Search results for "lesion"

Racial disparity and prognosis in patients with mouth and oropharynx cancer in Brazil.

2022

Oral and oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Populations in situations of social vulnerability tend to have higher incidences of cancer, a higher proportion of late diagnosis, greater difficulties in accessing health services, and, consequently, worse prognosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between race/skin color and OPC prognosis in Brazil. This is a cross-sectional epidemiological study using OPC data from the National Cancer Institute between the years 2000 and 2019. The selected variables were: gender, race/skin color, age, education, smoking and alcohol consumption, stage of the disease and disease status at …

Osservazioni sul risarcimento del danno morale nella prospettiva europea

2015

According to a recent sequence of judgments by the Italian ‘Corte di Cassazione’, “non-material damage” must be interpreted as also encompassing the mental distress caused by injury, inasmuch as this kind of loss could be seen as a violation of human dignity, which is a legal interest protected by both art. 2 of the Italian Constitution and art. 1 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. The essay, after having reconstructed the recent Italian case law following the 2008 judgments of the ‘Sezioni Unite’ of the ‘Corte di Cassazione’, enquires into what – in the European perspective – can be viewed as compensable “non-material damage”. In particular, the Author looks at two main issues: 1) th…

Preparaciones de base líquida vs. citología convencional: adecuación de las muestras y coincidencia de diagnóstico en lesiones orales

2005

Objetivo: Comparar la efectividad de la muestra y la coincidencia de diagnostico entre preparaciones de base liquida y frotis convencionales en lesiones orales, y probar la viabilidad de la prueba inmuno-citoquimica en preparaciones de base liquida de lesiones de carcinoma oral. Material y Metodos: Se obtuvieron muestras de 44 pacientes. Primeramente se prepararon frotis convencionales, usando un dispositivo cytobrush. A continuacion se sumergio el cepillo que contenia el material residual en un liquido conservante. La muestra en el mismo fue procesada de acuerdo con las indicaciones del fabricante (AutoCyte, Inc. Elon College, North Carolina, USA). Se tineron preparaciones de ambas tecnica…

Ruolo dell’ecografia con mezzo di contrasto nella caratterizzazione delle lesioni focali epatiche riscontrate incidentalmente

2008

Ruolo dell’ecografia con mezzo di contrasto nella caratterizzazione delle lesioni focali epatiche scoperte incidentalmente

2007

Applicazione dei mezzi di contrasto ecografici nelle lesioni focali del fegato steatosico, nelle lesioni epatiche rare e nelle pseudolesioni del fega…

2007

Nonostante i continui progressi tecnologici, l’ecografia convenzionale in scala di grigi non presenta elevata specificita nella caratterizzazione delle lesioni focali epatiche [1]. Inoltre, nella pratica clinica, il non infrequente riscontro di alterazioni diffuse del parenchima epatico, come la steatosi, puo rendere ancora piu difficoltosa una corretta diagnosi [2]. In particolare l’infiltrazione adiposa del fegato,dovuta all’accumulo di trigliceridi sotto forma di vacuoli di differenti dimensioni all’interno degli epatociti, la cui incidenza, secondo alcuni studi autoptici, varia dal 6 all’11%, e responsabile di un’ alterazione diffusa dell’ecogenicita del parenchima epatico che assume un…

Cognitive reserve and cognitive performance of patients with focal frontal lesions

2017

The Cognitive reserve (CR) hypothesis was put forward to account for the variability in cognitive performance of patients with similar degrees of brain pathology. Compensatory neural activity within the frontal lobes has often been associated with CR. For the first time we investigated the independent effects of two CR proxies, education and NART IQ, on measures of executive function, fluid intelligence, speed of information processing, verbal short term memory (vSTM), naming, and perception in a sample of 86 patients with focal, unilateral frontal lesions and 142 healthy controls. We fitted multiple linear regression models for each of the cognitive measures and found that only NART IQ pre…

New Technique in Tendon Sport Recovery. Percutaneous Electrolysis Intratissue (EPI®)

2013

Based on the literature and clinical experience we know that the technique of percutaneous electrolysis intratissue (EPI ® ) has positive effects on the recovery of human tendinopathies. The application of the technique, together with the completion of eccentric exercise, give benefits leading to anatomical and functional recovery in the tendon that can be appreciated by ultrasound using the scale of "Victorian Institute of Sport Assessment-patellar tendon" (VISA-P). Due to clinical knowledge, damage to tendon is accompanied by increase in oxidative stress, cell death and inflammation at the damaged area. The EPI ® technique produced a galvanic current inside the tendon, with an acupuncture…

Histopathologic analysis of gingival lesions : a 20-year retrospective study at one academic dental center

2018

Background The gingiva is part of the periodontium supporting structures surrounding the teeth and commonly involved in gingival and periodontal conditions. Assessing the distribution of gingival lesions is important for evaluating the prevalence of periodontal disease in the population to optimize the oral health care services. The purpose of this study is to report the frequency and distribution of gingival lesions biopsied from 1996-2016. Material and methods This cross-sectional retrospective study retrieved data from all gingival lesions biopsied from 1996-2016 and sent to the King Abdulaziz University Dental Hospital oral pathology laboratory. Histologic sections were reviewed in a bl…

A Reassessment of the Therapeutic Potential of a Dopamine Receptor 2 Agonist (D2-AG) in Endometriosis by Comparison against a Standardized Antiangiog…

2021

Dopamine receptor 2 agonists (D2-ags) have been shown to reduce the size of tumors by targeting aberrant angiogenesis in pathological tissue. Because of this, the use of a D2-ag was inferred for endometriosis treatment. When assayed in mouse models however, D2-ags have been shown to cause a shift of the immature vessels towards a more mature phenotype but not a significant reduction in the amount of vascularization and size of lesions. These has raised concerns on whether the antiangiogenic effects of these compounds confer a therapeutic value for endometriosis. In the belief that antiangiogenic effects of D2-ags in endometriosis were masked due to non-optimal timing of pharmacological inte…