Library

feed icon rss

Your email was sent successfully. Check your inbox.

An error occurred while sending the email. Please try again.

Proceed reservation?

Export
  • 1
    ISSN: 1550-7408
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: A new microsporidium is reported infesting the enterocytes of a Haitian patient with AIDS. The stages observed were diplokaryotic cells, sporogonial plasmodia, unikaryotic sporoblasts, and spores. Neither a sporophorous vesicle (pansporoblastic membrane) nor parasitophorous vacuole were differentiated around the developmental stages, which were in direct contact with the host cell cytoplasm. The polar tube (5-6 coils) was differentiated before fission of the sporogonial plasmodium. The mature spores measured 1.5 m̈m × 0.5 m̈. The spore wall was very thin as the endospore was absent or poorly differentiated. The organism is named Enterocytozoon bieneusi n. g., n. sp. and is assigned to the suborder Apansporoblastina.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 2
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, U.K. and Cambridge, USA : Blackwell Science
    Histopathology 28 (1996), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2559
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 3
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    British journal of dermatology 125 (1991), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2133
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Biopsies were taken from the upper and inner arm of 10 60-year-old male cigarette smokers and compared with 10 age-matched controls who were non-smokers. The mean relative area, number and thickness of the elastic fibres were significantly increased in the cigarette smokers compared to the controls. These results were confirmed using antibodies to elastin or the microfibrillar component of elastic tissue. In the smokers the broader and more fragmented elastic fibres in the skin were not as intensely stained as those of the non-smokers and the ultrastructural alterations of the elastic fibres were similar to those in solar elastosis.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 4
    ISSN: 0248-4900
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Biology
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 5
    ISSN: 1432-2307
    Keywords: Bronchoalveolar fluids ; Cytoenzymology ; Immunofluorescence ; Scanning electron microscopy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Light cytology, enzymology, immunofluorescence and scanning electron microscopy have been performed on 49 bronchoalveolar fluids recovered by bronchoscopic lavage. The patients had the following lung diseases: infectious pneumonitis (19 cases), pulmonary fibrosis (13 cases) including 5 sarcoïdosis, 3 idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and 5 silicosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis (5 cases) and miscellaneous lung tumors (12 cases). Cytologic studies in comparison with clinical aspects show 4 groups: Group I (chronic bronchopneumopathy and inactive fibrosis) presents numerous cells but few lymphocytes (less than 5%); in Group II (evolutive fibrosis) have an increase percentage of lymphocytes (20%); in Group III (hypersensitivity pneumonitis) is observed a very high percentage of lymphocytes (45%); and in Group IV (cancerous lung diseases) values are not far from normal percentage except for lymphomas. Small macrophages (diameter: 10 microns) with a central monocytoïde nucleus and few cytoplasma, are abundant in groups II and III where lymphocytosis is higher. Scanning electron microscopy shows irregular and rough surface, and numerous spontaneous adherences with erythrocytes, lymphocytes, or bacterias. Enzymatic activity (acid hydrolase, esterase, oxydase) increases in these cells. Lymphocytes have a smooth surface evocative of T origin which is confirmed by granular acid phosphatase positivity and rosette forming test. Immunofluorescence shows positive granules with IgG, C1Q and C3 in macrophages only for Groups II and III while free immunoglobulins were present in the recovered lavage fluid.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 6
    ISSN: 1432-2307
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Les auteurs rapportent les données de l'étude ultrastructurale de deux observations de Malakoplakie. L'infiltrat cellulaire est constitué essentiellement d'histiocytes dont le cytoplasme est rempli d'inclusions `a contenu lamellaire (figures myéliniques) correspondant aux granules glycolipidiques PAS-positifs vus au microscope optique. Ces inclusions représentent le substrat du processus de calcification intra-cellulaire aboutissant aux corps de Michaelis-Gutmann. Dans l'une des observations existaient en outre des images d'érythrophagocytose et, dans certaines cellules, des bactéries en voie de digestion. Ces phénomènes sont peut-être à l'origine de la surcharge cytoplasmique en matériel membranaire, et sont à rapprocher, d'une part du contexte volontiers hémorragique accompagnant les lésions de malakoplakie, d'autre part d'une origine bactérienne possible de cette maladie, bien que les données de la littérature incitent à une grande prudence, du fait de contradictions fréquentes.
