Cholangitis is a serious life-threatening situation affecting the hepatobiliary system. This review provides an update regarding the clinical and pathological features of various forms of cholangitis. A comprehensive search was performed in the PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Knowledge databases. It was found that the etiology and pathogenesis of cholangitis are heterogeneous. Cholangitis can be cat...

Introduction: Extranodal Natural Killer (NK)/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL) nasal type is a rare but well-known disease with poor prognosis. NKTCL is more prevalent in Asia and comprises about 7-10% of all non-Hodgkin lymphoma cases in this region. The characteristic clinical pattern of NKTCL is the destruction of the midline structures of the mid-face. Case Report: The present study examines a case o...

Breast cancer accounts for the second most cancer diagnoses among women and the second most cancer deaths in the world. Until recently, evasive surgical biopsy was the only accurate and reliable diagnosis and prognosis tool. Of late, machine learning techniques have been applied to these tasks. We present a series of papers applying machine learning techniques to both problems of diagnosis and ...

The results of recent multicenter studies of stroke prevention are encouraging. Carotid endarterectomy is highly beneficial for patients with recent transient ischemic attacks (TIA) or nondisabling stroke and ipsilateral high-grade stenosis (70-99%); ticlopidine significantly lowers the risk of stroke in patients with TIA or minor stroke compared with aspirin or placebo,' and coumadin and aspir...

background: acute myeloid leukemia (aml) is a malignant disorder involving blood cells, characterized by obstructed or distorted differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells. in cytogenetically normal aml (cn aml), molecular abnormalities in npm, flt3, cebpa, and baalc genes are observed. initially, high baalc (brain and acute leukemia cytoplasmic gene) expression was introduced in a study on am...

introduction :  despite  recent  advances  in  treatment  of  oral  cancer,  it  still causes high rates of mortality and morbidity worldwide. delays in diagnosis and treatment of these cancers greatly affect the prognosis.  this study aimed to assess the treatment delay and its relation to diagnostic delay among oral cancer patients in tehran, iran. materials and methods : we studied 100 patie...

introduction: extranodal natural killer (nk)/t-cell lymphoma (nktcl) nasal type is a rare but well-known disease with poor prognosis. nktcl is more prevalent in asia and comprises about 7-10% of all non-hodgkin lymphoma cases in this region. the characteristic clinical pattern of nktcl is the destruction of the midline structures of the mid-face. case report: the present study examines a case o...

The incidence of oral cancer is high for those of Indian ethnic origin in Malaysia. Various clinical and pathological data are usually used in oral cancer prognosis. However, due to time, cost and tissue limitations, the number of prognosis variables need to be reduced. In this research, we demonstrated the use of feature selection methods to select a subset of variables that is highly predicti...