To study the microstructure characteristics and clinical significance of olfactory cistern,we dissected the olfactory cisterns of 15 adult cadeveric heads under an operating microscope. The results showed that olfactory cistern was situated in the shallow part of the olfactory sulcus, which separated the gyrus rectus from the orbital gyrus. The cistern was triangular in shape in all coronal sections. The anterior portion of the cistern encased the olfactory bulbs, high and broad. The posterior portion of the cistern, which was also broad, was on the medial superior side of internal carotid artery. There were openings in the lower aspects of the posterior portions of 53 4% of the cisterns. The middle portion, which made up more than half length of the cistern, became narrower and narrower as it extended backwards. Most cisterns were spacious, in which there were less fiber trabeculae and bands between olfactory nerves and cistern walls. 23% of the cisterns were narrow and small, with their walls encasing the nerves tightly. The blood supply of the olfactory nerve was mainly from several slender arteries. But the arterial supply was segmental in some cisterns. In conclusion, most olfactory cisterns were spacious and short of fibril connections. The arterial supply of most olfactory nerves was relatively independent. Olfactory tract could be separated from the walls of the cisterns for 1-2cm in operation. But the tracts could not be separated easily in about 1/4 cases, because the originating sites of olfactory arteries were much in front of them or there were abundant fiber connections in the cisterns.

The neural stem cells (NSCs) can migrate into the injured area and differentiate into neurons or oligodendrocytes.Endogenous neurogenesis may potentially be harnessed as a putative therapy for neural injury.But the complex micro-environment due to TBI will be one of the biggest challenges for endogenous NSCs to perform neural regenerations.Exogenous NSCs have been shown to be able to survive in host tissues and regulate microenvironment via paracrine effects.Thus, transplantation of NSCs to assist neural regeneration has become an attractive option.Recently, rapid advances in the stem cell biology have raised appealing possibilities of replacing damaged or lost neural cells by transplantation of in vitro-expanded stem cells and/or their neuronal progeny.

Objective To investigate the role of deoxycholic acid (DCA) in the pathogenesis of Barrett esophagus.Methods Normal human esophageal mucosal epithelial cells were cultured in vitro with defined keratinocyte serum-free media (D-KSFM).The cultured cells were treated with different concentrations of DCA and specific p38 mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) inhibitor. The expression of p38,phosphorylated p38 (p-p38) and caudal-related homeodomain transcription 2 (CDX2) at protein level were assessed by Western blot.The correlation between p-p38 and CDX2 was analyzed.The data were analyzed by one way ANOVA and LSD test.Results After being cultured with DCA for 24 h,the expression of p-p38 and CDX2 increased along with the increasing of DCA concentration.Compared with the control group (p-p38 was 13.7％ ± 1.0％ and CDX2 protein was 0),the difference was statistically significant (P＜ 0.05).When DCA was at 500 μmol/L,the expression of p-p38 and CDX2 reached the highest level (44.0％ ± 1.7％ and 8.59± 1.25).After pretreated with SB203580 for two hours and then 500 μmol/L DCA was added into cell culture,both expression level of p-p38 and CDX2 decreased compared with 500μmol/L DCA group (p-p38:28.3％ ±2.2％ vs50.5％±9.5％,CDX2:0.94±0.13 vs 2.31±0.41) after 24 h.Conclusions DCA can induce the expression of CDX2 in normal human esophageal mucosal epithelial cells,which is related with the activation of p38.The phosphorylation of p38 maybe involved in the pathogenesis of Barrett esophagus.

By using a micro-sensor through an endoscope,the esophageal variceal pressure in 94 patients with cirrhosis was measured.The results of the measurement were as follow:in 5 cases with Ⅱ-degree,it was 2.68?0.18 kPa,varices in 26 cases with Ⅲ-degree,it was 2.90?0.23 kPa,while in 63 cases of Ⅳ-degree varices,it was 3.51?0.33 kPa.The results suggested that there was a significant correlation between the pressure of esophageal varices with the degree of varices (r=0.313,P=0.01).The method seemed to be a valuable non-invading technic for evaluating the degree of varices.

