Background and Objective: Xanthogranulomatous oophritis is an uncommon, non-neoplastic, chronic process in which the affected organ is destroyed by massive cellular infiltration of foamy histiocytes admixed with multinucleated giant cells, plasma cells, fibroblasts, neutrophils, and foci of necrosis. The etiology of this entity is unknown, but it shares histopathological findin...

The association of target organ damage with 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels and ambulatory hypertension subtypes has not yet been examined in untreated Chinese patients. We measured left ventricular mass index by echocardiography (n=619), the urinary albumin:creatinine ratio (n=1047), and aortic pulse wave velocity by tonometry (n=1013) in 1047 untreated subjects (mean age,...

Organ donation is an integral part of the health care system. Many patients who have had an accident or have undergone a progressive disease are in need of an organ transplant and if they do not receive the required organ they would die. It is important to know that the most important source of organ donation is the brain death patients. It is highly essential to determine the pivotal factors t...

A novel concept of determining optimized cooling protocols for freezing three-dimensional organs has been developed and its feasibility examined computationally. The concept is based on determining correct spatial variation of temperature distribution on the walls of a freezing container at every instant of time during the cooling process so that local thermal stresses in the heterogeneous orga...

inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (imt) is an aggressive benign mass that may arise from various tissues and organs with a great variability of histological and clinical appearances. due to variable and nonspecific imaging findings, diagnosis of imt is not obtained before surgery. the aim of this paper is to present ct and mri findings during four-year follow-up of complete, spontaneous regres...

Neonatal nephroblastoma has been rarely reported in African neonate. A premature newborn (a 5-day-old male) was transferred with a history of neonatal abdominal mass. Ultrasonography revealed 75×46 mm, well-defined mass with mixed echogenicity replacing the right kidney. The patient underwent right radical nephrectomy and the tumor was confirmed to be a blastemal predominant Wilms' tumor by the...