OBJECTIVES To prospectively evaluate the effect of different dietary management strategies on the rate of acquisition of tolerance in children with cow's milk allergy (CMA). STUDY DESIGN Otherwise healthy children (aged 1-12 months) diagnosed with CMA were prospectively evaluated. The study population was divided into 5 groups based upon the formula used for management: (1) extensively hydrol...

AIM In this report, we aim to determine the prognostic factors influencing the length of survival in patients with low-grade gliomas. MATERIAL AND METHODS In a retrospective evaluation, we have reviewed fiftythree patients who had been operated between the years of 1980 and 2006. The diagnoses of the patients were histopathologically verified as low-grade glioma(LGG). The medical records of t...

We have routinely used an intraoperative CT (i-CT) system in over 800 neurosurgical procedures since 1997. To investigate the utility of i-CT in low-grade glioma (LGG) surgery, we investigated whether i-CT improved the extent of tumor resection and prognosis in 46 patients with histologically confirmed LGG consisting of 27 patients with World Health Organization grade II astrocytoma, 12 with ol...

Objective: Study the influence of pre-competition intensive training on B lymphocyte immunity of excellent track and field athletes. Method: Select 10 excellent track and field athletes of the school to receive pre-competition intensive training and observe the influence of long-time training and competition on B lymphocyte immunity of these athletes. Result: In this study, the concentration of...

BACKGROUND Functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) studies results in case of an adult patient with low grade glioma (LGG) in dominant hemisphere suggest brain plasticity process with acquisition of language functions by the non-dominant hemisphere speech regions. CASE REPORT A 36-years old right-handed woman was admitted to the Department of Neurosurgery for surgical treatment of brain tumor. A...

OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to investigate the value of intraoperative contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) for evaluating the grade of glioma and the correlation between microvessel density (MVD) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). METHODS We performed intraoperative conventional ultrasound (CUS) and CEUS on 88 patients with gliomas. All of the patients have undergone surger...

Aim: To evaluate the relationship between serum antibodies against ox-LDL levels and adult acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML). Methods: Forty three patients with AML and 52 normal controls were enrolled in this study in the Department of Hematology, Tumor Center of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University from Feb. 2008 to Mar.2009. Serum lgG and lgM antibodies versus the oxLDL levels were evaluated...

In a previous communication (Barber et al. [1 ] ) it has been shown that there exists in human serum a cobalt-activatable enzyme which splits 1leucylglycylglycine (LGG). The rate of hydrolysis in normal adult individuals is between 5.5 and 8.5% per hour (in the previous communication the rate of hydrolysis of LGG by serum of normal adult controls was stated to be 6.1 to 7.8%o per hour. This val...

Introduction. The ability to reliably differentiate neoplastic from nonneoplastic specimen and ascertain the tumour grade of diffusely infiltrating gliomas (DIGs) is often challenging. Aims and Objective. To evaluate utility of image morphometry in identifying DIG areas and to predict tumour grade. Materials and Methods. Image morphometry was used to analyze the following nuclear features of 30...

BACKGROUND We investigated the functional status of adult supratentorial superficial low-grade glioma (ASS-LGG) after surgery and analyzed its relevant factors to guide the therapeutic strategy and improve the life quality of these patients. METHODS Clinical materials from January 2008 to December 2010 in 104 adults with ASS-LGG were analyzed retrospectively. The follow-up period ranged from ...