Introduction: Liver rupture is a serious event that is most commonly due to blunt abdominal trauma. We present a case of peliosis hepatis in a patient admitted for acute pyelonephritis who developed hemoperitoneum due to spontaneous hepatic rupture from this rare liver condition.
Presentation Of Case: We report a 44 year-old woman who presented to our hospital with acute pyelonephrititis and hemoperitoneum due to spontaneous hepatic rupture from peliosis hepatis.
The spatial organization of proteins in a cell population or in tissues is an important parameter to study the functionality of biological specimens. In this article, we have focused on tight junctions which form network-like features in immunofluorescence microscopy images. Usually, the organization or disorganization of tight junctions is noticed qualitatively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is nowadays widely accepted as a technique with high potential for diagnosis of cancerous tissues. This study presents an example of the investigation of peritoneal metastases by FTIR microimaging. Peritoneal malignancies are generally secondary localizations of primary visceral cancers such as ovarian, stomach or colon cancers.
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