BACKGROUND Pseudocarcinomatous hyperplasia of the fallopian tube is a rare, benign disease characterized by florid epithelial hyperplasia. CASE PRESENTATION The authors present the history and details of a 22-year-old woman with bilateral pelvic masses and a highly elevated serum CA-125 level (1,056 U/ml). Ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the pelvis showed bilateral adn...

PURPOSE Plasma levels of lysophospholipids were evaluated as potential biomarkers for colorectal cancer (CRC), where a highly reliable and minimally invasive blood test is lacking. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with CRC (n = 133) and control subjects (n = 125) were recruited through the Cleveland Clinic. Preoperative plasma samples were analyzed for lysophospholipid levels using liquid chroma...

Support vector machines (SVM) are machine learning techniques that have been used for segmentation and classification of medical images, including segmentation of white matter hyper-intensities (WMH). Current approaches using SVM for WMH segmentation extract features from the brain and classify these followed by complex post-processing steps to remove false positives. The method presented in th...

F(ab')2 fragments are sometimes preferred to whole IgG for therapeutic or diagnostic uses. Preclinical pharmaceutical development studies are necessary before their use in humans. Here we propose an allometric approach among three mammalian species to predict F(ab')2 pharmacokinetic parameters in humans. Plasma disposition of horse antivenom F(ab')2 fragments labeled with iodine 125 was studied...

In a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled study, the effects of intravenous glutamate infusion on myocardial haemodynamics and metabolism were studied in 22 patients undergoing routine coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Immediately after aortic cross-clamp release, an intravenous infusion of a solution of glutamate (125 mmol x l(-1)) at a rate of 1.5 ml x h(-1) x kg(-1) was give...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to compare the relative, clinical intraocular dose distribution for palladium-103 (103Pd) versus iodine-125 (125I) ophthalmic plaque radiation therapy. METHODS Preoperative comparative radiation dosimetry was performed to evaluate 319 consecutive uveal melanomas treated between 2006 and 2012. RESULTS There were 68 (21.3 %) anterior (iris and/or ciliary bod...

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Hormones are agents of biological coordination that circulate systemically to signal diverse cells and tissues, thereby influencing nearly all aspects of the phenotype, including behavior, morphology, physiology, and life history. Hormonal phenotypes can be both heritable and subject to natural selection (Bonier et al. 2009; McGlothlin et al. 2010; Ouyang et al. 2011; Pavitt et al. 2014; Cox et...

Sao Paulo Med J. 2007;125(6):338-42. O R IG IN A L A R T IC L E Camila Toffoli Ribeiro Júlio César Rosa-e-Silva Marcos Felipe Silva-de-Sá Ana Carolina Japur de Sá Rosa-e-Silva Omero Benedicto Poli Neto Francisco José Candido dos Reis Antonio Alberto Nogueira Hysteroscopy as a standard procedure for assessing endometrial lesions among postmenopausal women Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics,...