Predictive value of gelatin particle agglutination test (GPAT) in early leprosy diagnosis. GPAT using semi-synthetic trisaccharide antigen (manufactured by FUJIREBIO INC, Japan and provided by WHO) has been applied to 680 households contacts of leprosy cases and 350 healthy people living in areas of leprosy. Some interesting conclusions have been made by the authors: - GPAT was positive in 20% of household contacts as compared to only 3.1% of apparently non- contact people. - Among 135 household contacts showing positive GPAT, 17 have developed leprosy (12.6%), while among 884 people with GPAT negative, none (0%) has developed the diseases during the same period of follow-up. - In children, a high titer of antibodies constitutes a valuable indicator of high risk in developing the disease: 63.1% of them developed leprosy while it was only 7.7% in adult. -More interesting, 100% children with GPAT positive at serum dilution of 1:64 or over and whose father/ mother being leprosy patients have developed the disease. - GPAT has a important role in early leprosy diagnosis
Leprosy ; Gelatin ; diagnosis

A case of chondroma of soft tissue of right hand in 23-year old man was reported. The presenting symptom was a slow growing mass, causing mild tenderness. Radiologic examination revealed a well demarked and lobulated calcified mass, was located extraskeletally. Specimen exised from soft tisssue of the hypothenar area of the hand was 5×4×3.5cm sized mass, had gelatinous and gray-whitish appearance. On microscopical examination, the tumor was classified as a chondroma of soft tissue.
Chondroma ; Gelatin ; Hand

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Bone Marrow ; Gelatin ; Humans

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Bone Marrow* ; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular* ; Gelatin*

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Gelatin* ; Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome*

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Gelatin Sponge, Absorbable* ; Hemorrhage* ; Thrombin*

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Bone Matrix* ; DNA* ; Gelatin* ; Osteoblasts*

Fairly specific and important duodenoscopic findings for diagnosing mucinous ductal ectasia (MDE) of pancreas include a prominant ampulla, patulous ampullary orifice and extrusion of mucin through the ampulla. However, we have experienced two cases of mucinous ductal ectasia without these pathognomonic appearance of ampulla. Initially, two cases were admitted for evaluation of pancreatic multicystic lesions, and MDE was incidentally found. Their pancreatographic findings showed normal main duct and cystic dilatation confined to the branch ducts. On gross findings of surgical specimens, a duct dilatation with gelatinous mucin was localized at the uncinate process of the pancreas. Microscopically, the ductal epithelia containing mucin were lined with well-differentiated tall columnar cells showing focal hyperplastic change. We report these unusual cases of MDE with review of the literatures.
Dilatation ; Dilatation, Pathologic* ; Gelatin ; Mucins* ; Pancreas*

A woman who had used a Chinese tea drug, choreito, for treatment of chronic renal diseases over years, experienced lead poisoning with blood lead concentration over 600 μg/l on admission to the hospital. We found that one of the ingredients in choreito, kasseki, was commonly contaminated by lead (30-50 μg/g of kasseki), but this level of lead contamination in the drug had never caused poisoning previously. Our experiment indicates that another ingredient, gelatin, has lead-extracting ability and an adhesive quality on the walls of teapots. Thus, the possible causes of the toxicity seemed to be: (1) the lead in the kasseki, which was extracted by gelatin that had adhered to the wall of the pot, accumulated in large quantities for a long period of time (the patient used the same pot for more than a year without washing); and (2) a large quantity of the accumulated lead was released into the decocted drug day by day and induced the intoxication. In all, 37.2 mg of lead was extracted by 10 extractions of 4% acetic acid from the patient’s pot. Repeated extraction (four times) of lead from the pot which was made by the same manufacturer in the same lot of the patient’s pot with acetic acid, only totally 18.5 μg of lead was detected.Also, it is evident that the intoxication was due to an improper method of decoction, that is, the patient did not prepare the tea according to Japanese pharmsacopoedia. The patient decocted all of the ingredients at the same time.
Lead ; Patients ; g <3> ; Tea ; Gelatin

The author report a huge torcular meningioma, fed only by right occipital artery, which was removed after the preoperative transfemoral catheter embolization with gelfoam plugs to reduce operative blood loss.
Arteries ; Catheters* ; Gelatin Sponge, Absorbable ; Meningioma*