Objective: To ascertain the prevalence of cervical dysplasia and the relationship between the degree of cervical dysplasia and HAART in HIVpositive women. Method: This was a cross-sectional study involving 250 HIV positive women on HAART attending the HIV clinic of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH). Cervical smears were collected from participants, examined and reported u...

OBJECTIVE To describe skeletal findings in patients with Kniest dysplasia, focusing on osseous abnormalities that have not been characteristically associated with this disorder. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a retrospective study. The radiographs of four patients with known Kniest Dysplasia were evaluated by three musculoskeletal radiologists. RESULTS Bilateral radial head dislocations and...

background: syndecan‑1 is abundant in normal tissues and reduced in squamous cell carcinomas. leukoplakia and oral submucous fibrosis (osf) are oral pre‑cancerous disorders that have potential for malignant transformation. the aim of this study was to evaluate the expression of syndecan‑1 in leukoplakia and osf and to identify its role as a reliable marker for predicting malignant changes. mate...

BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a life-threatening complication of ulcerative colitis (UC), and patients are routinely screened for the development of precancerous lesions (dysplasia). However, rates of CRC development in patients with confirmed low-grade dysplasia vary widely between studies, suggesting a large degree of heterogeneity between these lesions that is not detectable macrosco...

The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence and heritability of elbow dysplasia in the Estrela mountain dog breed, to investigate genetic trends over the last 20 years (1990–2009) and to evaluate the association of individual records with breeding values. The elbows of 351 Estrela mountain dogs were examined using the flexed mediolateral radiographic view and evaluated using the Int...

In a prospective study of women with dysplasia, a superficial sampling biopsy of the cervix was carried out as a periodic check of the cytological findings. The relationship of smear and biopsy results was evaluated, as well as the effect of the biopsy procedure on the subsequent course of dysplasia. We found sufficiently close agreement between smear and biopsy results to conclude that smears ...

Hypertension has a long list of primary as well as secondary causes. Fibromuscular dysplasia is amongst the rare secon­ dary causes of hypertension. Intimal fibroplasia as a pathologic cause occurs in less than 10% of patients with fibromuscular dysplasia. We report a rare case of hypertension due to intimal fibromuscular dysplasia of renal artery, treated successfully with renal angioplasty an...

Kyphoscoliosis is a complication of some bone dysplasias, including Cleido-cranial dysplasia (CCD). We report on massive spinal dysplasia secondary to severe spinal dyssygmentation associated with marked defective ossification of the ischium, detected in a Tunisian female child with a severe form of Cleido-cranial dysplasia. Literature review on Cleido cranial dysplasia and associated spinal ab...

Data from 2,764 Rottweiler dogs born from 1987 to 1996 were analyzed with a Restricted Maximum Likelihood procedure using a mixed linear animal model to obtain variance component estimates for hip and elbow dysplasia. The data included 2,764 hip dysplasia and 2,278 elbow dysplasia records. Hip joints were scored as normal (0), borderline (1), slight (2), moderate (3), and severe (4, 4.5, and 5)...