A term male baby, after delivery, was found to have a 3-centimeter beefy-red mass protruding from the left chest wall, adjacent to the left nipple. Radiological imaging suggested it's origin from the left lateral liver segment. A diagnostic laparoscopy confirmed the isolated connection to the liver, elevated left hemidiaphragm, and protrusion between the ribs. The mass was excised using electro...

The liver harbors a specialized capillary bed. It is characterized by Lyve-1 and VEGFR3 expression, low CD31 and vWF expression and lack of CD34 expression [1], Moreover, the basement membrane is discontinuous, and liver sinusoidal endothelial cells are adjacent to a discontinuous basement membrane. Finally, the blood flow through liver sinusoidal capillaries is slow compared to many other orga...

Primary hepatic leiomyosarcoma is very rare and no primary myxoid leiomyosarcoma in the liver has been reported yet. Most cystic space-occupying lesions in the liver are benign in nature. But, rarely, malignancy could appear as a cystic lesion by ultrasonographic examination. A 64-year-old woman with a huge cystic mass detected by hepatic ultrasonography was diagnosed as primary hepatic myxoid ...

Splenosis is the autotransplantation of splenic tissue, most commonly seen after traumatic splenic rupture and splenectomy. Post-traumatic splenosis is often considered a rare entity, but is probably underreported because of its asymptomatic nature. We describe the first reported case of splenosis presenting as a liver mass, indistinguishable from a liver tumor by standard preoperative evaluati...

Lipoproteins that are removed from the circulation by the liver can deliver both cholesterol and triglycerides to the hepatocyte. Relative proportions of these lipids may vary in lipoproteins and, thus, their uptake may have differing effects on cholesterol homeostasis. To study this, lipoproteins containing the same amounts of cholesterol but different amounts of triglyceride were administered...

A 50-year old Malay female presented with a painless upper abdominal mass of three years duration. She was feeling anorexic and lethargic for about six months. There was no history of vomiting and colonic symptoms were absent. Examination revealed a thin anaemic lady with an intraabdominal mass of 5 x 7.5 ems., to the right of midline around the transpyloric plane. It was mobile in the oblique ...

A 7½-year-old girl is reported showing pre­cocious puberty and large abdominal mass for a year. The right ovarial cyst removed by surgery revealed histopathologically a granu­losa cell tumor. After removal of the tumor the estrogens were still increased and the signs of puberty showed no regression. This seems to be due to the hormonal activity of the metas­tases. Liver metastasis was present a...

We used a novel mouse model to study the effects of selective breeding for high locomotor activity (14 generations) on relative organ sizes, hematocrit (Hct), and blood hemoglobin (Hb) concentration. We also examined effects of exercise training and genotype-by-environment interactions by housing animals for 8 weeks with wheels that were either free to rotate or locked. Mice from the four repli...

SYNOPSIS. We used a novel mouse model to study the effects of selective breeding for high locomotor activity (14 generations) on relative organ sizes, hematocrit (Hct), and blood hemoglobin (Hb) concentration. We also examined effects of exercise training and genotype-by-environment interactions by housing animals for 8 weeks with wheels that were either free to rotate or locked. Mice from the ...