... diaphragm ofthe floor ofthe mouth They arise from the mylohyoid line ofthe inner surface ofthe mandible and insert on the body ofthe hyoid bone into the median raphe The nerve to the mylohyoid, ... composed of stratified squamous epithelium It has a thickness of 0.04–0.4 mm The palms ofthe hands and the soles ofthe feet are thicker than the skin of other areas ofthe human body, such as the ... nodes ofthe submental triangle receive lymph from the skin ofthe chin, the lower lip, the floor ofthe mouth, and the tip ofthe tongue They send lymph to the submandibular and jugular chains of...
... monitoring the energy deposition and the therapeutic effect, and also controlling the US exposure based on the feedback digital data from the ultrasonograms in the process of HIFU treatment The therapeutic ... leading the coagulation necrosis ofthe whole target regions During the therapeutic process, real-time estimation ofthe therapeutic effect was carried out by the computer system through the graphic ... transducer and the skin in order to well locate the target region The real-time US imaging device was used to locate the head of pancreas as the pre-designed target region The spatial volumes ofthe target...
... whom the mass was located in the portion of body or tail ofthe pancreas For tumors of SPT located in the neck and body ofthe pancreas, resection ofthe midportion ofthe pancreas and the mass ... and the level of detections were all within normal limits The median diameter ofthe lesions was 8.0 cm (range 4-20) Nine patients had their tumors within the head, in the body and in the tail of ... 311 Fig The CT scan indicated the typical internal or capsular calcification in the SPT Once the diagnosis of SPT is made, surgery is the first choice of treatment, since other adjuvant therapies,...
... species ofthe family Nototheniidae have one major and one minor Hb (Hb and Hb 2, 95% and 5% ofthe total, respectively) [2, 4,14] The two Hbs have the b-chain in common, with the exception of those ... acuticeps and C mawsoni) However, the lack of a clear relationship with the Hb sequences of other nototheniid species suggests that in this case the evolution ofthe oxygen-transport system has ... Fishes ofthe Southern Ocean Smith Institute of Ichthyology, South Africa Balushkin, A.V (1992) Classification, phylogenetic relationships, and origins ofthe families ofthe suborder Notothenioidei...
... al 2005a) is therefore common among the social Hymenoptera In these species, the process of testis degeneration begins after the migration ofthe spermatozoa to the seminal vesicles The same process ... Histology ofthe male reproductive system of Polistes vesicolor D-E Photomicrograph ofthe spermatozoa and ofthe nucleus stained with DAPI, respectively A Longitudinal section from the region ofthe ... Lino-Neto et al 2008a) The observation of only mature cells at the final stage ofthe spermiogenesis and spermatozoa in the testes of adult P v versicolor, as well as in other species of Polistes (Dirks...
... otherwise noted, are in terms ofthe difference from the baseline scenario Therefore familiarity with this scenario allows the reader to better judge the magnitude ofthe economic impacts ofthe ... simple example of opportunity cost is choosing between buying a book or a movie ticket The choice of one implies the loss ofthe other: the opportunity cost In the case of our analysis, the opportunity ... match the sum ofthe previous simulations due to the feedbacks in the model Each ofthe previous simulations was run independently while here they are interacting with and influencing each other The...
... than 2% ofthe cases Most ofthe exocrine tumors were adenocarcinomas not otherwise specified with a 5-year relative survival rate of only 2% The most frequent histologic types of cancers ofthe ... (0.2%) were in the Islets of Langerhans and pancreatic duct (0.6%) The remaining, nearly 30% ofthe cancers, were not assigned to a specific pancreatic region Cancers ofthe head ofthe pancreas ... Cancers ofthe pancreas rank at or near the bottom ofthe list of all cancers in relation to patient survival following diagnosis For the pancreatic cancers that arose from the exocrine pancreas, the...
... conditions of {sn}, {rn}{an}, g, they proved that {xn} converges strongly to an element ofthe set of variational inequality problem and the set of a common fixed point of a finite family of nonexpansive ... [11-16]) The set ofthe solution of (1.4) is denoted by V I(H, B, M) Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of Banach space X Let {Tn }∞ be an infin=1 nite family of nonexpansive mappings of C ... where z = PF (I -(A - gf))z This completes the proof By means of our main result, we have the following results in the framework of Hilbert space To prove these results, we need definition and lemma...
... buffalo is similar to the composition in cattle One ofthe unique features to emerge from the study ofthe immune system of cattle is the presence of two complex subpopulations of γδ T cells, one ... (~20-40%) of young animals The proportion of WC1+ cells decreases with age The frequency of WC1+ cells is low in lymphoid tissues (~ 5-10%) of young and adult animals The frequency of these two ... specificity of many ofthe mAbs has been validated by studies performed as part of international workshops held over the past few years [15,16,21] We have hypothesized that some ofthe mAb developed...
... cell groups in the tissues ofthe reproductive tubules Based on the distribution ofthe lectins, DBA, SBA, isolectin B4, WGA, PNA and UEA-I, these cells may be active in the digestion of absorbed ... Additionally, the heterogeneity ofthe lectin staining patterns in the reproductive tubules ofthe adult thoroughbred horse suggests that the Histochemical Detection of Glycoconjugates in the Male ... composition of each cell type is different The functional role of each lectin needs further study Taken together, these results suggest that covering epithelia have a specific glycoprotein in the reproductive...
