Objective: To investigate the clinical characteristics, microsurgery feasibility and postoperation comprehensive treatment strategy of callosal gliomas, so as to improve the prognosis of patients. Methods: The clinical manifestations, diagnoses, microsurgical approaches, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and prognoses of 82 callosal gliomas patients, who were treated in our hospital during January 1995 and December 2007, were retrospectively analyzed. The optimal surgical approach and resection strategies were chosen preoperativety according to the imaging features of tumors. Resections were performed and the navigational orientation was used during operation in 8 cases, type-B ultrasonic supervision was used in 4 cases, and cavitron ultrasonic surgical aspirator (CUSA) was used in 5 cases. Patients with tumors above grade U underwent chemotherapy (temposide + semustine) and radiotherapy designated individually according to the pathological grades and involvement of gliomas. The follow-up study was conducted by telephone, mail or outpatient department visits. Results: The clinical manifestations of the 82 patients included headache and vomiting (n=44), epilepsy (n=16), mental symptoms (n=12), and mild plasy (n=20). Resections were performed via the longitudinal fissure approach in 44 cases, via the transcortical approach in 24 cases, and via the longitudinal fissure and transcortical combined approach in 5 patients; 7 patients received stereotactic biopsy and 2 patients only received chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Six patients had tumors found in the rostrum of corpus callosum, 36 in the genu of corpus callosum, 30 in the body of corpus callosum, and 10 in the splenium of corpus callosum. Total surgical resection was performed in 45 cases, subtotal in 13 cases, and partial in 15 case. Pathological findings confirmed astrocytoma in 48 cases, oligodendroglioma in 11 cases, ependymoma in 2 cases, and glioblastoma in 19 cases. The follow-up of 61 patients indicated that 89% patients survived for over 1 year, 71% survived for over 2 years, 62% survived for over 3 years and 39% survived for over 5 years, with a median survival time being 47 months and the longest survival time being 140 months. COX regression analysis found that elder age, higher pathology grade and incomplete resection were associated with poor prognosis. Conclusion: The callosal gliomas locate at especial position, and the anatomic characteristic, adjacent structure, blood supply should be fully understood before operation. Accurate surgical approaches assisted by appropriate therapeutic strategies can improve the prognosis of the patients. The longitudinal fissure approach is commonly used. The proficient microsurgical technique combined with navigation and type-B ultrasonic can improve the resection outcome and prognosis of patients.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Dimethylformamide ; adverse effects ; Female ; Humans ; Kidney ; drug effects ; physiopathology ; Lipid Metabolism ; drug effects ; Liver ; drug effects ; physiopathology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Occupational Exposure ; adverse effects ; Young Adult

To investigate the relationship between the diameter of abdominal aortic aneurysm(AAA) and the concentration of elastin, forty five healthy male Wistar rats were selected,5 rats of them were used as normal control, the other 40 rats were randomly divided into 2 groups. A 1 cm segment of the abdominal aorta of the rat was isolated and perfused with pancreatic elastase in the experimental group, and the control group was given normal saline solution. Laparotomy was performed immediately after operation and on the 2, 7, 14 day, the aortas were measured and harvested. Histological studies were carried out to analyze the changes in elastin. The aortic diameter progressed to aneurysmal dimension in the experimental group. Histological study revealed loss of elastin in tunica media of the aorta in the experimental group. Neither macroscopic nor microscopic lesions were found in control group. It is suggested that there is a significant correlation between the aortic diameter and the decreased elastin content.

Background and purpose:Tumor is a disease associated with multi-gene mutation and the abnormal expression of multi-gene expression in many steps through the process of the evolution of cell clone.A lot of oncogenes and anti-oncogenes like p27,survivin,etc.take part in the regulation of the cell cycle directly or indirectly. We studied the expression and correlation of p27 and survivin in NSCLC.Methods:The expression of p27 and survivin was detected in 60 NSCLC and 20 normal pulmonary tissues by the immohistochemical staining.Results: (1)P27 expression in NSCLC was 40.0%,significantly lower than normal pulmonary tissues(P

