Miliary tuberculosis with indeterminate interferon gamma release assay results.

Recently, interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs) have become an important clinical tool for detecting latent tuberculosis. However, IGRA results may impede making a diagnosis. We herein present an interesting case of miliary tuberculosis with a nonspecific IGRA reaction due to hemophagocytosis.

Improving in the fasting, but not the postprandial, glucose level is associated with reduction of plasma d-ROMs level in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Aims: This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between improvement of glucose metabolism and plasma levels of diacron-reactive oxygen metabolites (d-ROMs) in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: As the first daily profile, the plasma levels of glucose and d-ROMs were determined on admission. Then, after treatment to lower plasma glucose levels, the second daily profile of these levels was evaluated.

Metastatic ovarian tumors: a review of 64 cases.

Objective: The goal was to review cases of metastatic ovarian tumor with respect to their clinical features.

Methods: Sixty-four patients with pathologically confirmed metastatic ovarian carcinoma, who were treated between 1978 and 2002 at Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases (OMCC), were reviewed and the clinical features examined.

Results: We found that metastatic tumors accounted for 21.

Expression of platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor/thymidine phosphorylase in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.

Angiogenesis contributes to the growth and secondary spreading of solid tumors. Platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor (PD-ECGF)/thymidine phosphorylase (TP) has been identified as such an angiogenic factor. In this study, the expression of PD-ECGF/TP and VEGF was evaluated by immunohistochemical staining of tumor specimens from 40 patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (10 with moderate dysplasia; 10 with severe dysplasia; 10 with carcinoma in situ; 10 with invasive carcinoma).