Study Objective To describe the protocol and preliminary results of SAGE Registry, which characterizes long-term (5-year) outcomes transcervical fibroid ablation (TFA) with Sonata® System when used to treat symptomatic uterine fibroids in real-world use. Design Ongoing post-market global registry. Setting Up 50 clinical sites. Patients or Participants 500 wom...

Background Pericolic fat stranding on computed tomography (CT) scans has been an important feature for staging colon cancer. However, the factors associated with pericolic fat stranding have not been elucidated to date. Purpose To determine factors associated with pericolic fat stranding of colon cancer on CT colonography (CTC). Material and Methods Overall, 150 patients with 155 colon canc...

High mobility groupbox-1 (HMGB1) is a multifunctional cytokine secreted by cancer cells, which accelerates cell growth, invasion and angiogenesis in cancer, and induces apoptosis in macrophages. Thioglycolate-stimulated mouse peritoneal macrophages were induced to differentiate into dendritic cells by co-treatment with IL-4 and GM-CSF. The number of mouse peritoneal macrophage-derived dendritic...

The effect of myomas on reproductive outcome has been the subject of many studies; however, a definitive answer is still missing. Therefore, the authors have tried to outline some guidelines for the management of women who have uterine myomas and desire to conceive. The location and size of the myomas are the two parameters that influence the success of a future pregnancy. Subserosal myomas see...

BACKGROUND Gastric lipomatosis is characterized by multiple gastric lipomas or a diffuse gastric infiltration of the submucosal or subserosal layer by the adipose tissue; diffuse-type gastric lipomatosis is an extremely rare condition. Here, we present the case of a patient with gastric lipomatosis treated by total gastrectomy. CASE PRESENTATION A 54-year-old man diagnosed with gastric submuc...

BACKGROUND The effect of fibroids that do not distort the endometrial cavity on pregnancy rate (PR) and implantation rate (IR) is controversial. Use of oocyte donor-derived embryos offers an ideal patient population to study the effect of fibroids in patients utilizing assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients undergoing oocyte do...

Case 1. D.J.S., a 4i-year-old boy, was admitted to the medical wards of Alder Hey Children's Hospital with a diagnosis of Henoch-Schonlein purpura. On the tenth day the child showed signs of intestinal obstruction and a mass was palpable in the right iliac fossa. He was transferred to the surgical wards with a diagnosis of intussusception. At operation an ileo-ileal intussusception was reduced ...

Epithelioid trophoblastic tumor (ETT) is a rare gestational trophoblastic neoplasm of chorionic-type intermediate trophoblasts, and it is most frequently located in the lower uterine segment and endocervix. Due to the epithelial-growth pattern with geographic necrosis exhibited by the neoplastic cells, ETT is commonly confused, both clinically and pathologically, with squamous cell carcinoma. A...