Liver metastases are the most frequent malignant liver lesions. Besides colorectal carcinoma, gastric carcinoma, pancreatic carcinoma, breast cancer, lung cancer, and neuroendocrine tumors are the most common entities that metastasize to the liver. The morphology of these metastases depends on the primary tumor. For morphologic and functional imaging of non-colorectal liver metastases, multiple...

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia-cardiomyopathy (ARVD-C) is a rare heart condition with characteristic thinning and fibroadipose tissue replacement of the myocardium of the right ventricular wall. We have seen 20 autopsy cases with morphologic features fitting the criteria of ARVD-C in our hospital in the past 5 years. The clinical characteristics of these patients were not those desc...

V lesions are of principal importance in the progression of various primary and secondary kidney diseases (1). In the majority of individuals with kidney diseases, vascular component, is involved secondarily in the disease process affecting primarily the glomeruli. Indeed, in IgAN as a common and progressive glomerulopathy, impaired kidney function, hypertension, proteinuria and interstitial fi...

The purpose of this report is to present educational material that would allow the dental student to learn to easily identify the morphologic characteristics of permanent teeth, and how they fit together (occlusion). In order to do this, macro models of permanent teeth with no attrition were carved in wax and later molded with alginate. These molds were filled with plaster, dental stone and/or ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Class III malocclusions are considered complex and difficult orthodontic problems to diagnose and treat. The purpose of this study was to investigate the morphologic characteristics of the craniofacial complex of adults with Class III malocclusion in an Iranian population. MATERIALS AND METHODS Lateral cephalometric radiographs of 50 patients with Class III malocclusion (2...

A captive 4-year-old female red-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae) presented with anorexia, diminished activity and thick, beige, crusted lesions over the cere, legs, wings and cloaca. Deep skin scrapings from various lesions identified Knemidokoptes pilae as the causative agent. For treatment, the crusts were debrided, and the lesions were topically treated with ivermectin, chlorhe...

The World Health Organization (WHO) classification of hematopoietic neoplasms, published in 2001, included the new category of “Myelodysplastic/ Myeloproliferative Diseases,” intended to accommodate those myeloid neoplasms that simultaneously showed features of chronic myeloproliferative disorders and myelodysplastic syndromes. Typically, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are clonal neoplastic di...

Since the invention of the microscope and the discovery of microorganisms in the 17th century [1], the study of microorganisms and the field of microbiology research have come a long way from the traditional observations of their phenotypic properties/characteristics. Phenotypic characteristics of interest in the characterization and identification of microbes include morphologic characteristic...

We have little synthetic understanding of the characteristics of successful plant invaders, i.e., those that become naturalized. I will make, however, three observations about the characteristics of these species: 1) If considered collectively, their morphologic, genetic, and ecological characteristics in many regions (including Hawai`i) are as diverse as the characteristics of the native vascu...