Unique National Study Focuses on Rare Cancer Tumors

Super Bowl contest focuses national attention on Rice

BY DANA BLANKENHORN "The Game" comes to R i c e this Sunday at the Stadium. The Super Bowl has become, in its eight years, as much a tradition as the World Series or the Beer-Bike race. Rice's attempts to get the Super Bowl began three years ago. Bill Peterson, then the football coach, and A. M. (Red) Bale, the athletic director, prepared a proposal to talk to the NFL for a Super Bowl at Rice. ...

Immunohistochemical study of some rare vascular tumors.

PURPOSE Kaposiform-hemangioendothelioma (KHE) is a rare vascular tumor,developing predominantly in infants and children. Despite its benign histology, this tumor frequently behaves aggressively,causing significant morbidity and mortality. The striking resemblance of its spindle cell proliferation to that seen in Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) led to the designation of KHE for this rare lesion. This work e...

Attention focuses on autism.

Alltech Symposium focuses on sustainability

In the general session, Declan Coyle from Ireland looked at building high performance teams. In this he stressed the importance in difficult times of having inspired leaders who had vision – people who ‘saw it and were it’. These people must have high visions and be focused on them. He highlighted the importance of selfimage, goals and values and, interestingly, highlighted how children aged fo...

Ventral petrous meningiomas: unique tumors.

INTRODUCTION This study aims to analyze our experience with petrous meningiomas (PM), testing the hypothesis that these tumors have different histologic subtypes and operative outcome depending on the site of origin in reference to the internal auditory canal (IAC). METHODS Fifty-eight patients with PM were reviewed retrospectively. Tumors were classified as posterior (PPM; n = 29), superior ...