Background & objective: Regarding the importance of histologic examination of testicular biopsy for clinical planning of infertility, the current study was conducted to compare 2 separate histologic examination of testicular biopsy. Also, some cases with known fertility outcome were followed and their histological patterns were also compared with those of the outcome. ...

BACKGROUND Osteochondral defects continue to be a clinical treatment challenge, and when left untreated, may cause pain and functional impairment. Pyrolytic carbon is a unique isotropic biomaterial used in heart valve and small joint replacements due to its excellent wear properties and biocompatibility with bone and articular cartilage. Therefore, a proposed solution is to utilize a focal pyro...

IMPORTANCE Nonchordomatous clival lesions are rare and represent a wide range of different benign and malignant pathologies. For an accurate and specific final diagnosis, biopsy procedures and/or resections followed by histologic examination are mandatory. OBJECTIVE To illustrate the challenges in obtaining a final histologic diagnosis in patients with various types of clival lesions. DESIG...

PURPOSE To determine the prognostic significance of histologic type in radiation-associated soft tissue sarcomas (RASs) and determine whether RASs are associated with an inferior prognosis compared with sporadic soft tissue sarcomas (STSs). PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred thirty primary RASs were identified from 7,649 STS patients from 1982 to 2007. Multivariate analysis of clinicopathologic f...

BACKGROUND The histologic appearance of the repair tissue after articular cartilage resurfacing procedures in humans is not well documented. HYPOTHESIS The histologic and immunohistochemical appearance of the repair tissues in failed articular cartilage resurfacing procedures will be similar, regardless of the procedure that was done, and will not resemble normal articular cartilage. STUDY ...

Lung cancer generally arises in the epithelial tissue of the lung. Several different histologic or cell types of lung cancer have been observed. The various types of lung cancer occur in different regions of the lung and each type is associated with slightly different risk factors (Blot and Fraumeni 1996). The most common type of lung cancer in the United States today is adenocarcinoma which ac...