UNLABELLED The morphometric model is a useful screening test to investigate the possibility of OSAS in patients during initial office visits. AIM To evaluate the clinical applicability of the Kushida morphometric model in a sample of patients with sleep-disordered breathing, and to define a cutoff value to differentiate patients with mild, moderate and severe apnea. METHOD A sample of 80 pa...

In a retrospective study on cytological specimens from 17 dogs with histologically confirmed cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, the morphometric variables were studied and compared to metastases in regional lymph nodes. The morphometric parameters evaluated in this study were mean nuclear area (MNA, μm), mean nuclear perimeter (MNP, μm), mean nuclear diameter (D mean, μm), minimum nuclear diame...

Exposure to glucocorticoids leads to numerous changes in various biological systems including the reproductive system. The aim of the present work was to find out whether dexamethasone (Dx) treatment of adult female rats would influence the histological and morphometric characteristics of the pituitary gonadotrophic cells (luteinizing--LH cells and follicle stimulating--FSH cells). One group of...

This study examines the evolution hindwing shape in Chinese dung beetle species using morphometric and phylogenetic analyses. Previous studies have analyzed the evolution of wing shape within a single or very few species, or by comparing only a few wing traits. No study has analyzed wing shape evolution of a large number of species, or quantitatively compared morphological variation of wings wi...

Morphometric analyzes support an understanding of the physical characteristics hydrographic basins and are commonly used to estimate hydrological variables. This work aims compare geomorphological time concentration (Tc) in two watersheds: upper part Jundiaí river (139.3 km2) Piraí (209 belonging basin, state São Paulo. To calculate Tc, empirical equations monitored data were applied. Applying ...

BACKGROUND Management of endometrial precancerous lesions has been of much debate due to inconsistencies in their classification, natural history and histologic diagnosis. Endometrial hyperplasia constitutes a wide range of histomorphologic features associated with high intra and interobserver diagnostic variability.Although traditional microscopic diagnosis is by far the most applicable method...

This study explored the relative roles of climate and phylogenetic background in driving morphometric trait variation in 10 spruce taxa in China. The study further addressed the hypothesis that these variations are consistent with species turnover on climatic gradients. Nine morphometric traits of leaves, seed cones, and seeds for the 10 studied spruce taxa were measured at 504 sites. These dat...

BACKGROUND The relation of nuclear morphometry measurements with clinicopathological features was evaluated along with prognosis in invasive female breast carcinoma in Libyan patients. Data was compared with corresponding results on Finnish, and Nigerian female breast cancer patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS Histological samples from 131 patients of breast carcinoma were retrospectively studied ...

the objective of this study was to evaluate the morphometric and reproductive traits of indigenous dairy goat types. it was conducted in three districts (ebnat, gonji-kolela and farta) based on the agro-ecological differences, goat population potentials and experience of the farmers using goat milk. semi-structured questionnaires, field observations, morphological and reproductive trait measure...