CASE DESCRIPTION A 74-year-old woman with toxic nodular goiter, diabetes mellitus, depression, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and hypercholesterolemia had routine serum protein electrophoresis done for the first time. Her medications included metformin, levothyroxine, sertraline, rosuvastatin, and rabeprazole. The patient’s renal function was normal. Serum protein electrophoresis was carried ...

Much of this paper results directly from collaboration with Dr. Richard Lindenberg. His interest in neuropathology as it concerns the visual pathways has become an avocation; for this I share credit with Drs. William F. Hoyt, J. Lawton Smith, and others. That Dr. Lindenberg is on the staff of the Wilmer Institute exemplifies Dr. A. Edward Maumenee's vision and foresight. Through Dr. Lindenberg'...

Approximately one third of problem gamblers in Finland suffer from pathological gambling. An essential factor affecting the genesis of pathological gambling is a dysfunction of the dopaminergic reward system. It may be associated with the pleasure arising from gambling along with the reward and expectance of reward. In Parkinsons's disease patients receiving dopaminergic medication, pathologica...

Although pathological lying was first described in the medical literature over 100 years ago, it remains a poorly understood concept. Psychiatrists continue to grapple with the full ramifications of the condition, even though interest specifically in pathological lying seems to have waned in recent times. The impact of pathological lying deserves critical attention from forensic psychiatrists b...

of remission, especially in the early stages of Hodgkin's disease, and has reduced pressure symptoms, and so rendered the remaining span of life not only longer but more endurable. I have repeatedly seen a localized focus of lymphadenoma tissue completely disappear under X-ray treatment and pressure symptoms relieved. But in spite of local success, recurrences sooner or later occur in the same ...

Cholangiocarcinoma (CC) arises from the biliary epithelium and in most cases represents adenocarcinoma. Pathomorphological evaluation is of decisive impact for the prognosis and management of CC. Morphological subtyping (histotype; hilar vs peripheral type), TNM classification, lymphatic spread, and resection margin status are of prognostic relevance. Distinction from hepatic metastases may be ...

introduction: androctonus crassicauda is one of the most dangerous scorpions in the world. this kind of scorpion which is found in tropical regions has been responsible for stinging people which result in dangerous side effects and even death. the study of the effects of this scorpion venom on some laboratory animals can determine the rate of pathological changes in tissue and may help to treat...