Cranial cruciate ligament rupture (CR) is a degenerative condition in dogs that typically has a non-contact mechanism. Subsequent contralateral rupture often develops in dogs with unilateral CR. Synovitis severity is an important factor that promotes ligament degradation. Consequently, we wished to evaluate the utility of arthroscopy for assessment of stifle synovitis in dogs with CR. Herein, w...

Objective-To determine the effect on tubal closure of intrauterine quinacrine by dose and time from administration. Design and Participants-Subjects included 33 women of reproductive age who were awaiting hysterectomy for nonmalignant conditions at a Bombay, India medical college. Ten women received 252 mg quinacrine as pellets using a modified Copper-T IUD inserter followed by hysterectomy wit...

Recent advances in neuroimaging techniques, particularly in magnetic resonance imaging, have led to substantially improved spatial anatomic resolution such that subtle or small central nervous system lesions, which could go undetected on gross examination of brain sections, are now readily identified on imaging. Although neuroimaging is generally considered the surrogate of gross neuropathology...

The purpose of this study is to determine new prognostic indexes for the differentiation of subgroups of breast cancer patients with the techniques of decision tree algorithms (C&RT, CHAID, QUEST, ID3, C4.5 and C5.0) and Cox regression analysis for disease-free survival (DFS) in breast cancer patients. A retrospective analysis was performed in 381 breast cancer patients diagnosed. Age, menopaus...

BACKGROUND A characteristic feature of prostatic adenocarcinoma is its great variation in biologic behavior. This variation and the observation that most carcinomas are of intermediate grade make standard histologic grading of limited value in determining the prognosis of a patient. METHODS DNA quantitation with the use of computer-assisted image analysis on Feulgen-stained nuclei was perform...

BACKGROUND Liver transplantation (LT) has been advocated as a salvage treatment for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Selection criteria still need to be developed in Taiwan. OBJECTIVES The purpose of our study was to assess the clinical findings and outcome of cirrhotic patients with HCC undergoing liver transplantation. METHODS Our study consisted of 13 HCC patients who underwe...

Histologic grading of breast cancer defines morphologic subtypes informative of metastatic potential, although not without considerable interobserver disagreement and clinical heterogeneity particularly among the moderately differentiated grade 2 (G2) tumors. We posited that a gene expression signature capable of discerning tumors of grade 1 (G1) and grade 3 (G3) histology might provide a more ...

Abstract Background Urinary bladder cancer is the second most common neoplasm of urinary tract. Tumor staging and regional disease spread are strongest predictors treatment outcome. Our study aims to compare diagnostic performance conventional diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI), using a 3T MR scanner, in grading with histopathologic correlation. Results The sensitivity, spec...

Pleural biopsies for the evaluation of malignant mesothelioma can be some of the most challenging cases faced by the practicing surgical pathologist. We review the epidemiology, clinical presentation, and imaging studies in patients with malignant mesothelioma, and then present a practical approach to the diagnosis using the cytologic features for malignancy and whether there is an epithelioid ...