Introduction: Average glandular dose (AGD), entrance skin air kerma (ESAK) and normalized glandular dose (DgN) are the main dosimetric quantities in mammography. In this study, DgN is evaluated in the presence of breast cyst, which is a common disease among women and the influence of size, number and location of the cysts on the DgN is investigated. Materials and Meth...

Helianthus annuus, the common sunflower, produces a complex array of secondary compounds that are secreted into glandular trichomes, specialized structures found on leaf surfaces and anther appendages of flowers. The primary components of these trichome secretions are sesquiterpene lactones (STL), a diverse class of compounds produced abundantly by the plant family Compositae and believed to co...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary glandular papillomas are rare neoplasms, and their very slow or absent growth over time generally facilitates establishing the diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION In an 84-year-old woman who underwent surgery for sigmoid colon cancer, a growing solitary pulmonary nodule was identified on postoperative follow-up computed tomography. A computer tomography-guided needle biopsy was ...

The ‘classical’ model to explain glandular hypofunction in Sjögrens syndrome (SS) is tissue loss secondary to immune attack mediated by a combination of apoptosis and cytotoxic cell death (reviewed recently by Ramos-Casals and Font [1]). In this model, the process of glandular destruction is made self-sustaining by the continued production of novel ‘self ’ antigens, secondary to apoptotic bleb ...