TNM staging and classification (familial and nonfamilial) of breast cancer in Jordanian females.

Purpose: Staging of breast tumor has important implications for treatment and prognosis. This study aims at pinpointing the frequency of each stage among familial and nonfamilial breast cancers.

Materials And Methods: Ninety-nine Jordanian females diagnosed with familial and nonfamilial breast cancer between 2000 and 2002 were enrolled in this study All breast cancer cases were staged according to the TNM classification into in situ, early invasive, advanced invasive and metastatic.

Surgical treatment of palmar hyperhidrosis: results of 60 cases using video assisted thoracoscopic sympathectomy technique.

This study explained surgical treatment of sixty patients by video assisted thoracoscopic sympathectomy for palmar hyperhidrosis. Treatment was successful proved the life quality in a majority of patients.

Use of osmotic pumps for subcutaneous infusion of growth hormone-releasing factors in steers and wethers.

Osmotic pumps were evaluated for 7-d delivery of growth hormone-releasing factor (GRF). In Exp. 1, 12 steers weighing 253 kg received hGRF(1-29)NH2 in H2O at rates of 0, 3, 30 and 300 pmol.

Plasma gonadotropin and progesterone concentrations during the estrous cycle of Finn, Suffolk and Targhee ewes.

Hormonal profiles during the estrous cycle of Finn, Suffolk and Targhee ewes were compared in six ewes of each breed. Blood samples were drawn by venipuncture at 8-h intervals from onset to onset of consecutive estrous periods. Number of corpora lutea (CL) and ovarian follicles >/=3 mm in diameter on Day 10 (estrus = Day 0) were observed using endoscopy.

Twenty-four-hour growth hormone profiles in Angus steers.

A study was conducted in February 1984 to characterize plasma growth hormone (GH) patterns in steers. Eight Angus steers averaging 285 d of age and 276 kg were housed in a sheltered pen and group-fed once daily. Animals gained at a mean rate of .