Conventional beliefs and some publications, had in the past, asserted that systemic auto immune diseases such as inflammatory arthritis, connective tissue diseases and vasculitis are rare. Many of such reports had been hospital based and were not based on the ACR criteria. Rheumatoid arthritis was reported as being rare, especially among West Africans; so also Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Scle...

Fibroid is the commonest benign neoplasm of the uterus in females, composed of smooth muscle with variable amount of fibrous connective tissue, hence named as leiomyoma or fibromyoma. It is the commonest of all pelvic tumours in females, excluding pregnancy; being more common in nulliparous. It can be intra uterine / extra uterine. Extrauterine fibroids though do occur, but are not as common as...

Introduction: Ultrashort echo time (UTE) imaging offers advantages in being able to directly image tissues with T2 values less than a few milliseconds, such as tendons and cortical bone [1]. In the brain, short-T2 components are present in white matter [2] believed to be associated with myelin – as well as in connective tissues and calcifications, and these are known to be altered in neurodegen...

Histological relationships and the distribution of junctions between myocardial cells and connective tissue were investigated in the inter-ventricular septum. Pig hearts were studied using 2 techniques: Picro-Sirius red-collagen-staining of frozen sections for connective tissue septa, and immune-staining with antibodies against Desmoplakins for intercalated discs. By overlaying serial sections ...

E ndovascular grafting is being increasingly used to treat aortic aneurysms and dissections. However, patients with aneurysmal dissections involving both the thoracic and abdominal aorta are particularly challenging to treat because of the natural communications at the level of the visceral arteries, particularly in the presence of a defined connective tissue disease. Reports of hybrid procedur...