A forty two years old woman with a history of bilateral breast augmentation for cosmetic reasons was presented for poor healing of the surgical site. Tissue and periprosthetic fluid were removed from the wound site revealing an atypical lymphoid infiltrate. Subsequently the patient developed axillary lymph adenopathy. Excisional biopsy was performed. Flow cytometry was non-diagnostic. She conti...

The thoracic duct is generally accepted as the major pathway of lymphocytes enroute to the circulating blood (1, 2, 3), accounting for approximately 70 per cent of all the lymphocytes in the peripheral blood. The remainder of the lymphocytes are said to enter the blood directly via the lymph from other sites (2). Reliable information concerning the hematologic content of lymph in the thoracic d...

We investigated the mechanisms of increase in the pulmonary vascular permeability, focusing on the changes in the peripheral white blood cell (WBC) counts and the surface expression of CD18 on polymorphonuclear cells (PMNs). Anesthetized sheep with chronic lung lymph fistulas were used in this study. We infused synthetic endotoxin (LPS) at a rate of 10 ng/kg/min (i.v.) continuously for 24 hr. W...

PURPOSE In this study we aimed to compare the flow cytometry (FC) results of patients with B cell lymphoma, T cell lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, granulomatous inflammation and reactive lymph node and investigate the role of FC in malignant or non malignant conditions. METHODS Ninety patients were divided into 5 groups according to histopathology results. Patients were compared according to cy...

background & objectives: colon cancer is currently of high incidence and mortality rate. identifying the factors influencing its prognosis can be very beneficial to its clinical treatment. recent studies have shown that lymph nodes ratio can be considered as an important prognostic factor. the aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of this factor on the prognosis of the patie...

BACKGROUND In arm lymphedema secondary to axillary surgery and radiotherapy (breast cancer-related lymphedema), the swelling is largely epifascial and lymph flow per unit epifascial volume is impaired. The subfascial muscle compartment is not measurably swollen despite the iatrogenic damage to its axillary drainage pathway, but this could be due to its low compliance. Our aim was to test the hy...

There is always rapid volume restitution of the accumulated interstitial fluid after a VCP (venous congestion plethysmography) protocol. It has been suggested that backward extrapolation of the relationship between applied hydrostatic pressure and fluid filtration may give a measure of tissue J (vL) (lymph flow); if so, this could be of immense value in pathophysiological investigations. We hyp...

P ulmonary microembolism is associated with the generation of prostaglandin thromboxanes.’ Since pulmonary microembolism also causes lung edema, the generation of these arachidonic acid products may contribute to extravascular fluid accumulation in the lung. Thromboxane A, (TxA,) is a particularly vasoactive substance in the pulmonary circulation since infusion of the cyclic endoperoxide analog...

• Clinically, the development of pulmonary edema is frequently associated with an elevation of left atrial pressure. However, overt pulmonary edema does not always occur with such pressure elevations, even when the plasma oncotic pressure is greatly exceeded. It is conceivable that a dilatation of the pulmonary lymphatic system might remove fluid from the lung and prevent, or delay, the develop...

• Clinically, the development of pulmonary edema is frequently associated with an elevation of left atrial pressure. However, overt pulmonary edema does not always occur with such pressure elevations, even when the plasma oncotic pressure is greatly exceeded. It is conceivable that a dilatation of the pulmonary lymphatic system might remove fluid from the lung and prevent, or delay, the develop...