Bacterial brain abscess is still a disease that challenges neurosurgeons in its diagnoses and treatment, in both adults and children because of variations in the microbiological features, and altered immune status (for example, due to HIV infection, treatment with chemotherapy or organ transplantation). The incidence of brain abscesses is ~ 8% of intracranial masses in developing countries, whe...

data is expected to be small, as the brain sizes of several adult specimens and their body masses are typically recorded, and thus the body mass range of individualbased body mass data is expected to approximate that of the averages of the literature. It is therefore not surprising that studies of body mass versus brain sizes have successfully used both literature-based [Isler and Van Schaik, 2...

Wilms' tumor is the most common malignant renal tumor in childhood. The brain metastasis of a Wilms' tumor with anaplastic histopathology is rare. We present the case of an 8-year-old girl with Wilms' tumor, who presented with multiple brain metastases 5 years after her primary diagnosis. The brain masses were diagnosed after a generalized tonic-clonic seizure attack. The big solid mass in the ...

Biochemical properties and subcellular distribution of the class A calcium channel alpha 1 subunits (alpha 1A) from rat and rabbit brain were examined using site-directed anti-peptide antibodies specific for rat rbA (anti-CNA3) and for rabbit BI (anti-NBI-1 and anti-NBI-2) isoforms of alpha 1A. In immunoblotting experiments, anti-CNA3 specifically identifies multiple alpha 1A polypeptides with ...

abstract background: evaluation of breast masses in women under 40 years old starts with a triple test score (tts) which is composed of clinical breast examination, mammography and fine needle aspiration. increased breast density in this age group decreases the sensitivity of mammography. so deciding whether to biopsy such nondiagnostic lesions or not is subject to challenge. breast masses up t...