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From Dostoyevsky to Brenner

Y. H. BRENNER (1881-1921) has long been associated with the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His early letters express fascination with Russian novelists, poets, and critics (Brenner, 1967, pp. 218-226), and the figures of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky appear many times in both his fiction and non-fiction writing. Brenner's admiration for the depth of Dostoyevsky's psychological portr...

Brenner On Distribution

This paper discusses one important component of the analysis of the decline of the profit rate in the recent decades in Robert Brenner’s Economics of Global Turbulence. Our single focus in this paper is Brenner’s implicit theory of distribution. It must be emphasized from the outset that the present discussion does not question the central role given by Brenner to the profit rate in his investi...

Proliferating Brenner tumour.

Case report A 62-year-old white female, nulligravida, 10 years post-menopause, was admitted to hospital because of a low abdominal mass discovered upon routine gynaecological examination. Physical examination on admission was unremarkable except for the presence of a movable mass located in the left lower abdomen. At exploratory laparotomy, a left ovarian tumour was discovered and total abdomin...

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Brenner tumor of the vagina.

Two cases of Brenner tumor of the vagina were encountered in postmenopausal asymptomatic women who presented with polypoid lesions measuring 0.5 and 1.2 cm, respectively, in the upper and mid-vagina. DNA flow cytometry in one tumor showed a diploid histogram, and Ki-67 (MIB-1) proliferation marker was very low in both tumors. To the best of our knowledge, only two vaginal Brenner tumors have be...