Background: Presurgical staging and characterization of renal masses can be accomplished with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Objective: Present study aims to determine the diagnostic accuracy in detecting clear cell carcinoma, taking histopathology as gold standard. Study design: Descriptive, cross-sectional study. duration settings: was conducted at department Diagnostic Radiology, Jinnah H...

INTRODUCTION Acute cholangitis (AC) is a clinical diagnosis entity. A high prevalence of acute inflammatory changes (AIC) are found in hepatic needle biopsies (HB) in these patients. The aim of our study is to determine the prevalence of AIC in HB performed on patients with AC due to biliary stones. METHODS Cross-sectional study. Surgery was performed at the Hospital Regional of Temuco. Patie...

Background: The aim of the present study was to find the effects of cadmium (Cd) on Japanese quail on the role of an animal model in order to understand the toxicity of Cd in creatures presented, within the environment. Methods: One hundred 30-day-old male Japanese quails were equally divided into the control group and Cd group. The control group received no Cd while the Cd group was given f...

Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT), particularly, type 2 EMT, is important in progressive renal and hepatic fibrosis. In this process, incompletely regenerated renal epithelia lose their epithelial characteristics and gain migratory mesenchymal qualities as myofibroblasts. In hepatic fibrosis (importantly, cirrhosis), the process also occurs in injured hepatocytes and hepatic progenitor...

In Indonesia illegal traditional liquor mostly contain ethanol and methanol some of called cukrik (mixed liquor), Misuse mixed can lead to intoxication may death. Several studies have shown its effect on kidney damage. This study is analyzing the (ethanol methanol) histopathological damage male Wistar rat kidney. was experimental laboratories using a post-test only control group design. We are ...

autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (adpkd) is an inherited disorder associated with multiple cyst formation in the different organs. development of pancreatic cyst in adpkd is often asymptomatic and is associated with no complication. a 38‑year‑old man with adpkd was presented with six episodes of acute pancreatitis and two episodes of cholangitis in a period of 12 months. various ima...