Exceptional Fatty Tumors

Intrathoracic Fatty Tumors.

Uncommon tumors and exceptional therapies: paradox or paradigm?

Why does it seem that, repeatedly, when a new treatment with a striking effect is discovered in the cancer field, it is effective for a very rare cancer type? For example, groundbreaking therapeutic discoveries have been made for extremely uncommon malignancies such as hairy cell leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia, seminoma, gastrointestinal stromal tumor, (del)5q myelodysplastic syndrome, ...

Arabidopsis ECERIFERUM2 is a component of the fatty acid elongation machinery required for fatty acid extension to exceptional lengths.

Primary aerial surfaces of land plants are coated by a lipidic cuticle, which forms a barrier against transpirational water loss and protects the plant from diverse stresses. Four enzymes of a fatty acid elongase complex are required for the synthesis of very-long-chain fatty acid (VLCFA) precursors of cuticular waxes. Fatty acid elongase substrate specificity is determined by a condensing enzy...

Competencies of Exceptional and Non-exceptional Software Engineers Competencies of Exceptional and Non-exceptional Software Engineers Submitted for Publication

The attributes of individual software engineers are perhaps the most important factors in determining the success of software development. Our goal is to identify the professional compe-tencies that are most essential. In particular, we seek to identify the attributes that diierentiate between exceptional and non-exceptional software engineers. Phase 1 of our research is a qualitative study des...

Renal Angiomyolipoma with Fatty Thrombus Extending to the Right Atrium: An Exceptional Presentation

This paper reports the case of 34-year-old woman who presented with bilateral renal angiomyolipomas (AMLs). On the right side, there was a large AML with a fatty thrombus extending to the right atrium. The treatment consisted of right nephrectomy and complete thrombectomy with extracorporeal circulation and right atriotomy. Postoperatively, the patient was septic and died on postoperative day 7...