Serum and erythrocyte adenosine deaminase activities in patients with Behçet's disease.

Objectives: Adenosine deaminase (ADA) is a non-specific marker of the activation of the T cell, which has an important role in the etiology of Behçet's disease (BD). The purpose of this study was to investigate the determination of ADA activity as an index of T-lymphocyte function in BD, which is known to have an T-cell-mediated immune response.

Materials And Methods: Adenosine deaminase activities in both serum and erythrocytes were measured in 23 untreated patients with BD and in 20 healthy controls.

Subclinical injury to forearm nerves during radial harvesting: electrophysiologic study.

Background And Aim: There are few reports about injury to forearm nerves and its potential mechanisms during radial artery (RA) harvesting. We studied electrophysiologic changes in these nerves not sought until now.

Methods: Among 152 consecutive patients who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery between February 2002 and August 2002, 20 were randomized for RA harvesting and formed the study group and 20 were randomized as control group.

Brain metastasis from an adenoid cystic carcinoma of the Bartholin gland. Case report.

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) of the Bartholin gland is an uncommon malignant gynecological tumor. Brain metastasis from a malignant gynecological lesion is encountered rarely and the prognosis for this type of metastasis is poor. Different treatment protocols, such as resection, stereotactic radiosurgery, whole-brain radiation therapy (WBRT), and chemotherapy, are available and should be considered on an individual basis.