acute liver failure (alf) is an uncommon, devastating syndrome of which over 2000 cases occur annually in the usa, with a mortality rate of about 80%. alf is de_ned by the sudden onset of hepatic encephalopathy and coagulopathy (inr_1.5) in an otherwise healthy person. the most common etiologies are acute viral hepatitis a and b, medication overdose (e.g., acetaminophen) and idiosyncratic drug ...

background: although multifocal and multicentric breast cancers are a common entity, their clinical behavior is not well characterized. with the widespread use of mammographic screening and improved sensitivity of imaging modalities, the detection of multifocal and multicentric breast cancers is likely to continuously increase. many studies have consistently shown a correlation between multifoc...

abstract background: leukemia is the most common malignancy in childhood, and acute myeloid leukemia (aml) is the second most common leukemia.aml still accounts for more than 30% of deaths from leukemia. aml is classified into several subgroups from m0 to m7 with different presentations, clinical features, and outcomes. material and methods: between march 1996 and october 2003, 47 children with...

background: triple-negative breast cancer (tnbc) carries a poor prognosis and therapeutic options are limited to date. the aim of this study was to investigate to what extent the epidermal growth factor receptor (egfr), vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (vegfr2), hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha (hif-1α) and insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (igf-1r) are expressed in tnbc and to...

OBJECTIVE To study epidemiology, risk factors and overall survival rate of patients with laryngeal cancer. MATERIAL AND METHOD A chart review of the patients diagnosed with laryngeal cancer in Songklanagarind Hospital over the past 10 years was performed. RESULTS Two hundred eighty nine patient cases were reviewed, in which 106 patients were diagnosed with supraglottic cancer 180 with glott...

Objectives. To determine the relationship between preoperative erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and overall survival in localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC) following nephrectomy. Methods. 167 patients undergoing nephrectomy for localized RCC had ESR levels measured preoperatively. Receiver Operating Characteristics curves were used to determine Area Under the Curve and relative sensitivity...

Elevated serum haptoglobin (Hp) is identified as a prognostic marker in multiple types of solid tumors, which is correlated with poor prognosis. HCC is one of the major causes of cancer deaths in worldwide, which remains poor prognosis and is clinically urgent for discovering early diagnostic markers. However, except for serum Hp, the correlation of tumor Hp expression with hepatocellular carci...