OBJECTIVE To report 2 cases of coexisting mucous retention cyst and basal cell adenoma arising from the lining epithelium of the cyst. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION Two cases of painless swellings, well-demarcated, soft to palpation, and located in the submucosa of the upper lip were clinically examined with the provisional diagnosis of mucocele or salivary gland tumor. Histological ...

Resilient denture lining materials have been known as one of the effective measures for treating cases with severely atrophic mandible or with constant pain on residual ridge. The effective method of application and the mode of action of these materials, however, have not been clearly demonstrated yet. The main objective of this study was to investigate the influence of these materials on occlu...

in this paper, a systematic approach is presented for optimal design of tunnel support lining using two-dimensional finite element analysis models of soil-structure interaction developed in abaqus software and the modified colliding bodies optimization (mcbo) algorithm implemented in matlab environment. this approach is then employed to study the influence of variable geometrical and geo-mechan...

Several investigators have demonstrated an association between Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, there is no direct evidence that this virus exists in the synovial cells of patients with RA. We attempted to detect EBV in synovial cells from RA patients. Specimens of synovial tissues from 34 patients with RA and from 20 patients with osteoarthri...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging modality that enables assessment of tissue structural characteristics. Studies have indicated that OCT is a useful method to assess both blood vessel morphology and the response of a vessel to a deployed stent. We evaluated the ability of OCT to visualize the cellular lining of a tissue-engineered blood vessel mimic (BVM) and the response of this...

OBJECTIVE Free fragments of synovium have occasionally been seen in synovial fluid but have not been studied systematically. We wished to establish a method for the reliable detection of these fragments in joint and bursa effusions and begin to characterize them by histochemical and immunohistochemical methods. METHODS Cell smears, wet drop preparations and cytospins were prepared from 39 con...

Evapotranspiration is a central process of the hydrological cycle, and various water saving measures are based on it. However, there is little research work on evapotranspiration in the world. In particular, there is rare hydrological cycle-based research on the impact of channel lining on evapotranspiration in arid and semi-arid regions. This paper applies a hydrological cycle model to examine...