Objective To study the significance of pain symptoms and physical signs to diagnosis of deeply infiltrating endometriosis (DIE).Methods Totally 500 patients with laparoscopic diagnosis of endometriosis were studied retrospectively and divided into two groups depending on the existance of DIE.The pain symptoms and gynecological physical signs were recorded detail,and the correlation with diagnose of DIE were analyzed.Results (1) The significance of pain symptoms:the sensitivity,specificity,positive predictive value (PPV),negative predictive value (NPV) and OR,95％ CI of each pain symptom were:dysmenorrhae (90.5％,37.2％,59.6％,79.3％,5.66,3.46-9.28),chronic pelvic pain (35.2％,82.6％,67.4％,55.4％,2.58,1.70-3.91),dyspareunia (46.2％,80.6％,70.7％,59.6％,3.56,2.39-5.32),dyschezia (51.0％,73.7％,66.5％,59.5％,2.91,2.00-4.24),respectively.(2) Pelvic physical examination:the sensitivity,specificity,PPV and NPV of each physical sign were:fixed uterine:73.6％,71.2％,79.5％,64.0％; fixed ovarian cyst:94.1％,20.3％,63.3％,70.0％; uterosacral ligaments nodule:47.1％,97.5％,96.6％,54.9％; uterosacral ligaments nodule with tenderness:81.7％,75.0％,83.1％,73.2％; rectovaginal septum nodule:32.2％,100.0％,100.0％,49.4％; rectovaginal septum nodule with tenderness:32.2％,100.0％,100.0％,49.4％; blue nodule in posterior vaginal forni:14.9％,100.0％,100.0％,43.7％.Conclusions In the symptoms,the dysmenorrheal has the highest sensitivity and NPV for the diagnosis.And chronic pelvic pain has the highest specificity,and dysparaunia has the highest PPV for the diagnosis.In pelvic vaginal examination,fixed uterine,fixed ovarian cyst and the nodule on uretosarcal ligment and rectovaginal septum with tenderness,the blue lesion on posterior fornix have the strong significance for DIE.So record the symptom detail and careful digital vaginal examination,especially the vaginal-recto-abdominal examination could improve the diagnosis DIE obviously before procedure.

This article reports on 217 patients with cirrhosis before sclerotherapy. It was observed that there was relationship between the 10 indexes and bleeding, i.e. the diameter of portal vein in bleeding group 1.60?0.29 cm, portal venous flow 986.5?117.8 ml/min, free portal pressure 3.76?0.28 kPa, the esophageal variceal pressure 3.56?0.25 kPa. In the patients with no bleeding, the value were 1.40?0.16 cm, 831.7?53.6 ml/min, 2.79?0.33 kPa, and 2.75?0.31 kPa, respectively. Differences between two groups were significant (P

Objective To study the relationship between the clinic-pathological features and pain symptoms in patients with endometriotic cyst(EM).Methods The medical data of symptoms,laparoscopy and pathology examination in 416 patients with endometriosis were studied retrospectively.All cases were divided into two groups on the existence of ovarian endometrioma,including 338 patients in cyst group and 78 cases in non-cyst group.The relationship between clinical symptoms and location and type of endometrioma was studied.Results(1)Serum CA125 level:the level of CA125 were(61 ± 39)kU/L in cyst group(28 ± 24)kU/L in non-cyst group,which reached statistical difference(P ＜ 0.01).(2)Pathological features:among 338 cases,34.0％ of cyst were on left side(115/338),26.3％ were right side(89/338),and 39.6％ were on both side(134/338).And 95.8％(324/338)of cases were combined with the other type of endometriosis,which were 48.5％(164/338)with peritoneal endometriosis,47.3％(160/338)with deep infiltrating endometriosis(DIE).In cystic patients,the incidences of endometriosis lesion were 13.9％(47/338)on the uterine surface,38.5％(130/338)on obstruction of cul-de sac,40.5％ (137/338)on utero-sacral ligament of DIE,which were significantly higher than 5.1％,(4/78),9.0％ (7/78)and 28.2％(22/78)in noncyst group.(3)Pain symptom:the incidence and degree of dysmenorrhea and dyschezia had no statistical difference between two groups(P ＞ 0.05),and the incidence of chronic pelvic pain(CPP)of 24.6％(83/338)and dyspareunia of 29.9％(101/338)in the cyst group were significantly lower than 35.9％(28/78)and 44.9％(35/78)in non-cyst group(P ＜ 0.05).The incidence of dysmenorrheal was 85.1％(114/134)in cases with bilateral cyst,which was higher than 74.0％(151/204)in cases with single cyst.The incidence of dysmenorrheal and dyschezia in moderatesevere adhesion was 89.0％(138/155)and 18.7％(29/155),which was significantly higher than 68.8％ (126/183)and 8.2％(15/183)in mild adhesion.In the patients cyst existed with DIE,the risk of dysmenorrheal,CPP,dyspareunia,and dyschezia were obviously raised(OR respectively was 5.17,3.01,3.05,2.75).Conclusions The endometriotic cyst often co-exists with other type of endometriotic lesions.Ovarian endometrioma was associated with lesion localized on uterine surface,cul-de-sac,sacrum ligament.The risk of all the pain symptoms would be raised when the endometriotic cyst co-exit with the DIE lesions.So the treatment for DIE lesions was as same important as the endometriotic lesions in order to relieve pain symptoms and delay the relapse.

