scholarly journals Pathological findings following experimental challenge with Burkholderia pseudomallei (equine melioidosis)

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (S56) ◽  
pp. 38-39
Keyword(s):  
Burkholderia Pseudomallei ◽  
Pathological Findings ◽  
Experimental Challenge

Improving diagnosis of acute appendicitis with atypical findings by Tc-99m HMPAO leukocyte scan

2002 ◽  
Vol 41 (01) ◽  
pp. 37-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Shung-Shung ◽  
S. Yu-Chien ◽  
Y. Mei-Due ◽  
W. Hwei-Chung ◽  
A. Kao
Keyword(s):  
Acute Appendicitis ◽  
False Positive ◽  
False Positive Rate ◽  
Accurate Method ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Pathological Findings ◽  
Lower Quadrant ◽  
Predictive Values ◽  
Positive Rate

Summary Aim: Even with careful observation, the overall false-positive rate of laparotomy remains 10-15% when acute appendicitis was suspected. Therefore, the clinical efficacy of Tc-99m HMPAO labeled leukocyte (TC-WBC) scan for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in patients presenting with atypical clinical findings is assessed. Patients and Methods: Eighty patients presenting with acute abdominal pain and possible acute appendicitis but atypical findings were included in this study. After intravenous injection of TC-WBC, serial anterior abdominal/pelvic images at 30, 60, 120 and 240 min with 800k counts were obtained with a gamma camera. Any abnormal localization of radioactivity in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen, equal to or greater than bone marrow activity, was considered as a positive scan. Results: 36 out of 49 patients showing positive TC-WBC scans received appendectomy. They all proved to have positive pathological findings. Five positive TC-WBC were not related to acute appendicitis, because of other pathological lesions. Eight patients were not operated and clinical follow-up after one month revealed no acute abdominal condition. Three of 31 patients with negative TC-WBC scans received appendectomy. They also presented positive pathological findings. The remaining 28 patients did not receive operations and revealed no evidence of appendicitis after at least one month of follow-up. The overall sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive and negative predictive values for TC-WBC scan to diagnose acute appendicitis were 92, 78, 86, 82, and 90%, respectively. Conclusion: TC-WBC scan provides a rapid and highly accurate method for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in patients with equivocal clinical examination. It proved useful in reducing the false-positive rate of laparotomy and shortens the time necessary for clinical observation.

Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumour in Antimesenteric Border of Descending Colon of Children: A Case Report

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
Shahnoor Islam ◽  
AKM Amirul Morshed ◽  
Afiqul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Soft Tissue ◽  
Spindle Cell ◽  
Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumour ◽  
Pathological Findings ◽  
Soft Tissue Lesion ◽  
Soft Tissue Tumours ◽  
Inflammatory Pseudotumour ◽  
Erythrocyte Sedimentation ◽  
Antimesenteric Border

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour (IMT) occurring at intraabdominal sites in children has rarely been described. Inflammatory pseudotumour is a soft tissue lesion that may be confused with a sarcoma. It is abbreviated as IMT. Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour, also known as soft tissue tumours, atypical fibromyxoid tumours, pseudosarcomatous fibromyxoid tumour, plasma cell granuloma, pseudosarcomatous myofibrotic proliferation, post-operative spindle cell nodules. In this paper, we describe a case of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour (IMT) with an unusual constellation of clinical, pathological findings. A 10-year-old girl had an 7-cm intraabdominal mass accompanied by severe anemia, fever, constipation, weight loss, thrombocytosis, elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Laparotomy was performed. The final pathologic diagnosis was IMT. At the most recent follow up (12months) after excision of the tumour, the patient was symptom-free and there was no evidence of tumour recurrence.J. Paediatr. Surg. Bangladesh 3(1): 47-50, 2012 (January)

Pathological Findings in a Rare Mass Stranding of Melon-Headed Whales (Peponocephala electra) in Florida

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory D. Bossart ◽  
Larry Hansen ◽  
Juli D. Goldstein ◽  
David Kilpatrick ◽  
Sarah Bechdel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pathological Findings ◽  
Mass Stranding

Dermoscopical and pathological findings in pseudoxanthoma elasticum-like papillary dermal elastolysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 155 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Santo R. Mercuri ◽  
Enza Cestone ◽  
Pietro Bearzi ◽  
Nathalie Rizzo ◽  
Giovanni Paolino
Keyword(s):  
Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum ◽  
Pathological Findings ◽  
Dermal Elastolysis

Multicentric & hypovascular hepatocellular carcinoma and its relationship to pathological findings.

Kanzo ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 802-809
Author(s):  
Masahiro SUENAGA ◽  
Masumasa HORISAWA ◽  
Akimasa NAKAO ◽  
Toshiaki NONAMI ◽  
Akio HARADA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatocellular Carcinoma ◽  
Pathological Findings
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