Low prevalence of obesity in Behçet's disease is associated with high obestatin level.

Objective: Chronic inflammatory diseases are associated with altered body composition. Ghrelin has anti-inflammatory effects, and its level is altered in obesity and inflammatory diseases. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of obesity and ghrelin and obestatin levels in patients with Behçet's disease (BD).

Incidentally Detected Lithopedion in an 87-Year-Old Lady: An Autopsy Case Report.

A lithopedion is a rare complication of pregnancy that occurs when a fetus in an intraabdominal location dies, and it is too large to be reabsorbed by the body. The case was an 87-year-old woman, and she was transferred to the morgue department in April 2014 to determine the cause of death. During autopsy, an intraabdominally located calcified dead fetus and a 12-cm diameter calcified cyst in the right ovary were incidentally detected.

Influence of preoperative pain duration on microsurgical varicocelectomy outcomes.

Objective. To investigate the question of whether duration of pain before surgery ultimately affects sperm parameters after varicocelectomy. Methods.

Lung parenchymal injury and its frequency in blunt thoracic trauma: the diagnostic value of chest radiography and thoracic CT.

Purpose: The aims of this study were to determine the value of chest radiography in diagnosing lung parenchymal injury in patients with thoracic trauma, and to evaluate the frequency of lung parenchymal injury by using thoracic computed tomography (CT).

Materials And Methods: Between January 2005 and June 2006, we retrospectively evaluated the anteroposterior chest radiographs and thoracic CTs of 60 patients that presented to our emergency department and were hospitalized due to multi-organ trauma.

Results: Chest radiography revealed parenchymal injury in 32 of the patients, while thoracic CT confirmed parenchymal injury in only 27 of these 32 patients.

Percutaneous ureterostomy as an effective diversion in a newborn.

Ectopic ureter in a duplicated system in men is rare and rarely causes bilateral obstructive symptoms. The tendency of the ureter to dilate more than the caliceal system is unique to neonates and makes upper urinary diversions more challenging. However, alternative percutaneous diversions other than nephrostomy might be beared in mind in such cases with huge dilatation in ureters in suffering neonates.

Case series: pseudotumor formation in bladder as a late complication of pelvic and inguinal surgeries.

Inguinal and pelvic surgeries are rarely complicated by urologic complications. Eleven cases having such history admitted to our department with urologic symptoms were shown to have microscopic hematuria and bladder lesions as well. All of them were explored some due to retained gauze compress some due to suspected malignant formations on computerized tomography.

Laser-assisted fluoroscopic puncture: a new technique for accessing the kidney.

Purpose: We developed a laser pointer device that is mounted on the image intensifier of a C-arm fluoroscope. The laser-assisted fluoroscopic puncture technique (LAFPT) is an alternative method of accessing the kidney.

Materials And Methods: The LAFPT was assessed both in an in vitro model and in a series of cases.

The effect of vascular endothelial growth factor on angiogenesis: an experimental study.

Objective: to evaluate the effects of exogenous vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) on angiogenesis in a rabbit model of persistent hind limb ischaemia.

Materials And Methods: ischaemia was induced in the hind limbs of 42 New Zealand white rabbits divided into six groups, each of 7 animals. Group 1a and 1b received intramuscular injections of 1 and 2 mg VEGF/day, respectively, into the ischaemic hind limb for 10 days beginning on postoperative 11th day, and group 1c received IM injections of saline only.