BACKGROUND/AIM Chemotherapy for intraocular retinoblastoma is used to shrink individual retinal tumours to a size amenable to focal treatments. Quantitative data regarding retinal tumour response following treatment with primary systemic carboplatin are reported. METHODS Changes in area and largest basal diameter of tumours that were exposed to carboplatin, had no concomitant focal treatment,...

L’objectiu d’aquest treball és analitzar la importància que va tenir el regnat de JaumeI en utilització símbols ajudessin a establir una imatge poder com milesChristi. Per fer-ho, recórrer al Llibre dels Feyts ha estat imprescindible. Dels seus renglons esreconeixen atributs senyal reial, l’espasa i poderosos elements profilàctics caràcterdevocional, tindran ressò seva sigil·lografia. També hem...

in order to investigate some silvicultural and soil physico-chemical characteristics of christ's thorn (ziziphus spina christi l. desf.) natural stands, ten natural stands of the tree species which have similar climate and aspects were selected and altitude from sea level (asl), the thickest sprout collar diameter (tscd) and total tree height (th) of the tree species were measured in 1000 ...

BCC: basal cell carcinoma INTRODUCTION Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common skin cancer in the world, with 750,000 cases reported annually in the United States alone. Because they are typically identified early, it is rare to see BCCs grow beyond 5 cm in diameter; when this does occur, the term giant basal cell carcinoma applies. Furthermore, if beyond 20 cm in diameter, the lesion is ...

Paliurus spina-christi Mill (Rhamnaceae) has been used in folk medicine as a hypocholesterolemic agent. In this study, the effect of total fruit extract on lowering lipid content of serum was investigated. Male rats were introduced streptozocin, subsequently fed with a high cholesterol diet and concomitantly treated with various doses of the extract. After 8 days, serum levels of cholesterol, t...

The mutant strain bald-2 is unique among "flagellaless" strains of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii isolated to date, in that it possesses a mutant basal body: it is only capable of forming a ring of nine singlet microtubules, 180 nm in diameter, instead of the usual triplet basal body which is 225 nm in diameter. This singlet basal body lacks structural stability and the ability to associate with st...

Objective. Role of dysfunction of the sphincter of Oddi (SO) in choledocholithiasis is controversial. This study was to evaluate SO motor activity in patients with common bile duct (CBD) stones in the Han population of China. Patients and Methods. In this study, 76 patients with CBD stones were enrolled in a single tertiary endoscopy center. Data of SO motor activities was prospectively evaluat...

The mean crown diameters of stand-grown trees 5.0-in. dbh and larger were modeled as a function of stem diameter, live-crown ratio, stund-level basal area, latitude, longitude, elevation, and Hopkins bioclimatic index for 53 tree species in the western United States. Stem diameter was statistically signi@ant in al l models , and a quadrat ic term for s tem diameter was requiredfor some species ...