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Periosteal Ewing’s sarcoma is very rare. In this report, we describe three cases of periosteal Ewing’s sarcoma, illustrating the principal clinical, radiographic, and histologic features. The patients were ag...
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Sizable glomus tumors with cystic changes in the ankle are extremely uncommon. This paper describes painless glomus tumors with cystic changes arising in the ankle of a 22-year-old woman. At the age of 14, a ...
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We report two cases of intraosseous lipoma arising in the calcaneus of a 36-year-old and a 22-year-old women complaining of heel pain. Plain radiographs and computed tomography scans revealed cystic lesions i...
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Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED) is a relatively uncommon inherited disorder of epiphyseal maturation. Affected individuals may have a degree of short-limbed dwarfism, short stubby digits, and stiff or pai...
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Histopathological findings in renal allograft with stable function remain unclear. We therefore performed non-episode biopsy in the long-surviving renal allograft to investigate the histopathological changes....
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Open AccessSynergistic induction of ICAM-1 expression by cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil in a cancer cell line via a NF-κB independent pathway
Cisplatin (CDDP) and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) are common anti-tumour agents, and the anti-tumour effect of CDDP and 5-FU are synergistically enhanced by combined treatment. To clarify the mechanisms of this syner...
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We describe a boy aged nine months with infantile cortical hyperostosis in association with cystic fibrosis. Symmetrical periosteal thickening was present in the clavicles, ribs, femora, humeri, ...
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The homozygous form of β-thalassemia, the most common single gene disorder, is treated by red cell transfusion therapy. Following transfusion, the chelator, deferoximine, is administered to patients to remove ...
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Interpolation to Reduce Difficulty in D/A Conversion
It is difficult to design an analogue low-pass filter for D/A conversion if the sampling frequency is very near to Nyquist’s frequency; even if the sampling frequency is not near the Nyquist frequency, it is s...
