Serum endocan levels in endometrial and ovarian cancers.

Background: Ovarian and endometrial carcinomas are the two most common malignancies of the female reproductive system. Endocan is a proteoglycan that is specific to vascular endothelial cells. Increased serum levels have been reported in some tumors.

The determination of serum and urinary endocan concentrations in patients with bladder cancer.

Background Endocan (endothelial cell-specific molecule-1) is a proteoglycan and plays an important role in angiogenesis and inflammation. The aim of this study was to evaluate of serum and urinary concentrations of endothelial cell-specific molecule-1 in bladder cancer. Methods The study included 50 bladder cancer patients, 50 with urinary tract infection and 51 healthy volunteers.

Plasma coenzyme Q10 levels in type 2 diabetic patients with retinopathy.

Aim: To determine the relationship between proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDRP) and plasma coenzyme Q10(CoQ10) concentration.

Methods: Patients with type 2 diabetes and PDRP were determined to be the case group (n=50). The control group was consist of healthy individuals (n=50).

Better surgical method for removing perfluorocarbon liquids from the anterior chamber.

Purpose: To describe a surgical method for removing perfluorocarbon liquids from the anterior chamber.

Methods: Perfluorodecalin was noted in the anterior chamber in 2 patients after a vitreoretinal surgery was performed. We removed the perfluorodecalin by using a Rycroft cannula mounted on the tip of a tuberculin syringe with continued irrigation by means of an anterior chamber maintainer.

Investigation of the prevalence of essential tremor in individuals aged 18-60 in Erzurum.

Essential tremor (ET) is one of the common neurological diseases and it is the most common movement disorder in adults. The main clinical finding in patients with ET is kinetic tremor in the arms. There is no adequate study investigating the prevalence of ET in Turkey.

Relationship between plasma metalloproteinase-9 levels and volume and severity of infarct in patients with acute ischemic stroke.

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) constitute an endopeptidase family involved in various physiological and pathological processes. It was demonstrated that plasma MMP-9 level was increased in patients with acute ischemic stroke. In this study, it was investigated whether there was a relationship between the levels of plasma MMP-9 and the severity of stroke and infarct volume in patients with acute ischemic stroke.

Prognostic values of lesion volume and biochemical markers in ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke: a stereological and clinical study.

Purpose: Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between lesion volume, serum level of biochemical markers, and clinical situation in ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.

Methods: MRI was obtained on 33 ischemic and 28 hemorrhagic strokes. The Cavalieri method was used to measure the volume.

A successful treatment of avian influenza infection in Turkey.

Avian influenza is a disease characterized with severe pneumonia caused by virus influenza A. Birds and poultry are vectors for spread of this disease. It is diagnosed by clinical evidence and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.

Primary multiple hydatid cysts localizing in the petroclival area.

Hydatid cyst of the posterior fossa is very rare. In this report we present a 22-year-old female who had primary multiple hydatid cysts localizing in the petroclival areas. The report is noteworthy because of the unusual location, and the cranial and spinal dissemination of cysts despite previous treatment.

Protective effects of cisternal irrigation on leptomeningeal and cortical structures in meningitis: an experimental study.

Background: Meningitis, termed as foreign material collection in the subarachnoid space, leads to various meningeal, cerebral and spinal cord pathologies. Meningitis still remains a problematic disease with severe complications in spite of advanced medical technology.

Aims: In this study, we aimed to investigate the role of cisternal irrigation in the prevention of meningitis complications.

The effects of ketorolac and morphine on articular cartilage and synovium in the rabbit knee joint.

Analgesics are commonly injected intra-articularly for analgesia after arthroscopic surgery, especially of knee joints. The aim of this study was to research the effects of ketorolac and morphine on articular cartilage and synovial membrane. This study used rabbit right and left hind knee joints.

Familial multiple lipomatosis.

