Introduction: The characteristics of salivary gland lesions identified by fine-needle aspiration cytology are varied and may overlap, which makes diagnosis difficult for cytopathologists. To provide consistency in the reporting to enhance clinic-pathologic communication, "Milan system cytopathology" has been introduced, offers guidelines treatment based on various categories malignancy risk. Ma...

Normal and simian virus 40-transformed WI-38 cells exhibited a differential sensitivity to infection with type 3 reovirus. A progressive decrease in viability began 24 to 36 h after infection of transformed cells terminating in complete lysis of cultures by 96 h. Normal cells were productively infected and continued to produce and release virus for as long as 14 days after infection, but exhibi...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the clinical diagnosis and treatment of intracranial malignant melanoma. For this purpose, the clinical manifestation, signs, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) contents, imageology, pathological features, treatment and prognosis of 7 cases of intracranial malignant melanoma were analyzed in The Chinese PLA General Hospital (Beijing, China) from 1996 to 20...