W hen a suspicious lesion is noted on the chest x-ray film, a battery of procedures is employed to establish the diagnosis and extent of the disease. Bronchoscopy; lymph node biopsy, biopsy of the lesion; liver, bone and brain scanning; and efforts to determine if the lesion is primary or metastatic are all used in careful selection and staging. This discussion is limited to a brief review of s...

The diagnosis of primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in high risk patients, such as those with chronic hepatitis B or C with/without cirrhosis the liver, can be made relevant image studies alone; however, morphologic confirmation by cytology histopathology is essential to metastatic HCC because treatment latter differs from that extrahepatic malignancy. Although both and are important tools ...

RYAN MATTHEW PHILLIPS: Development of a Novel Assay of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Activity in Single Cells Using Capillary Electrophoresis (Under the direction of The inhalation of diesel exhaust particles has been linked to human diseases In vitro studies have implicated the inhibition of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) by diesel exhaust components as a contributor to the inflammatory p...

Background Lower respiratory tract infections are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children worldwide. Timely accurate pathogen detection is crucial for proper clinical diagnosis therapeutic strategies. The low efficiency conventional methods specificity using samples seriously hindered pathogens. Methods In this study, we retrospectively enrolled 1,032 to evaluate performance me...