Schwannomas, arising from nerve-sheath Schwann cells, rarely occur in the lip area. A Medline search in English literature from 1966 to 2002 revealed only 6 documented cases of schwannomas of the lip. We report the unusual case of a 22-year-old female patient who developed a schwannoma of the upper lip. Histopathological examination and immunohistochemical staining studies were performed, with ...

In the course of various experiments on larval trematodes, we often confront the necessity for determining their death. In such cases the movement of body, cilia or flame-cells is used commonly as an indicator to determine their death by many parasitologists. However, such movements appear to be not always coincident with the time of the death, consequently results of the diagnosis by such a te...