Pre-clinical study of curcumin in the treatment of gastric Cancer by Minghui Hao, Chungang Zhang

“…Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer globally and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths. …”
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Stomach Metastasis in a Patient with Prostate Cancer 4 Years after the Initial Diagnosis: A Case Report and a Literature Review by Ahmet Bilici, Mustafa Dikilitas, Ozlem Ton Eryilmaz, Bekir Selim Bagli, Fatih Selcukbiricik

“…Prostate cancer commonly metastasizes bones and lymph nodes, but it very rarely spreads to the gastrointestinal tract. …”
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Female genital tuberculosis presenting as a protruding anterior vaginal wall mass: a case report by Mequanint Melesse Bicha, Tewodros Zenabu Kebede, Ayalew Lingerih Arefeaynie, Eden Woldegerima Meressa

“…Although pulmonary tuberculosis is a common infectious disease, especially in low-and middle-income countries, female genital tract tuberculosis (TB) is rarely reported. …”
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Recurring Facial Erythema in an Infant by Sam Hassan, Mary Jacqueline Saviour

“…Causes of facial rashes and erythema in infants are many but rarely only happen during feeding times which are commonly and sometimes wrongly attributed to food allergy. …”
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Suppression of Brazier Effect in Multilayered Cylinders by Hiroyuki Shima, Motohiro Sato, Sung-Jin Park

“…The present paper is aimed at theoretical formulation of the Brazier effect observed in multilayered cylinders, in which a set of thin hollow cylinders are stacked concentrically about the common axis. The results indicate that mechanical couplings between stacked cylinders are found to yield pronounced suppression of the cross-sectional ovalization. …”
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Acute Appendicitis: An Extracolonic Manifestation of Clostridium difficile Colitis by Ali Ridha, Shoaib M. Safiullah, Sarah Al-Abayechi, Amin Ur Rehman Nadeem

“…Although both appendicitis and C. difficile colitis are common conditions, they are rarely diagnosed concurrently. …”
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Implications of the Incidental Finding of a MYCN Amplified Adrenal Tumor: A Case Report and Update of a Pediatric Disease Diagnosed in Adults by Anna Koumarianou, Panagiota Oikonomopoulou, Margarita Baka, Dimitrios Vlachodimitropoulos, Stylianos Argentos, Theodoros Piperos, Maria-Ioanna Christodoulou, Kakoulis Theodoulou, Theodoros Mariolis-Sapsakos

“…While neuroblastoma is one of the most common childhood malignancies, in adults it is extremely rare and its treatment is based on pediatric protocols that take into consideration stage and genotypic features, such as MYCN amplification. …”
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Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome (SOS) in Multiple Myeloma with Renal Failure by Urvi A. Shah, Sengottuvel Viswanathan, Beamon Agarwal, Aditi Shastri, Ioannis Mantzaris, Murali Janakiram, Noah Kornblum, Ira Braunschweig, Amit Verma, Yang Shi, John Reinus, Olga Derman

“…Although, melphalan and cyclophosphamide cause SOS less commonly than alkylating agents such as busulfan, physicians must use caution when administering these drugs to patients with underlying comorbidities such as renal failure that may increase the likelihood of development of SOS. …”
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Ileocecal intussusception in a patient with ileal melanoma metastasis: clinical case and review of the literature by M. A. Danilov, A. O. Atroschenko, S. V. Pozdnyakov, G. G. Saakyan

“…Intestinal intussusception is a rare condition, especially in adults, which can develop due to both benign and malignant neoplasms. Commonly intestinal intussusception is an accidental diagnostic finding, however cases of clinically severe intussusception resulting in impaired passage of intestinal content are described in the literature. …”
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Two Brothers with Bardet-Biedl Syndrome Presenting with Chronic Renal Failure by Cem Sahin, Bulent Huddam, Gulhan Akbaba, Hasan Tunca, Emine Koca, Mustafa Levent

“…Renal failure accompanying the syndrome, especially in the advanced stages, is the most common cause of mortality. Therefore, as one of the major diagnostic criteria, renal damage is of great importance in early diagnosis. …”
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Pneumomediastinum and Bilateral Pneumothoraces Causing Respiratory Failure after Thyroid Surgery by Michael Koeppen, Benjamin Scott, Joseph Morabito, Matthew Fiegel, Tobias Eckle

“…Because pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum might be more common than reported, and considering increasing cases of thyroid surgery, staff should remain vigilant of pulmonary complications after thyroid surgery.…”
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Sarcoidosis and Its Splenic Wonder: A Rare Case of Isolated Splenic Sarcoidosis by Khushali Jhaveri, Abhay Vakil, Salim R. Surani

“…The pulmonary interstitium is most commonly affected but extrapulmonary involvement can occur in almost any other organ system. …”
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Role of Genetic Alterations in the NLRP3 and CARD8 Genes in Health and Disease by G. V. Paramel, A. Sirsjö, K. Fransén

“…The complexity of a common inflammatory disease is influenced by multiple genetic and environmental factors contributing to the susceptibility of disease. …”
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Non-uniform Fourier transform based image classification in single-particle Cryo-EM by ZiJian Bai, Jian Huang

“…In the single-particle Cryo-EM projection image classification, it is a common practice to apply the Fourier transform to the images and extract rotation-invariant features in the frequency domain. …”
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Extractive Spectrophotometric Methods for the Determination of Etoricoxib in Tablets by Kamal Shah, Alka Gupta, Pradeep Mishra

“…Recovery studies gave satisfactory results indicating that none of common additives and excipients interfere the assay method. …”
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Lanthanum-Induced Radiopaque Intestinal Precipitates: A Potential Cause of Intestinal Foreign Bodies by Jason Galo, Bianca Madrid, Warren Kupin

“…Lanthanum carbonate is a commonly prescribed oral phosphate binder for use in patients with acute or chronic kidney disease. …”
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Managing Southern Chinch Bug in Warm Season Turfgrasses by Eileen A. Buss, Brianna Whitman, Adam G. Dale

“…Augustinegrass is the most common turfgrass used in Florida. The ubiquity of this single turfgrass species makes southern chinch bug an economically important pest in the state. …”
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The Exit Time and the Dividend Value Function for One-Dimensional Diffusion Processes by Peng Li, Chuancun Yin, Ming Zhou

“…Then, as some examples, we solve the closed-form expression of the Laplace transform of the exit times for several popular diffusions, which are commonly used in modelling of finance and insurance market. …”
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De Novo Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis (FGN) in a Renal Transplant with Chronic Hepatitis C by Edward J. Filippone, Christine Chmielewski, Rakesh Gulati, Eric Newman, John L. Farber

“…Glomerulonephritis (GN) of the renal allograft in the setting of HepC most commonly manifests as type 1 membranoproliferative GN (MPGN), either representing recurrence of the original disease or arising de novo. …”
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Effects of tributyltin on placental and reproductive abnormalities in offspring by Charles S. da Costa, Hanin Alahmadi, Genoa R. Warner, Maria Tereza Nunes, Glaecir Roseni Mundstock Dias, Leandro Miranda-Alves, Jones B. Graceli

“…ABSTRACT Tributyltin (TBT) is an organotin compound and a common persistent environmental pollutant with endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) actions. …”
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