Lymphoma is hard to be diagnosed without an exact pathologic evidence. Eosinophilia might be one of its signs. However, some other clinical characteristics such as special contact history, pulmonary infiltrates, and the effectiveness of prednisone treatment could mislead our diagnosis. Here we report a case of lymphoma accompanied with pulmonary infiltrates and clinical feature of eosinophilia.

IntroductionNeoadjuvant cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy improves survival in muscle-invasive bladder cancer. However, response rates and remain suboptimal. We evaluated the efficacy, safety, tolerability of cisplatin plus cabazitaxel.MethodsA phase II single-arm trial was designed to recruit at least 26 evaluable patients. This would give 80% power detect primary endpoint, an objective...

INTRODUCTION Evidence has demonstrated that tumor size is related to adverse oncologic outcomes in small renal tumors (≤ 4 cm). We evaluated the association of adverse pathologic features (APF) with tumor size and survival in patients with a small renal mass (SRM). MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the pathologic characteristics of 380 surgically resected SRMs from a single in...

INTRODUCTION Patients with rectal cancer who exhibit a pathologic complete response to preoperative concurrent chemoradiotherapy have excellent oncologic outcomes. In this study, we evaluated the potential advantages of adding oxaliplatin to preoperative fluoropyrimidine-based chemoradiotherapy administered in rectal cancer patients. METHODS A total of 78 patients with rectal cancer were enro...

In this paper, a unified approach to speech enhancement, feature extraction and feature normalization for speech recognition in adverse recording conditions is presented. The proposed frontend system consists of several different, independent, processing modules. Each of the algorithms contained in these modules has been independently applied to the problem of speech recognition in noise, signi...

Background & Aims: Various antiviral drugs such as amantadine are used to treat influenza. This drug is categorized in group C and few researches have been conducted about its toxic effects on human fetus. In the current study, the pathologic effects of the drug as well as drug efficacy in reducing influenza virus titer in the developing chicken embryo were assessed. <br ...

The identification of the state of human peripheral vascular tissue by using artificial neural networks is discussed in this paper. Two different laser emission lines (He-Cd, Ar+) are used to excite the chromophores of tissue samples. The fluorescence spectrum obtained, is passed through a nonlinear filter based on a high-order (HO) neural network neural network (NN) [HONN] whose weights are up...

BACKGROUND N2-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) exhibits extremely low survival rates. The role of surgery in operable locally advanced N2 NSCLC remains controversial. In this study, we tried to analyze the role of surgery in resectable N2 NSCLC and the relationship between survival and clinico-pathologic factors from a pathologic point of view. METHODS 108 resectable pathologic N2-...

different studies have reported contradictory results about the effect of osteoporosis on periodontal status. we performed this study to evaluate the periodontal status of menopausal women by methods with enough accuracy and confidence.this study was performed based on the evaluation of bone mineral density using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry in 2010. a total of 60 patients who met the inclu...