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Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
B.S.A. College of Engineering and Technology, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Background: Cognitive dysfunction emerges as a manifestation of reduced estrogen levels following ovariectomy in an individual. However, the conventional use of estrogen replacement therapy could increase the risk of breast cancer and thromboembolism. Icariin is a natural compound that has been reported to be a neuroprotective agent against dementia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBreast Cancer Res Treat
January 2025
Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey.
Purpose: The characteristics of patients with bilateral and unilateral breast cancer at the time of diagnosis or during follow-up have been compared, focusing on the differences in disease-free survival and overall survival between these groups.
Methods: A total of 1,947 patients diagnosed with invasive carcinoma were included in the study. 1876 (96.
J Surg Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Pathology, University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
Gestational gigantomastia (GG) is a rare and severe clinical complication of pregnancy. It is characterized by dramatic and uncontrolled growth of the breasts, often leading to physical discomfort, psychological distress and significant surgical complications. Its pathophysiology is poorly understood; management options include conservative pharmacological and surgical interventions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMed J Malaysia
January 2025
Department of Ophthalmology, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (Deemed to be University): SIMATS Deemed University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
Tamoxifen, an oral medication that blocks estrogen activity, is frequently prescribed for the treatment of advanced breast cancer and as an additional therapy following surgical removal of early stage disease. A 45-year-old female with a history of breast carcinoma treated with tamoxifen presented with sudden onset bilateral visual impairment for 4 days. On ocular examination, the patient exhibited optic disc edema with hyperemia and bilateral anterior pathway defects in visual evoked potentials.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining is widely considered to be the gold-standard diagnostic tool for histopathology evaluation. However, the fatty nature of some tissue types, such as breast tissue, presents challenges with cryo-sectioning, often resulting in artifacts that can make histopathologic interpretation and correlation with other imaging modalities virtually impossible. We present an optimized on-block H&E staining technique that improves contrast for identifying collagenous stroma during cryo-fluorescence tomography (CFT) sectioning.
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