INTRODUCTION A study of the whole spectrum of biopsied head and neck (HN) diseases in Taiwan has not yet been performed. Therefore, the current study aimed to provide updated information about HN lesions in a cohort of referral Taiwanese patients for histopathological examination. METHODS HN lesions (2000-2011) in patients with records of age, sex, and histological diagnoses were retrieved fr...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the relative frequency of biopsied oral soft tissue lesions in Kuwait. MATERIALS AND METHODS Biopsy records and microscopic sections of all oral soft tissue biopsies seen in the Department of Histopathology at Al-Amiri Hospital, Kuwait, between January 2004 and December 2009 were reviewed. The biopsies were divided into two major groups; group...

although the majority of mesenchymal lesions of the gastrointestinal tract are neoplastic in nature, but nonneoplastic reactive processes may also involve the gastrointestinal tract and mesentery. some more aggressive neoplasms located in same area, such as fibromatosis or gastrointestinal stromal  tumors  may  be  cause  of  diagnostic  confusion.  reactive  nodular  fibrous  pseudo  tumor (rn...

Astroglial cells are the most abundant cells in the mammalian central nervous system, yet our knowledge about their function in bovine Herpesvirus type 5 (BoHV-5) has been limited. The aim of this study was to detect by immunohistochemistry assay the reactive astrocytes for glial fibrilary acidic protein (GFAP) and vimentin (VIM), considered intermediate filaments of the cytoskeleton, localized...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to provide information regarding oral and maxillofacial (OMF) lesions in an older Taiwanese population. BACKGROUND The rate of increase of older people in Taiwan is expected to be rapid. OMF lesions are very frequent in the older population, but no studies have been performed on these lesions in Taiwan. MATERIALS AND METHODS OMF cases (between 2000 and 2011) in geriatr...

Localized gingival growths are one of the maximum regularly encountered lesions within oral cavity, which taken into consideration to be reactive as opposed neoplastic. Those encompass pyogenic granuloma, inflammation fibroma, peripheral large cellular and ossifying fibroma (POF). Among those lesions, Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma (POF) is an occasionally happening non-neoplastic growth with reg...

Adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette efflux transporters are highly expressed at the blood-brain barrier and actively hinder passage of harmful compounds, thereby maintaining brain homoeostasis. Since, adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette transporters drive cellular exclusion of potential neurotoxic compounds or inflammatory molecules, alterations in their expression and function at the b...

Objective: Parietal and the visceral layers of mesothelium are separated by a thin layer lubricating fluid made up single flat cells. The three body cavities pleura, peritoneum, pericardium lined mesothelium. collection inside these is called an effusion may be due to variety inflammatory, infective, neoplastic causes often reactive mesothelial cells hyperplasia that sometimes very hard differe...