Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma in an Otherwise Healthy Liver

Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Sheep

Hepatocellular carcinoma in a sheep

At necropsy of a five-year-old sheep, a pear shaped, lobular yellow-brownish mass measuring about 12 ×15 × 20 cm was found to involve the right hepatic lobe. Microscopic examination revealed two trabecularand solid patterns of neoplastic hepatocytes. In solid pattern, there were numerous tumoral giant cells thatcontain one or more large hyperchromatic bizarre-shaped nuclei scattered among clust...

Primary and secondary purulent pericarditis in otherwise healthy adults.

The records of five previously healthy adult patients with primary and secondary purulent pericarditis are reported, in order to review the literature about such a rare condition and to discuss the options for treatment. Primary purulent pericarditis occurred in a five months pregnant woman and in a lady who had experienced a serous pericarditis two months before. A man presented with pyo-pneum...

Bilateral ear canal eruptive skin tags in an otherwise healthy young lady: a case report

Cutaneous skin tags are common skin growths, usually harmless, which protrude from the skin and may have a short, narrow stalk. Typically, they are the same color as the skin or a little darkerand appear mostly in the axilla, groin, and cervical area. In this report, we present a 30-year-old female with pedunculated and <spa...

Proteoglycans in Chronic Liver Disease and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: An Update

The last four decades witnessed a brilliant career of proteoglycans (PGs). Once regarded as mere space-fillers or passive structural components of matrices and charge-selective barriers, these fascinating molecules have been increasingly acknowledged as key players in cell-cell and cell-matrix communication, and have become recognized as modulators of most, if not all, aspects of cell behavior ...