... lesions, these are often low grade malignancies as in the case of SPT or true carcinomas as in the case of cystic changes in ductal adenocarcinoma [1] Cystic feature of solid tumor of pancreas ... contributed to treatment of patients, collection of data, review of results and manuscript, and approval ofthe final draft Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... findings did not have history of pancreatitis This patient showed the largest cyst and was referred to our center after external drainage ofthe cyst CA19-9 level ofthe cystic fluid was 24000 IU/ml...
... Ct scan ofthe pancreas (The arrow marks the enlarged pancreatic caput) Ambe et al World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2011, 9:85 http://www.wjso.com/content/9/1/85 Page ofThe diagnosis of pancreatic ... characteristics of 5000 cases of cancer ofthe pancreas J Surg Oncol 1973, 5:335-358 Zhang H, Jensen MH, Farnell MB, Smyrk TC, Zhang L: Primary Leiomyosarcoma ofthe Pancreas: Study of Cases and Review of ... http://www.wjso.com/content/9/1/85 Page of Authors’ contributions PA, CK and SH did the literature research, PA wrote the article, SS did the pathology, LK edited the article All the authors reviewed and approved the end version...
... (B) There was a small number of stromal invasive features in the bottom ofthe solid part of this cystic tumor (C) Near the carcinoma in situ, OGCs were distributed diffusely in the stroma ofthe ... dysplasia, reaching the degree of a carcinoma in situ The walls ofthe cysts did not display an Figure Abdominal CT showing the large cystic tumor in the upper left quadrant ofthe abdomen A computed ... Invasion to another organ was seen only in our case, in which the tumor invaded to the stomach With the exception ofthe two male cases, the patients had experienced favorable courses of their disease...
... present the series of cystic intraductal tumours observed by the Surgical Clinic ofthe Brescia University, with the aim to underline the clinical problems they set, related both to the therapeutic ... resected, 13 of them with a definitive pathological diagnosis of intraductal papillary mucinous tumor; starting from 2004, on the basis ofthe literature indications, the cases of IPMN ofthe secondary ... the follow-up was almost entirely founded on the cholangio-MRI, to reduce exposure ofthe patient to radiations Results The relative incidence ofthe IPMNs in the pancreatic surgical series of...
... curative resection of an ACC Comparison ofthe histology ofthe biopsy and the surgical specimen showed large differences, because after chemotherapy there were necrotic areas, and the vital tumor ... chemotherapy was given to the patient Altogether, the patient was treated with cycles of 5-FU monotherapy (220 mg/m2/d); treatment occurred over eight weeks with a break of two weeks per cycle There ... the size ofthe tumor The slightly hyperintense area in the head ofthe pancreas had diameters of barely 2.4 × 1.1 cm, with a small (1.0 cm) residual precaval lymph node (Figure 4) There had...
... and CA19-9 At laparotomy there was a black polycystic, retroperitoneal tumor extending from coeliac axis to the origin ofthe head of pancreas The tumor infiltrated the transverse mesocolon, ... mass consisted of lymphatic and blood vessels with polycystic spaces There was infiltration ofthe stroma by lymphocytes The definitive histological diagnosis was hemolymphangioma ofthe pancreas ... congenital malformation ofthe vascular system The formation of this tumor may be explained by obstruction ofthe venolymphatic communication between dysembrioplastic vascular tissue and the systemic circulation[5]...
... 80% ofthe prescribed dose Second, our data suggests that relative motion oftheduodenum is quite distinct from the remainder ofthe small bowel Percent volumes oftheduodenum receiving 80% of ... inserting into the third and fourth portions ofthe duodenum[ 7] These attachments between duodenum and surrounding structures more directly limit motion oftheduodenum than the rest ofthe small ... gall bladder (by the common bile duct) Additionally, near the level ofthe pancreas, theduodenum is fixed by the ligament of Treitz, a suspensory muscle arising from the stems of celiac and superior...
... opening ofthe lesser sac with the stomach (S) lifted upwards Note the complete rupture ofthe pancreas (PH: head ofthe pancreas; PT: tail ofthe pancreas) The hematoma (H) accompanying the injury ... single stitches, the transpancreatic stitches were anchored to the ventral part ofthe jejunum and this resulted in “sandwiching” ofthe pancreas within the jejunal wall Finally, the lesser sac ... tail ofthe pancreas were mobilized away from the mesenteric and splenic vein A bruised slice of pancreas (5 mm) was resected at the tail ofthe pancreas in order to have vital tissue for the...
... (Figure 3) The mobilization ofthe pancreas started at the reflexion ofthe superior leaf ofthe transverse mesocolon on the pancreas The plane at the inferior border ofthe body ofthe pancreas ... level ofthe umbilicus, a 10 mm trocar in the left upper quadrant ofthe abdomen on the anterior axillary line, a 10 mm trocar in the subxiphoid region, a mm trocar in the left hypochondrium on the ... at about the level ofthe umbilicus, a 10 mm-trocar in the left upper quadrant ofthe abdomen on the anterior axillary line, a 10 mm-trocar in the subxiphoid region, a mm-trocar in the left hypochondrium...