    Notes: Summary The authors report on the results of ultrastructural studies of two cases of Malacoplakia. The main part of the cell population was made up of histiocytes. Their cytoplasm was filled with unit membrane-lined vesicles containing lamellar structures (myeloïd bodies) revealed by light microscopy as granules stained by the A.P.S. reaction. Apatite crystals deposited upon these vesicles, leading to the development of Michaelis-Gutman bodies. In one of the two cases macrophages also contained erythrocytes and bacteria at various stages of phagocytosis; they may have been responsible for the accumulation of the lamellar structures in the cytoplasm of cells. These facts may be related to the high incidence of haemorrhage. An infectious etiology for this disease seems probable, this hypothesis being provided by several other authors.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 7
    ISSN: 1432-2307
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The authors report the results of an ultrastructural study of a beta-cell insuloma with amyloid stroma. In this stroma they found fibroblast-like cells never previously seen in tumor of this type. The cytoplasm of these cells was filled with microfilaments, giving them the appearance of amyloid. These cells seem to be similar to the so-called “stromal cells” described in medullary carcinoma of the thyroid gland. The role of stromal and epithelial cells in the production of amyloid in endocrine tumors is discussed.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 8
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    World journal of surgery 8 (1984), S. 547-551 
    ISSN: 1432-2323
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Les malades qui ont été opérés pour un cancer parathyroïdien hyperfonctionnel peuvent développer des métastases plusieurs années après l'intervention. Ces métastases sont souvent très difficiles à localiser avec les méthodes d'exploration courantes: tomodensitométrie (CT scan), scintigraphie, angiographie, cathétérisme veineux sélectif avec analyse radio-immunologique de la PTH. Malheureusement, l'irradiation, la chimiothérapie antinéoplasique et le traitement permanent hypocalcémiant sont le plus souvent inefficaces. L'exérèse est en fait le seul espoir de les contrôler, ainsi que le démontrent 2 cas où il fut procédé avec succès à l'exérèse des métastases intrathoraciques. Le premier malade présentait une métastase pulmonaire unique 12 ans après l'intervention initiale et le taux de la calcémie se montrait normal après la seconde intervention. Le second malade fut traité avec succès par résection d'une récidive locale 3 ans après la première opération, puis 2 ans après la résection d'une métastase médiastinale, l'hypocalcémie persistant un an après cette troisième intervention.
    Abstract: Resumen El carcinoma paratiroideo es raro. Su muy particular gravedad reside en la frecuencia de las recurrencias locales y la inducción de metástasis secretoras de hormona paratiroidea, lo cual da lugar a hipercalcemia y a un lento curso hacia la muerte con caquexia, dolores esqueléticos y falla renal. Los pacientes con carcinoma paratiroideo funcionante pueden desarrollar metástasis locales y distales muchos años después de su resección primaria.Tales lesiones son a veces muy difíciles de localizar, aún con los actuales métodos de diagnóstico, incluyendo la tomografía computadorizada, escintigrafía, angiografía y cateterización venosa selectiva con radioinmunoanálisis de hormona paratiroidea (PTH). Desafortunadamente la irradiación y la quimioterapia antineoplásica son generalmente infructuosas, y el tratamiento médico prolongado de la hipercalcemia es dificil, riesgoso y de poco éxito. La resección quirúrgica constituye realmente la única esperanza de controlar la enfermedad, tal como lo demuestran nuestros 2 casos de resección exitosa de metástasis intratorácicas. El primer paciente presentaba un nódulo metastásico intrapulmonar único 12 años después de la resección del tumor primario; dos años más tarde el calcio sérico se encontraba normal. El segundo paciente fue sometido a resección de una recurrencia local 3 años después de la excisión del carcinoma primario, y dos años más tarde a la resección de una metástasis intramediastinal. Un ano después el paciente se hallaba todavía hipocalcémico.
    Notes: Abstract Patients with functioning parathyroid carcinoma (PTC) may develop local or distant metastases many years after primary surgical resection. Such lesions are sometimes very difficult to localize, even with current investigative methods (including computed tomographic scanning, scintiscan, angiography, and selective venous catheterization with PTH radioimmunoassay). Unfortunately, radiation therapy, antineoplastic chemotherapy, and medical therapy aimed at reducing the hypercalcemia are generally unsuccessful. Surgical excision is, in fact, the only hope of controlling the disease, as illustrated by our 2 cases of successful resection of intrathoracic metastases. The first patient had a single intrapulmonary metastatic nodule 12 years after resection of a primary tumor. Two years after the thoracic operation, the serum calcium was normal. Following resection of a primary parathyroid carcinoma, the second patient had resection of a local recurrence (3 years later) and subsequently an intramediastinal metastasis (5 years later). He is hypocalcemic 1 year after the last surgery.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 9
