The cervix is a biochemically active tissue that changes its biomechanical properties in a remodeling process during pregnancy to be prepared for parturition. This maturation process is associated with changes of the mechanical properties of the cervical stroma. Preterm delivery is connected with undesired cervical changes bound to cervical ripening. Non-destructive evaluation using ultrasonic ...

Cervical cancer is a disease characterized by the growth of abnormal cells in cervical tissue. mostly caused Human Papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18. The role genetic factors development malignancy mediated presence mutation HPV oncogene, especially oncogenes E6 E7. Oncogenic proteins E7 initiate dysregulation cellular proliferation apoptotic mechanisms targeting tumor suppressor proteins, s...

Cervical cancer is always preceded by epithelial lesions which have larger and more densely spaced nuclei than normal tissue. Detecting and removing these lesions prevents the development of cervical cancer. A proposed method to detect precancerous lesion in vivo is to use the nuclear size and density information from fiber optic confocal images of the cervical epithelial tissue to classify the...

Ectopic cervical thymoma is rare and is often misdiagnosed as a thyroid tumor or other malignancy. Ectopic thymic tissue can be found along the entire thymic descent path during embryogenesis. However, a thymoma arising from such ectopic thymic tissue is extremely rare. Herein we report a patient with ectopic cervical thymoma and myasthenia gravis (MG) and discuss the management.

BACKGROUND To evaluate the usefulness of this biomarker in the diagnosis of cases of cervical neoplasia we studied the immunohistochemical expression of p16INK4a in a large series of archival cervical biopsies arranged into tissue microarray format. METHODS TMAs were constructed with tissue cores from archival formalin fixed, paraffin-embedded donor tissues from 796 patients, and included cas...