Fungi in cake production chain: Occurrence and evaluation of growth potential in different cake formulations during storage.

This study aimed to determine the prevalence and populations of fungi in cake production chain. Besides, the growth potential of twelve fungal strains in different cake formulations was evaluated. Raw materials from two different batches (n=143), chocolate cakes (n=30), orange cakes (n=20), and processing environment air samples (n=147) were analyzed.

Differentiating between Traumatic Pathology and Congenital Variant: A Case Report of Butterfly Vertebra.

Butterfly vertebra is a rare congenital malformation of the spine, which is usually reported in the literature as an isolated finding. We describe a 40-year-old woman that presented to our emergency department with back pain and sciatica. Initial radiological evaluation revealed an incidental finding of a L4 butterfly vertebra in the anteroposterior and lateral view radiographs.

Intestinal type adenocarcinoma of the ethmoid: Outcomes of a treatment regimen based on endoscopic surgery with or without radiotherapy.

Background: The purpose of this study was to assess survival, prognostic factors, and complications in a cohort of patients with intestinal-type adenocarcinoma (ITAC) treated with transnasal endoscopic surgery ± radiotherapy (RT).

Methods: Patients with ITAC who underwent endoscopic surgery ± RT at 2 tertiary centers were retrospectively reviewed. Overall survival (OS) and event-free survival were calculated, and statistically significant variables were entered in a multivariate Cox regression model.

Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of spinal osteoid osteoma under CT guidance.

Objective: Osteoid osteoma (OO) accounts for approximately 10-12% of all benign bone tumours and 3% of all bone tumours. Spinal involvement appears in 10-25% of all cases. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of CT-guided radiofrequency (RF) ablation in the treatment of spinal OOs and report our experience.

The unusual chance fracture: case report & literature review.

The Chance fracture represents a spinal lesion caused by a flexion-distraction injury pattern. We describe a rare case of a male driver admitted at the Emergencies of our Institution, level A Trauma center. The was involved in an automobile accident without wearing a seatbelt.

Distraction over nail using circular external fixation for septic pseudarthrosis of the tibia.

We present a report of nine patients (eight women and one man; mean age 37 years) from 2010 to 2012 with septic pseudarthrosis of the tibia treated with bone transport over an intramedullary nail using a circular external fixator. The mean follow-up was 15 months (range: 10-21 months). A two stage approach was used.

Bioabsorbable pins for treatment of osteochondral fractures of the knee after acute patella dislocation in children and young adolescents.

A retrospective study was performed on the use of bioabsorbable pins in the fixation of osteochondral fractures (OCFs) after traumatic patellar dislocation in children. Eighteen children (13 females, 5 males) aged 11 to 15 years (mean age 13.1 years) with osteochondral fracture (OCF) of the knee joint were treated at the authors' institution.

[Sino-nasal inverted papillomas and occupational etiology].

The sino-nasal inverted papilloma is a rare benign tumour with certain aggressive features because of frequent relapses and the high probability of malignant degeneration. For these reasons, several studies have been made to evaluate the efficacy of the different courses of treatment, but only afew studies have been carried out to establish the etiology of this tumour, which is still uncertain. Although it is believed that viral infection, chronic inflammation and cigarette smoking can play an important etiological role, it has recently been suggested that occupational risk factors, such as those involved in malignant epithelial sino-nasal cancer (SNC), can also be involved in causing sino-nasal inverted papilloma.

Beta 2 glycoprotein I and placental anticoagulant protein I in placentae from patients with antiphospholipid syndrome.

Objective: To investigate the immunohistological distribution of beta 2-glycoprotein I (beta 2 GPI) and placental anticoagulant protein I (PAP-I) in normal and pathological placentae of patients with antiphospholipid (aPL) antibody associated recurrent fetal loss. These proteins are 2 natural anticoagulants able to interfere with aPL antibody binding.

Methods: Placentae from 4 patients with primary antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (pAPS), from 2 patients with aPL negative systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and from 7 healthy women were studied.

Association between silica exposure and necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis with p-ANCA and anti-MPO antibodies: a hospital-based case-control study.

A hospital-based case-control study was carried out to investigate the association between ANCA positive rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) and occupational exposure to silica dust. All ANCA positive male patients admitted to the Department of Nephrology of the University of Brescia between 1987 and 1992 were enrolled in the study as cases. The controls were pts of the same age, admitted at the Department immediately before or after the cases, affected by other renal diseases.

Histological features of uteroplacental vessels in normal and hypertensive patients in relation to birthweight.

Placental bed biopsies were obtained during caesarean section from normal, pre-eclamptic and hypertensive pregnancies. Of the 14 biopsies from normal pregnancies 13 showed normal vascular physiological changes in the decidua and in the myometrium. Biopsies from 24 pregnancies complicated by pre-eclampsia showed acute atherosis in 18 and physiological changes limited to the decidua in six; none had normal physiological changes.

Severe glomerular epithelial cell damage does not prevent passive Heyman nephritis in rats.

Passive Heymann nephritis (PHN) is an experimental model of membranous glomerulopathy in the rat ascribed to in situ formation of immune complexes. Very recently the demonstration that the aminonucleoside of puromycin provides some protection against PHN has highlighted the role of intrinsic properties of the glomerulus in immune complex formation. Adriamycin, a widely employed chemotherapeutic agent, is known to induce a nephrotic syndrome in rats characterized by severe ultrastructural changes of glomerular epithelial cells and by loss of glomerular polyanionic charges.

Cellular localization of keratin in proliferative epithelial processes and neoplasms of the human ovary.

Cytokeratins are one of the intermediate cytoplasmic filaments which contribute to the cytoskeleton. Keratins have recently been demonstrated in normal and neoplastic tissues as well as in human cell lines. It has been suggested that the cellular location of keratin may reflect tissue-specific or epithelial type differentiation.