Synovial sarcomas (SS) are rare soft tissue sarcomas that usually arise near large extremity joints. SS may pose difficult diagnostic challenges on cytology when encountered as a monophasic variant. We report a 27-year-old woman diagnosed with metastatic monophasic synovial sarcoma by a CT-scan guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy of a left lower lung lobe nodule. We reviewed the literatu...

Mr. M.D.S., a 27-year-old Indian male, presented with complaints of diffuse body pain and spasms, 7 days after a needle penetrated his right foot at his place of work. He was diagnosed clinically with tetanus. The patient was electively intubated to protect the airway and transferred to an intensive care unit. In addition to his tetanus, he developed multiple hospital-acquired infections. After...

A SCHEME for an artificial language was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Eoyal Society for 1668 by Bishop Wilkins. Since, however, it presupposes a complete enumeration of all that is or can be known, it would be overthrown by every considerable advance in knowledge. The mathematician and philosopher Leibnitz devoted much thought to what he called a spécieuse générale, which h...

We report a rare case of mixed medullary-follicular carcinoma and papillary carcinoma of the same thyroid. A 27-year-old Chinese female complained of a single thyroid nodule for 2-3 months. Needle aspiration revealed suspicious papillary carcinoma and thyroidectomy performed later showed mixed medullary-follicular carcinoma and papillary carcinoma of the same thyroid which was extremely rare. W...

We have studied the influence of two different speeds of injection on the spread of spinal anaesthesia of bupivacaine in 40 orthopaedic patients. In a random order, 0.5% plain bupivacaine 3 ml was administered in 10 or 180 s into the subarachnoid space using a 27-gauge needle with the patients in a lateral horizontal position. The slower speed produced a higher spread of spinal anaesthesia (med...

SUMMARY Sometimes, after local anesthetic injection for surgical procedures of the upper eyelid, it is possible to observe superficial preseptal hematomas or excessive lid swelling that may distort the tissues and obscure surgical landmarks. We present a technique to perform local anesthesia of the upper eyelids, using a 27-gauge needle and a 26-gauge filling cannula, that may decrease the inci...

The cytological diagnoses of 27 lymph node aspirates were compared with the histological diagnoses or clinical outcome in 23 HIV positive patients. There was agreement between the cytological and histological diagnoses in 14 of the 16 surgically biopsied cases. The clinical outcome in the remaining 11 cases was consistent with the cytodiagnosis. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) is a reliable, minim...

This paper explores the integration of load balancing features in the data parallel lan guage HPF targeting semi regular applications We show that the HPF virtual pro cessors are good candidates to be the unit of migration Then we compare possible implementations and show that threads provide a good tradeo between e ciency and ease of implementation We nally describe a preliminary implementatio...

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...