Prevalence and Characteristics of Peripapillary Gamma Zone in Children With Different Refractive Status: The Hong Kong Children Eye Study.

Purpose: This study aimed to assess the prevalence and characteristics of the peripapillary gamma zone in myopic, emmetropic, and hyperopic eyes of Chinese children.

Methods: Overall, 1274 children aged 6 to 8 years from the Hong Kong Children Eye Study underwent ocular examinations, including measurements of cycloplegic auto-refraction and axial length (AL). The optic disc was imaged using a Spectralis optical coherence tomography (OCT) unit and a protocol involving 24 equally spaced radial B-scans.

Practical Application of Lineage-Specific Immunohistochemistry Markers: Transcription Factors (Sometimes) Behaving Badly.

Context.—: Transcription factors (TFs) are proteins that regulate gene expression and control RNA transcription from DNA. Lineage-specific TFs have increasingly been used by pathologists to determine tumor lineage, especially in the setting of metastatic tumors of unknown primary, among other uses.

Gender differences in the academic and clinical performances of undergraduate nursing students: a systematic review.

Objectives: Nursing is often regarded as a female-dominated profession. Many nursing curricula are received by mainly female students. It is uncertain how male students behave in this environment of nursing education in hospitals and universities.

Voices from a minority: experiences of chinese male nursing students in clinical practice.

In Hong Kong, males constituted only about 10.2% of the nursing workforce in 2010. The learning experiences of male nursing students in Hong Kong during their clinical practicum have rarely been explored.

RNA silencing in white petunia flowers creates pigmentation patterns invisible to the human eye.

Modern commercial petunias exhibit a wide range of flower colors, which can be observed in gardens. In this study, we present a petunia cultivar that exhibits a floral pattern that is invisible to humans but is possibly visible to pollinating insects. We show that this hidden pattern is established by differentially localized accumulation of flavonols and cinnamic acid derivatives in the corolla limb.

Localisation of occult breast lesion: a comparative analysis of hookwire and radioguided procedures.

Objectives: For occult breast lesions, to retrospectively compare the performance of radioguided and hookwire methods in terms of ease of localisation and surgical procedures, and the ability to obtain a specimen with a clear margin.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Regional hospital, Hong Kong.

Local tumor progression after radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors: analysis of morphologic pattern and site of recurrence.

Objective: The purpose of our study was to assess the morphologic pattern and exact site of local tumor progression with relation to various risk factors after radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors.

Conclusion: Local tumor progression after radiofrequency ablation shows mostly the peripheral nodular type. The site of local tumor progression shows a higher concordance rate with insufficient ablative margin than contiguous vessel and subcapsular location.

Unique hepatic imaging features in a patient with nodular regenerative hyperplasia of the liver associating with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Nodular regenerative hyperplasia (NRH) of the liver, characterized by regenerative nodules distributed throughout the liver in the absence of fibrosis, is a rare but important complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The main consequence of NRH is non-cirrhotic portal hypertension. We describe a female patient who had immune thrombocytopenia in association with elevated liver enzymes and evidence of portal hypertension as initial manifestations of SLE.