BACKGROUND: As a common anticoagulant, heparin is widely used in clinic, but it has remarkable side effects such as severe bleeding and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, and it cannot inactivate fibrin-bound thrombin. Annexin Ⅴ derivative (AND) is inosculated with C-terminal of hirudin and annexin Ⅴ, and its anticoagulation and anti-thrombosis effects are compared with those of heparin. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between quantitative effectiveness and time effectiveness of AND on coagulation and thrombosis, and study its reliability. DESIGN: Completely randomized grouping design and controlled study. SETTING: Cardiac Department of amunicipal hospital. MATERIALS: The experiment was conducted at the Animal Laboratory of Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital from July 2000 to April 2001. Totally 32 male New Zealand white rabbits were randomly divided into 4groups, namely, high dosage AND group, low dosage AND group, common heparin group and saline group with 8 in each group. METHODS: Heparin and AND were diluted with saline.①High dosage AND group: 0.7 mg/kg AND was injected intravenously and followed by intravenous dripping of 0.35mg/(kg ·h)for 2 hours.Low dosage AND group: 0.3 mg/kg AND was injected intravenously and followed by intravenous dripping of 0.15 mg/(kg·h) for 2 hours. Heparin group: 75 IU/kg heparin was injected intravenously and followed by intravenous dripping of 37.5 IU/(kg·h) for 2 hours. Saline group: The same volume of saline and medication were used as those in drug groups.② Blood sample was collected from the femoral vein before administration so as to test blood routine, activated partial thromboplastin time(APTT)and prothrombin time (PT) after 15-, 30- and 60-minute administration and 2-hour withdrawal.③Saccule was separated from endothelium of femoral artery to measure blood pressure of distal femoral artery at 15 minutes after administration.Time of pulse pressure equal to 0 mmHg was recorded when the vessel was occluded completely by a thrombus.Finally the injured femoral arteries whose vessel was stripped were collected to measure its length, wet weight and dry weight. ④Observation of AND toxicity and sideeffects:During the experiment,vital signs of the animals were measured,such as blood pressure,heart rate and breath;in addition,bowelhemorrhage was observed and the number of leucocytes was counted after dissection of some of the animals. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:①Effect of AND on blood coagulation system and arterial thrombosis.②AND toxicity and side effects. RESULTS: All the 32 white rabbits entered the final analysis. ① Anticoagulant effect: APTT: Fifteen minutes after administration, APTT in AND group was the longest,which was(136.86±39.46)s in high dosage AND group and (122.90±34.19) s in low dosage ANDgroup.Moreover, APTT was longer than that in saline group [(95.14±24.64) s], but shorter than that in common heparin group [(180.00±0.00) s, P ＜ 0.05, 0.01]. At 30 minutes after administration,AND in high dosage group still had coagulation,and APTT was (124.61±40.19) s in high dosage group, which was longer than that in saline group [(85.57±27.67) s], but APTT was (112.94±43.17) sin low dosage group,which was shorter than that in common heparin group [(85.57±27.67)s,P ＜ 0.05].APTT was shorter in high and low dosage groups than in common heparin group at 60 minutes after administration (P ＜ 0.05),and longer than that in saline group 2 hours after drug withdrawal,but there was not significant difference(P ＞ 0.05).PT:PT in common heparin group was longer than that in high and low dosage groups at 15,30 and 60 minutes after administration (P ＜ 0.05).② Effect on arterial thrombosis:Wet weight of thrombus:It was lighter in AND group than in common heparin group(P ＜ 0.05). Dry weight of thrombus:Thrombus was lighter in high and low dosage groups than in common heparin group, and was lighter in high dosage group than in low dosage group (P ＜ 0.05).Thrombus length:It was shorter in low dosage group than in saline group (P ＜ 0.05), and shorter in high dosage groupthan in common heparin group (P ＜ 0.05). Time of complete occlusion: It was longer in high and low dosage groups than in saline group(P ＜ 0.05).③ AND toxicity and side effects:The behavior of rabbits in high and low dosage groups was similar to that in other two groups. Obvious hemodynamic changes were not found, and bowel hemorrhage was not observed, either. CONCLUSION: AND is an effective anticoagulant and anti-thrombosis agent; the highest anticoagulation effect occurs at 15 minutes afteradminis tration. However, the anticoagulant effect is poor as compared to heparin.The effect is poorer after 60-minute administration. Effect of AND on thrombus is stronger than that of heparin,but the size of thrombus is smaller than that of heparin, and the dosage-dependence manner was found. In addition, the anti-thrombus effect of AND is stronger in high dosage group than in low dosage group.

Coronary Restenosis ; pathology ; Fibroblasts ; metabolism ; pathology ; Fibrosis

Atrioventricular Node ; physiopathology ; Cardiac Complexes, Premature ; diagnosis ; physiopathology ; surgery ; Catheter Ablation ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged

Adult ; Air Pollutants ; adverse effects ; Humans ; Male ; Military Medicine ; Monitoring, Physiologic ; Noise, Occupational ; adverse effects

Approximately 3 to 5％ of newly diagnosed metastatic cancers are of unknown primary tissue origin due to difficulties identifying a primary tumor using standard diagnostic approaches.MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have recently been demonstrated to be able to assist pathologist with improved accuracy in diagnosing cancers of unknown primary origin (CUP).In this short commentary,we will highlight some of the recent advancements in miRNA based cancer diagnosis as well as some future directions for the field.