Mass was mixed in consistency with firm and cystic areas on palpation. Adjacent tissues appeared normal on examination. She was booked for excision which was done with an elliptical incision at the base of the lesion. Mucosal defect was left open. There was minimal blood loss. Postoperative recovery was uneventful. The neonate was discharged home on the following day. Excised tissue was sent fo...

Mature fat tissue can be found in both benign lesions and neoplasms of the thyroid gland. The pathophysiology of adipose tissue infiltration in the thyroid gland is not clear. Three cases of diffuse lipomatosis and two cases of thyroid papillary microcarcinoma containing mature fat in their stroma were diagnosed between 2002 and 2009 years. These five cases are presented in this report with a r...

The centriole pair in animals shows duplication and structural maturation at specific cell cycle points. In G1, a cell has two centrioles. One of the centrioles is mature and was generated at least two cell cycles ago. The other centriole was produced in the previous cell cycle and is immature. Both centrioles then nucleate one procentriole each which subsequently elongate to full-length centri...

BACKGROUND Mature sacrococcygeal teratomas (SCT) are uncommon neoplasms comprised of mixed elements derived from the three germ cell layers. They attract attention because of their gross appearance and bizarre histology. AIM To demonstrate the clinical presentation and management of mature SCT in a neonate. PATIENT AND METHOD A case report of a neonate with mature SCT is hereby presented. ...

The question is whether “Board Testing has become stagnant” as an ITC topic. The implication is that the board test community has nothing new to invent, report or say that would be of use to the ITC community at large, and board test engineers in particular. This leads to the charge that ITC is really only an IC testing conference. While I must accept the fact that the IC content of ITC is much...