Objective To investigate clinical outcome of laparoendoscopic single-site compared with traditional three-port in treatment of ovarian cystectomy.Method From February 2012 to June 2013,54 patients with ovarian cyst were randomized to the single-site group (n =24) or the three-port group (n =30) in Peking Union Medical College Hospital.The outcome of laparoscopic single-site and three-port ovarian cystectomy were evaluated.Operation time,blood loss,surgical complications,postoperative pain score,postoperative analgesic requirements,length of hospital stay,cosmetic satisfaction score,postoperative recovery and total cost were compared between both groups.Results No difference was found in blood loss,length of hospital stay,complications and total cost between the two groups(P ＞ 0.05).Operation time was (31-± 10) minute in three-port group and (40 ± 19) minute in single-site group.Visual analogue pain score was 5.6 ± 1.7 in three-port group and 2.7 ± 1.4 in single-site group,cosmetic satisfaction score was 92.5 ± 2.5 in three-port group and 97.4 ± 1.5 in single-site group.Those clinical parameter reached statistical difference (all P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion Laparoendoscopic single site surgery approach is feasible and safe to treat benign ovarian cyst disease.And it offers decreased pain and offer improved cosmesis.

Objective To explore the operation skills of laparoendoscopic single site surgery ( LESS) of total hysterectomy , to expand the application of LESS in the field of in gynecologic surgery . Methods A total of 23 cases of total hysterectomy were completed under laparoendoscopic single site surgery in Peking Union Medical College Hospital from January 2012 to August 2013, applying with combination of the traditional laparoscopic and special LESS apparatuses , intelligent electronic coagulation and excision device and the self-fixed absorbable sutures ( V-LOC).The datas of the patients during the operations and the follow-up were recorded and analyzed Results Twenty-three cases LESS-TH are accomplished.The weight of uterus was (230+38) g.The operation time was (73+22) minutes, with the intraoperative blood loss (99 ±53) ml.The postoperative intestinal function recovery time was (13 +4) hours, and postoperative hospitalized time was ( 1.8 ±0.6 ) days, with the postoperative pain visual analogue scale 3.9 ±1.6.There were no complications reported during intraoperative and postoperative time.All of our patients was finished the follow-up from 14 d to 2 months.As usual, vaginal discharge is normal, wound healed well, most of the wounds healing (19/23) hidden in umbillicus, no obvious scar, vaginal stub wound healed well Conclusions ( 1 ) LESS can accomplish total hysterectomy of uterus of gestational age less than 8 weeks safely and effectively .( 2 ) Combination of traditional laparoscopic and special LESS appatatuses , the use of intelligent energy devices and V-LOC to suture vaginal stub could make the total hysterectomy by LESS much easier and safer .

Objective To explore how to reduce the incidence of pelvic mass after hysterectomy,and to evaluate clinical characteristics and the risks.Methods A retrospective study was carried out in 85 patients who returned for surgery due to a pelvic mass after prior hysterectomy for benign disease at Peking Union Medical College Hospital from January 2011 to June 2016.Results The majority of pelvic masses arising after hysterectomy and requiring surgery were benign (74％,63/85),while 19％ (16/85) were malignant and 7％ (6/85) were borderline.The most common type was ovarian endometrioma (24％,20/85) which usually occurs within the 5 years (16 cases),however,ovarian tumors (18 cases) were more likely to occur ≥10 years after hysterectomy.Characteristics associated with significantly increased likelihood of ovarian endometrioma were mainly ascribed to younger age [(47±5) years old],prior presence of endometriosis or adenomyosis (65％,13/20) and shorter time to pelvic mass onset [(3 ±3) years],as opposed to ovarian tumors (all P＜0.01).Additionally,higher number of prior abdominal surgeries significantly intensified the risk (RR=9.410,95％ CI:1.099-80.564,P=0.041).Conclusions The occurrence of pelvic mass after hysterectomy is tightly related to prior histologic findings,and particularly for ovarian endometrioma.Higher number of prior abdominal surgery will exacerbated the risk.It is effective to prevent the pelvic mass in women after hysterectomy if treat patients for the purpose of the risk factors.