Histopathological malignancy grading of human gliomas is limited by subjective interpretation of the morphological criteria. Assessment of mitotic activity is a cornerstone of grading these tumours, but mitotic figures can be hard to identify in haematoxylin-eosin stained sections. Thus, determining proliferative activity by means of Ki-67/MIB-1 immunostaining has become a useful supplement. Ho...

BACKGROUND Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is the most aggressive form of primary breast carcinoma and is associated with a dismal outcome despite the availability of multi-modality treatment options. PATIENTS AND METHODS This is a prospective case control study comparing two groups of newly diagnosed patients; the first with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) and the second with locally advan...

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OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the expression of MIB-1, BCL-2, VEGFR3, and CD31 and their associations with long-term survival in patients with renal cell cancer (RCC). PATIENTS AND METHODS This study consisted of 224 RCC patients who underwent radical nephrectomy from 1985 to 1995. Follow-up continued for up to over 20 years. MIB-1 and BCL-2 expression were analyzed alone, ...

to study the changes of serum uric acid level which is influenced by various factors including nutrition, race, socio-economic conditions age, sex, obesity and hyper lipidemia, a wide variety of survey appeared to be performed. for this study in six large provinces of iran out of 12,524 apparently healthy individuals a total of 2,744 persons of both sexes (1,439 females, 1,305 males) were selec...