Undergraduate students are increasingly engaged in developing products, technologies, and services that are commercially viable through their involvement in courses and experiential programs focused on entrepreneurship and product design. Little is known about the degree to which these activities are creating protectable intellectual property (IP) or the degree to which student involvement in t...

Scleroderma renal crisis has been documented as the presenting manifestation of systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma in pregnancy only once in the literature. Unfortunately, since scleroderma renal crisis in sine scleroderma pregnant patients is so rare, that patient expired. We present a case of a sine scleroderma pregnant patient with an initial manifestation of scleroderma renal crisis surviv...

Wegeners granulomatosis is a necrotizing granulomatous vasculitis with multisystemic involvement. We present two cases of Wegener's presenting with otological manifestations as the first symptom. These symptoms are subtle and diagnosis may be easily overlooked. Hence a high index of suspicion is required. Early diagnosis and treatment goes a long way in improving the outcomes and in preventing ...

Erythropoietic activities and immature reticulocyte production were investigated in a total of 157 patients (81 men, 76 women, median age = 42 yr, range = 23 to 65 yr) with acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL, n = 31), acute myeloid leukemia (AML, n = 39), or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL, n = 87), based on assays of the hemogram, red cell indices, reticulocyte subpopulations, and intramedullary erythro...

In this report, we describe a method for quantitative bone scan interpretation (the Bone Scan Index or BSI) in advanced prostate cancer. The BSI estimates the fraction of the skeleton that is involved by tumor, as well as the regional distribution of the metastases in the bones. The purpose of this report is to describe the development and validation of this method in terms of reproducibility a...

To evaluate whether myocardial performance index detects a subclinical impairment of left ventricular systolic and diastolic function in patients with early stage of type 2 diabetes, without coronary artery disease, with or without hypertension. Furthermore, to evaluate whether some echocardiographic parameters relate to the metabolic control. Fourty-five consecutive male patients (mean age 52....

Giant cell tumor of the tendon sheath (GCTTS) is the second most common benign tumor of the hand. Although bony indentation from external compression by the GCTTS is frequently seen on x-ray film, the intraosseous invasion is relatively rare and is a sign for high recurrence. We present a woman with extensive GCTTS located in the left index finger at the level of distal interphalangeal joint. X...

BACKGROUND Obesity seems to be linked to the hypothalamic involvement in craniopharyngioma. We evaluated the pre-surgery relationship between the degree of this involvement on magnetic resonance imaging and insulin resistance, as evaluated by the homeostasis model insulin resistance index (HOMA). As insulin-like growth factor 1, leptin, soluble leptin receptor (sOB-R) and ghrelin may also be in...