background: in this study we evaluated the prognostic impact of metastatic lymph node ratio (mlr) in patients with gastric cancer undergoing curative surgical resection. methods: a total of 121 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma undergoing curative r0 surgical resection in our institutions between 2003 and 2010 were included in this study.  mlr was classified into 3 groups as follows: mlr0; 0...

the zonouz kaolin deposit is located ~15 km northeast of marand, east-azarbaidjan province. based on physical features in field investigations, such as color, five distinct kaolin types including (1) white, (2) lemon, (3) gray, (4) brown, and (5) yellow are distinguished in the deposit. field evidence and petrographic studies indicate that the deposit is genetically close to trachy-andesite roc...

BACKGROUND In an attempt to reduce harm related to gambling problems, an Internet sports betting service provider, bwin Interactive Entertainment, AG (bwin), imposes limits on the amount of money that users can deposit into their online gambling accounts. We examined the effects of these limits on gambling behavior. METHODS We compared (1) gambling behavior of those who exceeded deposit limit...

Sir, Endometriosis is common, and extrapelvic deposits may occur in up to 12% of affected women. Cutaneous endometriosis is rare, usually appearing in surgical scars or following procedures such as hysterectomy, caesarean sections, episiotomy and laparoscopy. It is probably the result of implantation of viable endometrial cells or their transport via vascular channels. Umbilical endometriosis i...

Aim of this study is to 1) analyse the various histological lesions occurring in the fallopian tubes 2) To evaluate the incidence of both neoplastic and non neoplastic lesions. About 250 fallopian tubes were taken up for the study,which were from total abdominal hysterectomy specimens, salpingectomies and tuboovarian masses. Cases belong to the age group of 20-30 yrs. Out of 250 fallopian tube ...

A wealth of evidence has now demonstrated that the microenvironment in which a tumorigenic cell evolves is as critical to its evolution as the genetic mutations it accrues. However, there is still relatively little known about how signals from the microenvironment contribute to the early events in the progression to malignancy. To address this question, we used a premalignant mammary model to e...

Metastatic tumors in the breast are quite rare and constitute 0,5 to 6% of all breast malignancies. They often occur in a polymetastatic context. Gastrointestinal lesions rarely metastasize to the breast. The first case of a metastasis deposit to the breast and ovary from gastric signet-ring cell carcinoma was reported in the literature in 1999. Since this report, only 5 cases have been reporte...

Dense deposit disease (DDD) is an orphan disease that primarily affects children and young adults without sexual predilection. Studies of its pathophysiology have shown conclusively that it is caused by fluid-phase dysregulation of the alternative pathway of complement, however the role played by genetics and autoantibodies like C3 nephritic factors must be more thoroughly defined if we are to ...