Mediastinal Cartilaginous Hamartoma.

Pulmonary hamartomas are usually solitary, nodular benign lesions in the parenchyma of the lung. They are rarely situated in endobronchial areas, and very few cases are reported with the mediastinum.  A 56-year-old female patient got a CT-scan conducted due to coughing and breathlessness and was diagnosed with a nodular lesion in the medial mediastinum.

Solitary Fibrous Tumor of the Dorsal Tongue Area.

Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is a rare tumor occurring in pleura or extrapleural areas. The tongue is infrequently affected, in less than 25 published cases. A female patient, 35 years of age, noticed an oval mass in the posterior dorsal part of the tongue.

Urinary kidney injury molecule-1 rapid test predicts acute kidney injury in extremely low-birth-weight neonates.

Background: The new urinary and serum biomarkers are discovered and are being investigated. With them we can diagnose acute kidney injury (AKI) faster and more precisely and they also have a significant role in the outcome prediction.

Methods: The study included 22 extremely low-birth-weight neonates who were hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care units.

Dystrophic calcifications and Raynaud's phenomenon in an eight-year old girl.

Introduction: Dystrophic calcifications are the most common subtype of skin calcinosis. Tumorous soft tissue calcium deposits usually contain hydroxyapatite and amorphous calcium phosphate. Differential diagnosis of skin calcinosis encompasses Thibierge-Weissenbach syndrome, systemic sclerosis, scleroderma, CREST syndrome (calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly and telangiectasia), dermatomyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, ad myositis ossificans progressiva.

Early biomarkers of renal injury and protective effect of erythropoietin on kidneys of asphyxiated newborn rats.

Background: The aims of this study were to determine which of the two biomarkers of renal injury, kidney injury molecule-1 or cystatin C, is more sensitive and to evaluate whether erythropoietin protects kidneys injured by perinatal asphyxia.

Methods: Animals were split into three groups designated as follows: AE, pups that survived perinatal asphyxia and subsequently received 2.5 μg (0.