Choriocarcinoma, a nonseminomatous germ cell tumor, is a rare type of testicular malignancy that tends to occur in young males. It is, however, exceedingly rare for choriocarcinoma to involve the GI tract. In this article, we present a rare case of a 31-year-old male, diagnosed with choriocarcinoma of the left testes, along with several metastases to distant sites. The patient presented with he...

We formulate a control problem for GI/GI/N+GI queue, whose objective is to trade off the long-run average operational costs with server utilization costs. To solve problem, we consider an asymptotic regime in which arrival rate and number of servers grow large. The solution associated fluid motivates that non-idling service disciplines are not general optimal, unless some arrivals turned away. ...

Interest in the glycemic impact of diet on health and well-being is growing among health care professionals and consumers. Diets with high glycemic impact have been postulated to increase risk of obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. A reduction in the glycemic impact of the diet has been proposed as a means of assisting body weight management, improving blood gluco...

BACKGROUND Calciphylaxis is associated with a high mortality that approaches 80%. The diagnosis is usually made when obvious skin lesions (painful violaceous mottling of the skin) are present. However, visceral involvement is rare. We present a case of calciphylaxis leading to lower gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding and rectal ulceration of the GI mucosa. CASE REPORT A 66-year-old woman with past ...

PURPOSE To investigate added morbidity associated with the addition of pelvic elective nodal irradiation (ENI) to hypofractionated radiotherapy to the prostate. METHODS AND MATERIALS Two-hundred twelve patients, treated with hypofractionated radiotherapy to the prostate between 2004 and 2011, met the inclusion criteria for the analysis. All patients received 70 Gy to the prostate delivered ov...

A new G-protein was detected in human platelets which was ADP-ribosylated in a pertussis-toxin-dependent manner, was located in the supernatant of saponized platelets and was of a slightly lower molecular mass (40 kDa) than platelet membrane Gi alpha. This soluble ADP-ribosylated protein was immunoprecipitated by an antiserum to Gi alpha, but not by one to Go alpha. Prior thrombin stimulation o...

background: the iron deficiency anemia (ida) is a common cause of referral to medical departments. chronic gastrointestinal (gi) blood loss is important cause of ida and also an alarming sign of serious underlying disease. the information concerning ideal evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract in patients with the ida is scant. we designed a prospective study to determine the frequency of gi ...