The author reports a rare case of sarcomatoid carcinoma with an emphasis on immunohistochemical features. A 79-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of hematuria. An endoscopy revealed a large polypoid tumor in the bladder, and urine cytology demonstrated malignant cells. A cystectomy was performed. The patient is now alive without metastasis 4 months after the operation. Grossly, a...

Title of dissertation: DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF TRANSITIONAL PULSATILE FLOWS IN STENOTIC VESSELS Nikolaos Beratlis Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Dissertation directed by: Professor Elias Balaras Department of Mechanical Engineering In the present work a numerical study of transitional pulsatile flow through planar and cylindrical constrictions is presented. First, a simulation carefully coo...

Introduction: Patient transitions between primary and hospital care include referral, discharge, and simultaneous care by the outpatient clinic and the general practitioner (GP). Research on referrals and discharge shows that safety incidents in these transitions are common. We developed the multifaceted Transitional Incident Prevention Programme (TIPP), which aims to improve transitional patie...

Tick-borne rickettsioses are often acquired in rural settings within the endemic areas; however, urban transmission also occurs. Conversely, epidemic typhus, murine typhus, and rickettsialpox characteristically are acquired in urban and suburban settings, where the vectors are found in close contact with humans. Scrub typhus is transmitted by the larval stage of a mite associated with transitio...

Background and Aims: Immunohistochemical tests are one of the most important tests, which are under study to determine the prognosis of the cancers such as transitional cell carcinoma. By the time, flexible cystoscopy and urine cytology are the routine tests for following up the patients with transitional cell carcinoma, which are both operator dependent. On the other hand, cystoscopy is an inv...

In this study, a constant pressure stimulus was applied on the 3 joints (first [p1], second [p2], and third [p3] joints) of 4 fingers (index, middle, ring, and little fingers), and the activation areas within Brodmann area 2 (BA 2) were compared for these different fingers and joints by using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Eight healthy male college students (25.4 ± 1.32 years) particip...

Peatlands in discontinuous permafrost regions occur as a mosaic of wetland types, each with variable sensitivity to climate change. Permafrost thaw further increases the spatial heterogeneity in ecosystem structure and function in peatlands. Carbon (C) fluxes are well characterized in endmember thaw stages such as fully intact or fully thawed permafrost but remain unconstrained for transitional...

Ambiguous stops between /t/ and /k/ tend to be heard as /k/ after /s/-final words and as /t/ after /ʃ/-final words. Elman and McClelland (1988, Journal of Memory and Language, 27, 143–165) obtained this compensation for coarticulation effect when the word-final fricatives were replaced with an ambiguous phoneme and argued that this indicated top-down lexical involvement in a prelexical process,...

We studied 52 patients, each with a lumbosacral transitional vertebra. Using MRI we found that the lumbar discs immediately above the transitional vertebra were significantly more degenerative and those between the transitional vertebrae and the sacrum were significantly less degenerative compared with discs at other levels. We also performed an anatomical study using 70 cadavers. We found that...

People at HSMC 10 clinicians in service planning. Interregnum notwithstanding, the speed with which transitional arrangements are being implemented ahead of legislation is unprecedented and raises important constitutional questions for a parliamentary democracy. The general direction remains clear: a re-configured commissioning landscape consisting of local consortia and a national Commissionin...