Intrahepatic biliary dilatation or Caroli's disease is a rare clinical entity of unknown etiology. It consists of dilatation of intrahepatic biliary ducts which communicate with normal common bile duct system. It may manifest at any age but usual age of presentation is late childhood or early adult life. The clinical features of disease includes recurrent abdominal pain associated with fever, h...

The early proliferative lesions of the breast have taken on greater significance as a result of mammographic screening and the use of even more sensitive imaging technologies. The intraductal proliferative lesions of the breast are a group of cytologically and architecturally diverse proliferations, typically originating from the terminal duct-lobular unit and confined to the mammary duct-lobul...

Introduction Hodgkin's disease may be associated with a variety of pathological lesions in the liver other than lymphomatous infiltration; lesions include granulomas, cholestasis which may rarely progress to cirrhosis, amyloidosis, and portal tract accumulations of histiocytes, eosinophils, lymphocytes and granulocytes. The patient to be reported, and several previous reports, suggest that sinu...

Purpose To describe the case of a patient developing corneal ectasia following LASIK for the correction of myopic astigmatism. Materials and Methods A 39-year-old man underwent bilateral uneventful LASIK for myopic astigmatism of -10.25 -1.75 ×040 OD and -8.00 -2.50 ×005 OS. Preoperative corneal pachymetry was 542 micrometers OD and 543 micrometers OS. Preoperative corneal topography showed b...

PURPOSE To evaluate changes in corneal topography indices after corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL) in patients with keratoconus and corneal ectasia and analyze associations of these changes with visual acuity. SETTING Cornea and refractive surgery subspecialty practice. DESIGN Prospective randomized controlled clinical trial. METHODS Corneal collagen crosslinking was performed in eyes wi...

BACKGROUND According to previous studies, aortic diameter alone seems to be insufficient to predict the event of aortic dissection in Marfan syndrome (MFS). Determining the optimal schedule for preventive aortic root replacement (ARR) aortic growth rate is of importance, as well as family history, however, none of them appear to be decisive. Thus, the aim of this study was to search for potenti...

PURPOSE To develop a computational approach to corneal biomechanical risk analysis in refractive surgery and to investigate its utility in an enigmatic case of unilateral ectasia after bilateral LASIK. METHODS Preoperative corneal elevation datasets from both eyes of a patient who developed unilateral post-LASIK ectasia were used to construct geometrically patient-specific, microstructurally ...

This retrospective analysis of a selected series of Bentall-De Bono procedures was carried out in order to evaluate the performance of the Carboseal composite valve graft (Sulzer Carbomedics Inc, Austin, TX, USA). Between October 1997 and April 2004, 120 patients underwent aortic root replacement with the Carboseal Composite Valve Graft. The mean age of patients was 59.7+/-13.4 years (range, 21...

It has been shown by numerous workers that prolactin participates in the mammary gland growth. Previously, we showed that prolactin induced alveolar formation when it was injected intraductally in the rabbit mammary gland having a moderately developed duct system with few alveoli in the histological study (Mizuno et al. , 1955)and in the study on the nucleic acids content(Mizuno and Naito, 1956...