BACKGROUND Chlamydia organisms are a significant cause of ocular and genital tract disease worldwide. Acute inflammatory responses are largely responsible for pathologic changes. METHODS Guinea pigs were inoculated in the conjunctiva with various infectious doses of Chlamydia caviae. We developed a predictive model and thresholds of the ocular pathologic response, on the basis of measurements...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) laser surgery as a conservative tool plays a peculiar role in the management of head and neck cancer. Numerous patients who were candidates for transoral laryngeal microsurgery have forced us to eliminate frozen-section evaluation of surgical margins and use a magnified view of the larynx. The present study evaluated surgeon-judged negative margins with permanent microscopi...

In this paper the authors propose a decision support system for automatic blood smear analysis based on microscopic images. The images are pre-processed in order to remove irrelevant elements and enhance most important ones - healthy cells (erythrocytes) pathologic (echinocytes). separated analyzed terms of their features by eigenfaces method. basis designing neural network classifier, learned ...

pathologic fractures of the jaw are usually associated with aggressive, destructive lesions or malignant lesions of the jaws. aneurysmal bone cysts (abc) of the jaws are benign lesions which normally do not cause destruction to such an extent. this article reports a relatively aggressive abc of the mandible in a 19 year-old male which destroyed the buccal and lingual cortices as well as the inf...