoproliferative process upon diagnosis . Some registry reports declare that pcnsl represents 4% of all intracranial tumors a... |
Bagshaw and colleagues report on the epidemiology and outcomes of acute kidney injury (aki) in australian intensive care units (icus) over a ten year period . It has been said that despite technological advances in nephrology, there has been little improvement in the outcomes of patients with aki . The literature has b... |
Natural products from actinomycetes have been the major sources for clinical antibiotics, along with numerous other useful compounds including antineoplastic, antiparasitic, insecticidal and phytocidal drugs . . S. violaceus was first isolated and classified in the 1960s . Following its discovery, different kinds of an... |
Acute lung injury (ali) and its more severe form, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards), are the major causes of death in critically ill patients . Despite significant improvements in diagnosis and supportive care, evidently, a better understanding of the molecular mechanism underlying ards from an overall perspec... |
Enterobacteriaceae and pseudomonas aeruginosa are among the most common organisms causing nosocomial infections worldwide, especially in intensive care units (icus),,,, . The treatment of these organisms became more difficult because of their production of extended - spectrum -lactamases (esbls), such as blactx - m, pl... |
Strategies to prevent the progression from impaired glucose tolerance to overt (principally type 2) diabetes in middle - aged and older adults have been developed by a number of groups worldwide, drawing on the results of major randomised controlled trials [13]. Women with previous gestational diabetes (gdm) are known ... |
Pulmonary adenocarcinoma rarely spreads to the gynecologic tract, and has not been fully reported to metastasize within a leiomyoma . A 47 year - old woman with recurrent pulmonary adenocarcinoma was incidentally found to have a positron emission tomography (pet) avid pelvic mass at the time of restaging . She was unex... |
It is marked by a dense infiltrate of normal plasma cells separated into aggregates by strands of collagen . The importance of this lesion is that it may cause severe gingival inflammation, discomfort, and bleeding and may mimic more serious conditions . Pcg is known by a variety of other names such as atypical gingivo... |
Endoscopic ultrasound (eus) is an established tool in diagnosing pancreatic masses and enables guided fine - needle aspiration (fna). Confocal laser endomicroscopy (cle) has allowed in vivo microscopic analysis during on - going endoscopy . Recently, cle has gone beyond luminal indications with the development of a new... |
The study was approved by the ethics committees of linkping university (m132 - 06), and land health care (2008 - 05 - 23). Dna was robot - extracted (magna pure compact extraction robot; roche, basel, switzerland) from 400 l of edta - plasma (nucleic acid isolation kit i; roche) and analyzed by using a real - time pcr ... |
Through efforts at studying host - pathogen interactions, the disciplines of immunology and microbiology emerged tightly integrated in the late 1800 . Characterization of the immune system was then dependent on probing it with large microbes and on vaccination for protection against infections . This early merger led t... |
Nucleus raphe magnus (nrm) that possesses the greatest proportion of cells responding to cutaneous temperature (1) acts as a necessary component of the cns thermoregulatory area in rats (2) and controls cutaneous blood flow (3, 4). There is some evidences demonstrating that the central area of the raphe is needed for t... |
Death anxiety is one of the main concerns experienced by elderly patients (3), and acts as a barrier against end - of - life communications with health care providers (4). Death anxiety may be particularly high when death is being seen as associated with pain, punishment, losing worldly involvement, consequences of rel... |
Coronary angiography was performed for each positive test.8 the study reported that ett had a sensitivity of 68% and specificity of 77%, thallium spect - mpi a sensitivity of 88% and specificity of 77%, and stress echocardiography a sensitivity of 76% and specificity of 88% in the diagnosis of cad, when compared with c... |
In higher plants, fatty acid biosynthesis is catalyzed by the action of a type ii fatty acid synthase, located in plastids [14]. The reaction includes the condensation of malonyl - acp (acyl carrier protein) with acyl - acp derivatives resulting in the acyl - acp chain successively elongated with two carbon units [5, 6... |
The androgen receptor (ar), a ligand - activated transcription factor and member of the steroid hormone subfamily of the nuclear receptor (nr) superfamily, mediates androgen signalling in the cell . The ar is the only nr that is coded on the x - chromosome, thus males carrying a disease - associated mutation in the gen... |
Investigating the influential factors among particular population requires assessing the relations between factors included in this complex such as psychological or demographical variables . Some examples of the potential psychogenic factors related to depression are stress and self efficacy . Depression during adolesc... |
Worldwide, approximately 12% of the adult general population suffers from chronic headache (15 days / month) combined with medication overuse [16]. The optimal method of treating the many patients with medication overuse headache (moh) is still controversial, mainly due to lack of placebo - controlled, double - blind, ... |
There may also be bulging of the fetal amniotic membranes through the uterine cervix and vagina . In severe cases the fetal membranes could be seen protruding through the external genitalia . In such cases rupture of the fetal membranes could occur resulting in painless preterm labour and delivery of a live - born fetu... |
