This case further emphasizes the capacity of pulmonary carcinoid tumor cells to show various morphologic expressions even toward a mesenchymal differentiation mimicking a synovial sarcoma.”
“Chronic microvascular compressions of the eighth nerve induce a slowing down of signal transmission in the auditory nerve, electrophysiologically characterized by IPL I-III prolongation.\n\nThe authors hypothesize this is compensated by an active slowing down of signal transmission of the contralateral input at the level of the brainstem, characterized by contralateral IPL III-V prolongation.\n\nDifferences between ipsilateral and contralateral IPL I-III and IPL III-V are analyzed

before and after microvascular decompression. ABR diagnostic criteria

for microvascular compression are ipsilateral IPL I-III prolongation or ipsilateral peak II find more decrease + ipsilateral IPL I-III prolongation. With IPL I-III as diagnostic check details criterion, unlike preoperatively the difference between the ipsi- and contralateral IPL I-III is significant postoperatively. When using the stricter diagnostic criterion of IPL I-III + peak II, there is a preoperative significant difference between ipsi- and contralateral IPL I-III, but postoperatively the difference between the ipsi- and contralateral IPL I-III is not significant.\n\nPreoperatively, there is a marginal significant difference between the ipsi- and contralateral IPL III-V, which disappears postoperatively.”
“Internal impingement is a term used to describe the pathologic contact of the undersurface of the rotator cuff with the glenoid. It typically occurs in overhead athletes, particularly throwers. In these athletes, the bones and soft tissues adapt to allow these athletes to have a supraphysiologic range of SBE-β-CD motion. In many athletes, these changes may lead to symptoms of internal impingement. This article discusses the background, biomechanics, pathophysiology,

clinical and radiographic assessment, treatments, and outcomes of this disorder.”
“PURPOSE\n\nThe quantitative relationship between tumor morphology and malignant potential has not been explored in liver tumors. We designed a computer algorithm to analyze shape features of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and tested feasibility of morphologic analysis.\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\n\nCross-sectional images from 118 patients diagnosed with HCC between 2007 and 201 0 were extracted at the widest index tumor diameter. The tumor margins were outlined, and point coordinates were input into a MATLAB (Math-Works Inc., Natick, Massachusetts, USA) algorithm. Twelve shape descriptors were calculated per tumor: the compactness, the mean radial distance (MRD), the RD standard deviation (RDSD), the RD area ratio (RDAR), the zero crossings, entropy, the mean Feret diameter (MFD), the Feret ratio, the convex hull area (CHA) and perimeter (CHP) ratios, the elliptic compactness (EC), and the elliptic irregularity (El).