Lymph Node Yield/Ratio, Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio: Prognostic Factors in cN0 Laryngeal Carcinoma.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the role of lymph node yield (LNY), lymph node ratio (LNR), and neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) as prognostic factors, their impact on survival in patients with advanced laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC).

Methods: This multicentric retrospective study included 195 patients with clinical N0 advanced laryngeal carcinoma who underwent total laryngectomy and/or total pharyngolaryngectomy over 5 years. The number of lymph nodes extracted (LNY) and the number of positive nodes were counted.

Immunomodulatory effects of blood letting cupping therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

This study was carried out in order to evaluate the efficiency of blood-letting cupping (BLC) therapy as a complementary therapy in management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to investigate its modulatory effects on natural killer cells (NK) and soluble interleukin-2 receptor (SIL-2R). Two groups of RA patients diagnosed according to American Rheumatology Association were included: Group I included 20 patients who received the conventional medicinal therapy of RA, Group II included 30 patients who received combined conventional and BLC therapy. Ten age and sex matched normal controls were also included, as group III.

The role of coxsackieviruses infection in the children of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.

In the present study, there were two groups of diabetic patients. The first group was newly diagnosed diabetic patients of less than one year duration of disease. They were 40 patients.

Chronic liver disease and hepatitis C virus in Egyptian patients.

Background/aims: This study was designed to evaluate anti-HCV and anti-GOR in chronic liver disease (CLD) caused by HCV alone or with bilharzia.

Methodology: The parameters of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among 45 chronic liver disease (CLD) patients are the subject of this study. The samples that were collected included serum, saliva and liver biopsy.

Evidence of a 1985-1987 outbreak of acute and chronic hepatitis in Egypt caused by a mutant hepatitis-B virus detected by spot-DNA hybridization test.

Sera from 65 acute and 113 chronic sporadic hepatitis were screened for serological markers of hepatitis-B virus (HBV) and hepatitis delta virus (HDV) and for HBV-DNA. The enzyme linked immune sorbent assay (ELISA) and dot-DNA hybridization tests were used. Two HBV-DNA probes and their labelling systems (biotin, radiolabelling with 32P and digoxigenin) were compared for sensitivity and specificity.