BACKGROUND In liver transplantation, the donor and recipient are in different locations most of the time, and longer preservation periods are inevitable. Hence, the choice of the preservation solution and the duration of the preservation period are critical for the success of the transplant surgery. OBJECTIVE In this study, we examine the mechanical and histological properties of the bovine l...

Saliva is a major determinant of the oral environment and serves as an easily available diagnostic tool of systemic conditions1. Parotid gland parenchyma is subject to changes in its histological characteristics because of local or systemic conditions2. Any alterations in the integrity and activity of the salivary glands can change salivary flow and its composition, thus affecting patient’s nut...

A change in clinical behavior of a disease should prompt search for differential diagnoses. Here, the appearance of ulcerated skin nodules in a preexisting cutaneous mastocytosis revealed a concurrent lymphomatoid papulosis - a CD30+ lymphoproliferative skin disease with histological features of a malignant lymphoma, but with a benign self-healing course.

BACKGROUND In Taiwan, lung cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death and its incidence has been rising for the last 50 years. Shifts in histological types and differences in gender distribution have also accompanied the changed incidence of lung malignancies. METHODS A total of 590 lung cancer patients were interviewed at Kaohsiung Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, a medical center o...

Pulmonary lesions following paraquat poisoning are believed to be almost invariably fatal. The three patients reports here survived despite persistent radiological change. One of the patients died after taking a larger dose of paraquat one year later, and at necropsy histological changes attributable to the two episodes of paraquat poisoning were apparent.

High b-value q-space diffusion MRS was used to study the diffusion characteristics of formalin-fixed swine optic and sciatic nerves over a large range of diffusion times (3.7-99.3 ms). The very short diffusion time range was studied with a 1 ms resolution. The displacement distribution profiles obtained were fitted to a bi-Gaussian function, and structural parameters were extracted from the q-s...