Fibrous dysplasia is a common benign skeletal lesion that may involve a single bone or multiple bones. Although fibrous dysplasia can affect any bone, monostotic fibrous dysplasia of the long bone typically occurs in the diaphysis or metaphysis. We report a very rare case of monostotic fibrous dysplasia involving the epiphysis of the distal femur in a young man.

Objective: To analyse the clinical characteristics and imaging findings of maxillofacial fibrous dysplasia and the relationship between serum alkaline phosphatase and its clinical relative factors. Method: The clinical materials of 72 fibrous dysplasia patients were reviewed and the alkaline phosphatase among monostotic fibrous dysplasia, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia and non-fibrous dysplasia ...

[1] A number of parameterization schemes are available to determine the collection efficiency of ultrafine particles (UFP) onto vegetated surfaces. One approach represents the vegetated elements as a fibrous filter with a characteristic fiber size that is difficult to a priori determine, while the other, a more conventional approach, represents vegetation as a porous medium. To date, no attempt...

BACKGROUND Recently, ultrasonic tissue characterization of the composition of plaques has been performed in a quantitative fashion on the basis of integrated backscatter (IBS) analysis, but most of those studies have used high-frequency ultrasound to obtain microscopic images. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed B-mode measurement and IBS signal analysis with acoustic densitometry with a 7.5-MHz...

Electrospinning has been used for the fabrication of extracellular matrix (ECM)-mimicking fibrous scaffolds for several decades. Electrospun fibrous scaffolds provide nanoscale/microscale fibrous structures with interconnecting pores, resembling natural ECM in tissues, and showing a high potential to facilitate the formation of artificial functional tissues. In this review, we summarize the fun...

Although craniofacial bone is the second common site of fibrous dysplasia involvement, it is rarely found in the paranasal sinus. Among fibrous dysplasia of the head and neck, the maxilla and mandible are the most frequent sites to be involved. Fibrous dysplasia becomes dormant in adolescence and early adult life and is more common in female. It is one of the fibrous osseous lesions and should ...

Clinical and experimental studies indicate that hypertension accelerates the development of arteriosclerosis. Morphological and chemical studies of the distended rat thoracic aorta were undertaken to define the structural and compositional alterations of the media which accompany hypertension and to relate these changes to increases in calculated medial stress. An 8-week period of hypertension ...