Rheumatic fever is typical of the collagen diseases in that lesions of mesenchyme, heart, blood vessels, joints, and serous membranes are frequently associated with hyperglobulinaemia, lymphadenopathy, and splenomegaly. Not only is the disease typical but it occurs more frequently and, being a prepubertal disease, is less complex than most of the diseases of the group. There are, therefore, sev...

Abstract Objective Identifying potentially modifiable risk factors for ovarian cancer is essential prevention because this predominantly detected at a late stage. Here, we estimated the relations of general adiposity and measures reflecting body fat distribution to epithelial cancer. Methods We ascertained 683 cancers (343 high-grade serous, 141 non-high grade serous) among 145,575 women, aged ...

BACKGROUND Oxidative damage and DNA repair dysfunction are associated with carcinogenesis. 8-OHdG is one of the major oxidative DNA adducts. Present work aims to investigate whether the expression of 8-OHdG and its key repair gene hOGG1 play distinctive role in two types of serous ovarian cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS 8-OHdG level in DNA from tumor and matched tumor-adjacent normal tissue in ...

Cystic tumors of the pancreas are rare neoplasms. They are more frequently identified given the improvements in imaging techniques. Serous cystadenomas are the most common among cystic neoplasms of the pancreas. In this case report we present a patient who was incidentally found to have a cystic mass in the pancreas during an abdominal imaging done for unrelated reasons and was diagnosed as ser...

the middle ear is the most prevalent disease of childhood. The other areas of the temporal bone which can be contiguous with the middle ear, including the mastoid, petrousus apex and perilabyrinthine air cells, may also be involved. Otitis media can be further divided into acute otitis media (AOM) without effusion, otitis media with effusion (OME), chronic suppurative otitis media (COM) with or...

central serous chorioretinopathy (cSc) was first described more than 140 years ago. due to the rapid development in modern imaging methods, better understanding of changes occurring in the retina in cSc is possible. Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SdocT) has increased our ability to study this disease, especially microstructural changes during active phase and after resolution of ...

Central serous chorioretinopathy is a common acquired maculopathy. Multiple studies showed that photodynamic therapy is useful treatment for acute and chronic central serous chorioretinopathy. The exact mechanism of photodynamic therapy in treating central serous chorioretinopathy is not clear, but it is thought to be caused by short-term choriocapillaris hypoperfusion and long-term choroidal v...

The peritoneum is the largest serous membrane of the body and can be exposed to several injuries that may cause abnormal findings on imaging exams. Linear peritoneal calcification is remarkably rare, usually secondary to long duration peritoneal dialysis. We report an uncommon case of extensive peritoneal calcification in a 39-year-old female without long exposure to peritoneal dialysis solutio...