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    International orthopaedics 4 (1980), S. 145-153 
    ISSN: 1432-5195
    Keywords: Intolerance ; Total hip prostheses ; Metallosis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé L'intolérance aux débris d'usure des prothèses en stellite (à propos de 30 cas réopérés) a été examinée: est-elle dûe à une allergie, une réaction à corps étranger, ou une toxicité? La surveillance de 1500 prothèses totales de hanche en stellite a révélé 30 descellements d'aspect atypique qui ont nécessité une réintervention. Celle-ci a révélé que ces descellements étaient aseptiques, non liés à des facteurs mécaniques (bonne fixation initiale de la prothèse, pas d'élévation significative du couple résistant). Ils étaient liés à l'existence, entre le cimennet l'os, d'un «pannus» épais et de mauvaise résistance mécanique, constitué de macrophages contenant des débris métalliques. La quantité de débris métalliques périprothètiques a pu être mesurée; leur présence à l'intérieur des macrophages a été mise en évidence par la microscopie optique et électronique, et leur nature a été analysée à l'aide de microsondes. Une étude immunologique assez détaillée a été réalisée à l'occasion du remplacement des prothèses en stellite par des prothèses en acier/polyéthylène: -modifications, à l'occasion d'examens répétés, pré- et post-operatoires, du taux des immuns-complexes circulants (précipitation par le polyéthylène glycol et test par hémolyse de la consommation du complément), ainsi que le dosage des fractions III et IV du complément; -étude en immunofluorescence des tissus périprothètiques (extra- et intra-cellulaire). Ces examens associés à la recherche de l'allergie cutanée et aux résultats des examens histologiques conventionnels, suggèrent que la survenue du «pannus», facteur du descellement, est en rapport avec l'abondance des macrophages, qui vont phagocyter les débris d'usure métalliques. Ce mécanisme pourrait être en relation, non seulement avec l'abondance, mais avec la taille des ces débris d'usure. Le «pannus» macrophagique pourrait intervenir, aussi bien en raison des mauvaises qualités mécaniques à l'interface, que par la libération d'enzymes protéolytiques d'origine lyzosomiale, lors de la mort des macrophages. Exceptionnellement (3cas) une nécrose des tissus périprothètiques, dont l'aspect peut être compatible avec une réaction allergique de type III, a été trouvée. Cependant, en règle générale, le descellement des prothèses en stellite ne semble pas en rapport avec des mécanismes immunologiques. L'existence d'une intolérance aux débris d'usure rend à nos yeux nécessaire que tous les nouveaux biomatériaux, distinés à être utilisés dans les arthroplasties, soient testés à l'aide du bilan détaillé que nous venons de définir, avant toute application clinique.
    Notes: Summary Intolerance to the products of wear of total hip prostheses made of Stellite has been examined questioning whether this was due to allergy, foreign body reaction or toxicity. Follow up of more than 1,500 total hip prostheses made of Stellite has shown atypical loosening in 30 cases, all requiring further operation. The loosening was aseptic and non-mechanical (there being good initial bonding of the prosthesis and no special change in frictional torque), but between the cement and the bone lay a thick structually weak ‘pannus’ made up of macrophages containing metallic particles. The amount of periprosthetic metallic debris has been measured, its presence inside the macrophages proved by optical and electronic microscopy and its nature analysed by micropobes. Finally, the following features have male up a comprehensive immunological study at the time of further operation, when the Stellite prosthesis has been replaced by a steel and polyethylene combination: -Variations in repeated pre- and post-operative estimations of the levels of circulating immune-complexes (precipitation by polyethylene glycol and haemolytic complement consumption tests), and of the III and IV fractions of serum complement; -Immunofluorescence studies of periprosthetic tissues (both extra- and intra-cellular). These investigations, associated with the detection of skin sensitivity and conventional histological findings, suggest that the occurrence of ‘pannus’ as the cause of loosening, is usually due to flocking of macrophages which phagocytose the metallic wear debris. This mechanism could be associated not only with the abundance, but also with the size of wear debris. The macrophage ‘pannus’ is likely to produce its effect as well because of poor mechanical properties at the interface than by the release of proteolytic enzymes of lyzosomal origin when the macrophages die. Exceptionally (3 cases), necrosis of periprosthetic tissues, with a histological appearance consistent with an allergic reaction — type III —, has been found. As a rule the loosening of Stellite prostheses does not seem to be associated with immunological mechanisms. However, it makes fundamental sense that the existence of sensitivity to particles of wear makes it important that any biomaterial to be used in prothetic arthroplasty, passes satisfactorily the comprehensive immunological tests that we have defined, before it is accepted for clinical use.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
Close ⊗
This website uses cookies and the analysis tool Matomo. More information can be found here...