The palliative care, or comfort care, movement in the usa is on the rise (1). Over the last several years, hospitals have developed comfort and pain management programs that support minimizing pain and maximizing comfort for their patients . Accrediting institutions, such as the joint commission on acceditation of heal... |
Health is a valuable asset, which paves the way for the development of personal capabilities as well as steady development of the society . Promoting health is not only a responsibility but also a right and as mentioned by the iranian constitution, the government must provide health care to population on an equitable b... |
Alzheimer's disease (ad), the most common type of dementia among older people, is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized clinically by a gradual decline in cognition and daily functioning and behavioural alterations . Principal neuropathological hallmarks of ad include extracellular senile plaques conta... |
Adverse health effects of mercury include neurotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, cardiotoxicity, teratogenicity and immunotoxicity . However, the molecular mechanisms underlying mercury toxicity remain unclear with detrimental consequences on the development and validation of appropriate biomarkers of predictive toxic effects ... |
Cocaine, also known as benzoyl methyl ecgonine, is a tropane alkaloid found in erythroxylon coca leaves . Cocaine is widely abused worldwide despite being banned since early 19th century . As per the world health organization, the lifetime prevalence of cocaine abuse is 1% worldwide and 3% in developed countries, with ... |
Seventy patients with ar participated in a prospective, randomized, double - blind, parallel, active - controlled, comparative 4-week trial approved by the institutional ethics committee of indira gandhi government medical college and hospital, nagpur, from march 2014 to october 2014 . The trial procedure was designed ... |
Axonal regeneration can occur spontaneously after peripheral nerve injury as a result of favorable environmental and intrinsic factors . However, axonal regeneration following spinal cord injury (sci) is nonspontaneous and often inhibited by the resulting glial scar . Evidently, environmental and intrinsic differences ... |
The use of medicinal products in younger children, even if approved and accepted for decades in adults and older children, often takes place with some uncertainties on the parents' or physician's site . Younger patients not only are smaller and have less weight but also have at least partly different pharmacokinetic ch... |
The unicuspid aortic valve (uav) is a very rare congenital heart disease that often requires cardiac surgery . The uav shares many features with the bicuspid aortic valve . It is often confounded with bicuspid aortic valve, which is a more common congenital anomaly . The estimated incidence of congenital uav in the adu... |
The separation and determination of compounds in multicomponent mixtures, that is, plant extracts, are usually performed with the use of high performance liquid chromatography, hplc (e.g., [1, 2]), or planar chromatography (e.g., [35]). The comparison of solute and standard retentions (both measured as the partition co... |
Scientific research is an integral part of postgraduate studies, aimed at teaching future scientists how to formulate a research question, to choose the proper scientific method, to carry out the research, to present research data and to achieve clear and simple conclusions . The acquired new knowledge usually contains... |
The endoplasmic reticulum (er) is pivotal for the biosynthesis of secretory proteins and control of the capacity of the endocytotic system through a variety of post - translational modifications and chaperone events . Any imbalance between the load of proteins entering the er and er s ability to process them activates ... |
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gists) are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract . Most of the gists occur in the stomach (60%), jejunum and ileum (30%), and the duodenum (5%). The development of gist is associated with the mutational activation of receptor tyrosine kinases, namely, the plat... |
Retinopathy of prematurity (rop) presents as abnormal retinal blood vessels in an ophthalmoscopic exam of the premature infant . Evidence indicates that the appearance of the abnormal retinal blood vessels in rop is instigated by changes in the neural retina [1, 2]. In addition, infants born prematurely are at increase... |
The study population included men and women, aged 18 years, with the metabolic syndrome as defined by atp iii criteria (1) (table 1). Other inclusion criteria included ldl cholesterol 3.366.48 mmol / l (130250 mg / dl) and a 10-year chd risk score> 10% . Exclusion criteria included triglycerides 5.65 mmol / l (500 mg /... |
Metastases to the stomach are unusual and most of them arise via a hematogenous route from malignant melanoma or carcinoma of the breast or lung . Gastric metastasis from a renal tumor is rare and all reported cases involve renal cell carcinoma . Leiomyosarcoma of the kidney is also uncommon, accounting for 12% of mali... |
As a service to our authors and readers, this journal provides supporting information supplied by the authors . Such materials are peer reviewed and may be reorganized for online delivery, but are not copyedited or typeset . Technical support issues arising from supporting information (other than missing files) should ... |
Pain is the most prevalent health care problem, and characterization of pain is of major importance in the diagnosis and choice of treatment . In clinical practice, the symptoms of the underlying disease and complaints relating to psychological, cognitive, and social aspects of the illness, as well as systemic reaction... |
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