Broad ligament leiomyomas are uncommon but when they occur can present in varying degrees of bladder and bowel obstruction. A definite diagnosis the broad leiomyoma was made after histopathological report specimen obtained operating patient. 45 years old female had a history pain abdomen increase abdominal girth for 6 months. On basis CT scan left adnexal mass made. She advised surgery subseque...

A 52-year-old otherwise healthy woman presented with a solitary firm mass in the right breast. Histopathological evaluation of the 1.5-cm mass showed a mammary myofibroblastoma of the conventional spindle-cell type. High-power examination of hematoxylin-eosin-stained sections showed round, eosinophilic, intracytoplasmic, as well as extracellular, hyaline globules. These 5- to 20-µm globules app...

Many laboratories have found that their procedure for determining lecithin/sphingomyelin (L/S)ratios gives an unacceptably high proportion of false predictions of fetal lung immaturity. We investigated each step in the procedure, in an attempt to improve the clinical performance of the test and to make the method more amenable to standardization between laboratories. L/S ratios were determined ...

19 small for gestational age (SGA) infants with gestational ages less than or equal to 32 weeks were matched with 19 appropriate for gestational age (AGA) preterm neonates with similar risk factors for intraventricular haemorrhage and hyaline membrane disease. Gestational age, 1- and 5-minute Apgar scores, type of delivery, survival rate, use of corticosteroids before delivery, sex, twinning, p...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect that maintaining tracheobronchial sputum at room temperature has on the analysis of ciliary transport and cough, as well as on the contact angle. METHODS Hyaline sputum was collected from 30 individuals without pulmonary diseases, and purulent sputum was collected from patients with bronchiectasis. The samples were analyzed immediately after collection and aga...