Neoplasm

It is vital to differentiate dilated VR spaces from other cerebral pathologies such as ventricular diverticulae, cystic neoplasms, periventricular leukomalacia, parasitic cysts, cystic infarction, and mucopolysaccharidoses. Cystic neoplasms do not manifest pure CSF intensity. Parasitic cysts like neurocysticercosis usually have a small scolex with enhancing cyst walls. Patients with mucopolysaccharidoses have certain characteristic…

Greece has the fifth highest standardized mortality ratio for diseases of the circulatory system after Slovakia (485.4), Hungary (476.2), Czech Republic (396.4) and Poland (363.0) (OECD 2009). The second major cause of death is cancer. Malignant neoplasms account for 26.4% of mortality. On the other hand, tuberculosis cases have dropped significantly and have stabilized at a low level. Deaths from accidents have also been decreasing steadily although they remain the primary source of premature…

What is cancer? Every day billions of mutations occur in human cells, but some of them make the cell cancerous. Cancer, one of the leading cause of death in the world, is a disease caused by occurring mutation in many genes of a cell, not just one gene, which changes underlying principles of the cell molecular action, such as the cell cycle, growth trend, signaling, and its specific death time.(2) The most crucial characteristic of a cancer cell is the excessive, uncontrolled growth cycle…

Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women in the United States. In 2008, approximately 184,450 patients were estimated to be diagnosed with invasive cancer, and an estimated 40,930 were estimated to die of this disease. Furthermore, over 50,000 female carcinoma in situ breast cases would have been diagnosed. The etiology of breast cancer is poorly understood with multiple genetic and environmental factors involved in the initiation and…

Soft tissue giant cell tumor (GCT-ST) of low malignant potential is an uncommon neoplasm, considered the soft tissue counterpart of giant cell tumor of bone. The age range of patients with primary GCT of soft tissue is 1-86 yrs with female predominance of 3:2 GCT- ST manly affects young to middle – age adults & presents as a painless growing mass mainly located in the lower extremities and hunk (2,3,4,5). The majority of these tumors is located superficially (in subcutaneous tissue) and occur in…

The other less common subtypes include: Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm with an associated invasive carcinoma, mucinous cystic neoplasms with an associated invasive carcinoma, solid-pseudopapillary neoplasms, acinar cell carcinoma, pancreatoblastoma, and serous cystadenocarcinoma5. These other malignant pancreatic cancers only account for 1-2 percent of all pancreatic cancers 5. As stated…

Facts About Cancer Pancreatic cancer is the fourth most common kind of cancers. Forty six thousand four hundred twenty people are diagnosed every year and Thirty nine thousand five hundred ninety people die every year. Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells that are able to avoid tissue. Cancer can spread throughout the body by using the blood and lymph node systems. There isn’t just one type of cancer, but over 100 different types of cancer. Most forms of cancer are named after where the…

KUB shows degenerative joint disease in the L4-5 apophyseal joints without significant interval change, and spot film of the right upper quadrant fails to reveal radiopaque biliary calculi. The gallbladder concentrates telepaque and is slightly enlarged, with erect compression spot films failing to show biliary calculi although the degree of concentration of the contrast and difficulty in separating the gallbladder from gas shadows leaves something to be desired. The gallbladder does contract…

modalities and abilities we normally think of as only being in animals,” 2. Describe the response of plants to the deposition of insect egg Once a plant has detected an insect, laying their eggs on their leaves the plant will sprout tumor like neoplasms in order to knock the eggs of the leaves. Another example of plant species defending their selves from Insects laying eggs on them, for instance, When the female cabbage butterfly lays…

Parkinson’s disease is defined as a, “progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects movement” (Huether & McCance, 2012). Parkinson’s can be further divided among two categories, which include primary and secondary. Primary Parkinson’s is more common among men and usually is seen to begin after 40 years of age with an increasing risk after 60 years of age. The cause of primary Parkinson’s is still unknown, but several genes have been identified as contributing factors in addition to…