Peritoneal tuberculosis is still common in Morocco. Its diagnosis is based on several methods. Laparoscopy with directed biopsies is still considered as the referenced method. The aim of our work is to show the place and the importance of laparoscopy in the diagnosis of peritoneal tuberculosis through the study of various endoscopic aspects. Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective descri...

A 39-year-old woman was admitted with complaints of headache and nasal discharge on the left for 3 months which was later on proved to be cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Neurological examination found no abnormalities except bilateral papilledema. Neuroimaging demonstrated enlargement of the lamina cribrosa foramina through which the olfactory nerves pass, as well as empty sella and cerebral cortica...

Decision-theoretic rough set theory (DTRS) is becoming one of the important research directions for studying set approximations using Bayesian decision procedure and probability theory in rough set community. In this paper, a novel model, fuzzy multigranulation decision-theoretic rough set model (FM-DTRS), is proposed in terms of inclusion measure of fuzzy rough sets in the viewpoint of fuzzy m...

E since the kidney has been implicated as a major factor in the genesis of hypertension, search for morphologic alterations which could account for this relationship has been intensive. However, Castelman, Smithwick, and Palmer, who published, in 1941, the results of renal biopsies in 100 cases of hypertension, were unable to detect any specific abnormality except changes in blood vessels simil...

1. Synovial cultures are differentiated in tissue cultures from other tissues of mesenchymal origin by their type of growth and cell function. 2. In these respects they are more closely allied to chondroblasts and osteoblasts than to fibroblasts. 3. Synovial cells in tissue cultures develop marked globular cytoplasmic granulations that stain easily with neutral red and sometimes with toluidine ...

The arachnoid granulations or villi are not always present in lower mammals and even in human late prenatal fetus. They grow in number and size with advanced age, and thus it seems appropriate to regard them as safety-valves for the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to be prevented from its hypertension accompanied by the age and by the increasing volume of the brain. Using 2 macaque monkeys and 12 rat...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Arachnoid granulations (AGs) of the posterior wall of the temporal bone are a rare cause of spontaneous CSF leakage. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and appearance of presumed AGs, evidenced by the posterior wall defects of the temporal bone with lobulated or scalloped margins on CT scans. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed CT ...

changes are chiefly,?cloudy swelling of the hepatic cells, the nuclei of which soon disappear fallowed by disintegration of the hepatic cell nucleus. A few mouths ago I had tlie opportunity of performing a post-mortem examination in a case of hepatio abscess that had been opeued and was drained and otherwise treated antiseptically. The patient died from intestinal haemorrhage resulting from dys...

The arachnoid membrane (AM) and granulations (AGs) are important in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) homeostasis, regulating intracranial pressure in health and disease. We offer a functional perspective of the human AM's transport mechanism to clarify the role of AM in the movement of CSF and metabolites. Using cultures of human AG cells and a specialized perfusion system, we have shown that this in ...

Arachnoid villi and granulations are thought to represent the primary sites where cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is absorbed. However, these structures do not appear to exist in the fetus but begin to develop around the time of birth and increase in number with age. With the use of a constant pressure-perfusion system in 2- to 6-day-old lambs, we observed that global CSF transport (0.012 +/- 0.003 m...