To investigate whether the width of gastric serosal lesions in advanced gastric cancer patients have a predictive value for peritoneal recurrence and the 5-year survival rate.A total of 1109 patients with advanced noncardia primary gastric adenocarcinoma, who underwent curative gastrectomy between January 1997 and December 2007, were included. Data about tumor size, longitudinal tumor location,...

Consecutive changes in two discrete layers of the egg shell of the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, have been claimed to control the uptake of water by the eggs. The development of the shell has been re-investigated with the electron microscope by examination of eggs at different stages of embryogenesis and of ovarioles containing oocytes at various stages of maturity. It is confirmed that fra...

AIM To assess whether higher sensitivity of colonic epithelium to hypoxia at the serosal side is associated with oxygen transfer asymmetry. METHODS Rats were fed either with normal chow or a low-sodium diet. Tissues were mounted as flat sheets in a modified, airtight Ussing chamber with oxygen meters in each hemichamber. Mucosal samples from normal diet animals were studied under control cond...

Background: Endometrioma is a common cause of gynecologic morbidity and the most common benign ovarian cysts are found at surgery. One of the most troubling aspects of treating endometrioma with laparoscopic excision is disease recurrence after surgery. Present study was conducted to evaluate risk factors for the recurrence of endometrioma after first laparoscopic excision. Materials and Method...

background: abnormal uterine bleeding is a common presentation of uterine abnormalities among premenopausal and postmenopausal women. objective: to evaluate and compare the diagnostic accuracy of saline contrast sonohysterography and hysteroscopy for detecting the cause of abnormal uterine bleeding. materials and methods: a total of 65 women with abnormal uterine bleeding were enrolled in this ...

Corresponding author: Wioletta Pietruszewska MD, PhD Department of Otolaryngology Medical University of Lodz 22 Kopcinskiego St 90-153 Lodz, Poland Phone: +48 602 225 721 E-mail: [email protected] 1 Department of Otolaryngology and Oncological Laryngology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland 2 Department of Nephropathology and Oncological Laryngology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, P...

UNLABELLED Respiratory obstruction and stridor in infants and children are not uncommon. A rare cause of these sometimes life-threatening symptoms is the congenital saccular cyst. OBJECTIVES We present the case of a 5-year-old girl with a cervical tumor, which appeared after a laryngeal endoscopic surgery of a saccular cyst with two relapses and a particular local evolution of its recurrence ...

The use of trans-vaginal ultrasound (TVU) has become increasingly popular in diagnosing and treating infertility. TVU allows for a detailed examination the female reproductive organs can aid identifying abnormalities that may be contributing to infertility [1]. Additionally, assist monitoring fertility treatments, such as vitro fertilization. By TVS diagnosis focal intrauterine lesions, uterine...