Renal Allograft With Calcium Oxalate Deposition: Association with Urinary Tract Infection and Development of Interstitial Fibrosis.

Objectives: The interaction between calcium oxalate deposition and urinary tract infection is not well established. We aimed to identify the association between these and to determine the role of calcium oxalate deposition on interstitial fibrosis development.

Materials And Methods: Renal allograft biopsies of 967 patients were reviewed to identify those with calcium oxalate deposition in the renal allograft, with 27 (2.

The effect of penile urethral fat graft application on urethral angiogenesis.

Background: Autologous fat grafts are rich in adipose-derived stem cells, providing optimal soft-tissue replacement and significant quantities of angiogenic growth factor. Although fat grafts (FG) are used in several clinical conditions, the use of FG in urethral repairs and the effects of FG to urethral repairs have not yet been reported.

Objective: An experimental study was performed to evaluate the effect of FG on urethral angiogenesis and tissue growth factor (GF) levels.

Expression of Cox-2 and Bcl-2 in Paget's disease of the breast.

Background: Paget's disease (PD) is a rare form of intraepithelial adenocarcinoma that involves breast and extramammarian tissues. It is often associated with ductal carcinoma in situ and/or invasive ductal cancer. Molecular pathways that play a role in development of Paget's disease are stil unclear.

Tangier disease in a Turkish family.

In this report we describe the upper gastrointestinal tractus involvement in a rare genetic disease of lipid metabolism. A 12-year-old boy presented with sore throat and fever. On physical examination, orange-yellow tonsils and adenoid tissue were noted.