Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) corresponds to 5-12% of all salivary gland tumours, and is classified as low, intermediate or high grade. Traditionally, immunohistochemistry was considered as the complementary tool for diagnosis of salivary gland neoplasia. Lectin histochemistry has also been increasingly used in recent years. In this work, lectins were used as histochemical markers for normal a...

A 75-year-old man was seen in the general practice our hospital because of fever 38-39℃, cough and purulent sputa on January 8 th . Six days before visit, he had chief complaint. The day before, visited a clinic. chest X-ray showed no pneumonia shadow suggesting bronchitis with old tuberculous changes. Azithromycin administered, but improvement seen. doctor sent him to hospital. Gram-stained sp...

in 1937 Meigs and Cass described the case of a patient with ascites and hydrothorax in association with a benign ovarian tumour in which removal of the tumour relieved the patient of the ascites and chest fluid. Later that year Rhoads and Terrell (1937) published a further case and proposed the name Meigs syndrome for this clinical pictture. In 1954 Meigs collected all reports in the English la...

A particulate component of mitochondria is described which is observed in negatively stained preparations of unfixed whole mitochondria or their fragments. It consists of a roughly spherical particle, approximately 85 A in diameter, found on the surface of the cristae and probably also on the side of the mitochondrial envelope which faces the matrix. It is attached to the underlying membrane by...

BACKGROUND Green-stained amniotic fluid does not always indicate that meconium was passed in utero. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 2280-g Hispanic preterm female born at 32 weeks of gestation with congenital jejunal atresia. The amniotic fluid was greenish stained; the initial impression was meconium-stained amniotic fluid. Postnatal findings revealed no meconium in her rectum. The...