Objective To analyze the clinical and pathological features of follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (FVPTC).Methods Clinical data of 131 FVPTC patients diagnosed and treated between January 2006 and June 2012 were retrospectively analyzed.Results Of the 131 FVPTC patients,the median age at diagnosis was 45 years and 74.0％ patients were female.Pathologically 29％ (38 patients) of the FVPTC patients were encapsulated,and 71％ (93 patients) were nonencapsulated.Compared with classical papillary thyroid carcinoma (CPTC),FVPTC patients were more likely to have lower ultrasound diagnostic accuracy rate,frozen section accuracy rate,tumor muhicentricity,tumor bilaterality,lymph node metastasis,lateral lymph node metastasis rate,N staging,TNM stage,ATA risk and higher M staging and concomitant chronic thyroiditis rate (all P ＜ 0.05).Moreover,there were significant differences between nonencapsulated and encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma in tumor size,TSH level,ultrasound diagnostic accuracy rate,extrathyroid invasion,T staging,lymph node metastasis,N staging,TNM staging,ATA risk and recurrence rate (all P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions Compared with CPTC,FVPTC have different clinical and biological features.It's necessary for different management strategies for different FVPTC patients.

Data analysis poses a significant challenge to the large-scale proteomics studies. Based on the structured and controlled vocabularies-Gene Ontology (GO), and the GO annotation from related databases, a strategy composed of several programs and local databases is developed to identify the functional distribution and the significantly enriched functional categories of the proteomic expression profile. It would be helpful for understanding the overall functions of these identified proteins and supply the fundamental information for further bioinformatics exploration. This strategy has been successfully used in the Human Fetal Liver (HFL) proteomic research, which is available online at http://www.hupo.org.cn/GOfact/.

Objective To study the CT findings of abdominal tuberculosis in patients with AIDS.Methods CT imaging features of abdominal tuberculosis in 33 patients with AIDS were retrospectively analyzed. Results Abdominal lymph adenopathy were observed in 23 cases (69. 7%, 23/33 ).Hepatosplenomegaly were observed in 10 cases (30. 3%, 10/33). Multiple low density nodes in spleen were observed in 14 cases(42. 4%, 14/33)including 9 cases of diffuse, low density nodes (27. 3% ,9/33). Low density lesions in liver were observed in 7 cases (21.2%, 7/33 ) including a case of tuberculous abscess (3.0%, 1/33 ) . Peritoneum and epiploon involvements were found in 5 cases ( 15.2%, 5/33 ) with associated ascites in 2 cases ( 6. 1%, 2/33 ) . Thickening of intestines wall were observed in 4 cases ( 12. 1% ,4/33). Destruction of lumbar vertebra with cold abscess was observed in 1 case (3.0% ,1/33).Abscess in psoas was observed in 1 case (3.0%, 1/33). Conclusion Abdominal tuberculosis in patients with AIDS usually involves multiple organs in the abdomen. CT has an important role in the detection and following up examination of these lesions.