Background: Familial multiple lipomatosis is an extremely rare disease. The disease usually does not affect the daily life of FML victims, but they may experience difficulty in performing everyday physical tasks if the lipomas are multiple and large. Inheritance is frequently by autosomal dominant transmission, although cases with recessive inheritance have also been reported.

The effect of melatonin on peripheral blood cells during total body irradiation in rats.

Melatonin, has been reported to participate in the regulation of a number of important physiological and pathological process. It has also the ability to protect the genetic material of hematopoietic cells of mice from damaging effects of acute total body irradiation. The objective of this study was to the potential radioprotective effects of pharmacological doses of melatonin in total body irradiated rat's peripheral blood cells.

Epidemiology and aetiological factors of male breast cancer: a ten years retrospective study in eastern Turkey.

The aim of this study was to assess the epidemiological and aetiological factors of male breast carcinoma in eastern Turkey. For this purpose we evaluated breast carcinoma patients admitted to our regional hospital from 1990 to 2000. A total of 196 patients were admitted during that time, 11 of whom were male (5%).

Carotid artery pseudoaneurysm in Behcet's disease.

We report a case of carotid artery pseudoaneurysm occurring in a patient with Behcet's disease for the purpose of discussing approach to this unusual complication of Behcet's disease.

Giant cavernous hemangioma of the scalp.

In this article, a quite rare giant cavernous hemangioma located in right frontoparietal region of a 16 year-old boy is presented. Cavernous hemangiomas are commonly seen in extremities, neck, face and sometimes scalp, cutaneous or subcutaneous in localization. Giant cavernous hemangioma in the right frontoparietal region have been seen in two cases so far.

Optochiasmatic tuberculoma--case report and review.

An optochiasmatic tuberculoma, encasing the chiasm and optic nerves, was found in a 58-year-old woman complaining of sudden beginning and progressive visual failure. The patient was treated by surgery and prolonged corticosteroids and continued triple antituberculous therapy. Pathological diagnosis was a tuberculoma confirmed by postoperative positive polymerase chain reaction against M.

The effect of urokinase on experimental intracerebral haematomas.

Intracerebral-intraventricular haematoma was created experimentally by injecting coagulated autologous blood into the left cerebral hemispheres of rats, stereotactically 2200 U. Urokinase was injected into the haematomas of the treated group and the same volume of physiologic saline solution into the control group. Macroscopic evaluations were made at the end of 24 and 48 hours and lysis of the haematoma was observed in 90% of cases in the group treated with Urokinase.

Extradural hematoma complicating arachnoid cyst--case report.

A 37-year-old man is reported with post-traumatic extradural hematoma complicating an arachnoid cyst in the middle cranial fossa. While subdural and intracystic hemorrhages are well-known complications from this malformation, the association with extradural hematoma has only been reported in three cases in the literature. We describe a case occurring after head injury and discuss the etiology and treatment.

Fibrinolytic activity in experimental intracerebral hematoma.

We investigated the tissue fibrinolytic activity in an experimental model of intracerebral hematoma was developed in the guinea pig. Intracerebral hematoma was created by stereotaxically injecting 0.2 ml autologous blood into the left frontal lobe of a total 63 anesthetized adult male albino guinea pigs (weighing 280-350 gr.

Giant intracranial aneurysms in children and adolescents.

10 giant intracranial aneurysms in children were treated consecutively in Neurosurgical Department of Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey between 1985-1989. A total of 60 aneurysms of normal size were operated on in the same period. Of the ten cases 6 were male and 4 were female.

Clinical analysis of cerebral abscesses.

42 patients with cerebral abscesses were treated from 1979 until the end of the first six months of 1987 at the Neurosurgical Department of the Faculty of Medicine, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey. The present study aims at studying these patients to determine the factors affecting on prognosis. The patients were studied for the duration of complaints, pre-operational condition, the location of the abscesses, the microorganisms responsible for them, and the techniques of operation applied, by taking their sex and age into consideration.