(a.) Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
(3) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(4) The vulvar white keratotic lesions which have been subjected to histological examination in Himeji National Hospital (1973-1987) included 13 cases in benign dermatoses, 4 cases in vulvar epithelial hyperplasia, 3 cases in lichen sclerosus, and 3 cases in lichen sclerosus with foci of epithelial hyperplasia.
(5) Such complications as intracerebral haematoma or meningeal haemorrhage may occur during the usually benign course of the disease.
(6) Aneurysmal bone cyst is an uncommon benign lesion that rarely presents in the craniofacial region.
(7) Benign and malignant epithelial and soft tissue tumors of the skin were usually negatively stained with MoAb HMSA-2.
(8) HCT were classified by light microscopy as benign (n = 22), intermediate (n = 30), and malignant (n = 13).
(9) Four cases of benign lymphoid hyperplasia (BLH) of the duodenal bulb are reported.
(10) However, in benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) cases, a high false positive rate of 41% was observed in Americans.
(11) One week after initiation is 1-2 months before the appearance of benign papillomas that harbor activated Ha-ras oncogenes when the initiated mice are promoted with the tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate.
(12) Gangliogliomas are rare benign tumors of the central nervous system containing neoplastic ganglion and low grade glial cells.
(13) It is important to be aware of the histological characteristics of this essentially benign condition so that unnecessary radical therapies can be avoided.
(14) No malignant tumour failed to be diagnosed (100% reliable), the anatomopathological examination of specimens in benign conditions was never wrong (100% reliable).
(15) Positive staining was present in cells in almost all of the benign and fibro-histiocytic lesions but was reduced in the malignant group.
(16) In this paper, 5 patients with benign tumor (3 tubular adenoma, 1 leiomyoma and 1 fibroma) and 35 pseudotumor (26 cholesterol polyps and 9 inflammatory polyps) of the gallbladder are presented.
(17) Because of the small number of cases (7), however, we are not able to state whether it is possible to distinguish between benign and malignant tumors in all cases.
(18) This postoperative surveillance was aimed at discovering benign or malignant neoplastic growth within the remaining large bowel.
(19) However, despite extreme neutropenia, infection is rare in chronic benign neutropenia patients.
(20) In contrast, there was only a 5% incidence of malignant neoplasia and a 29% incidence of benign neoplasia in the respiratory region.
Papilloma
Definition:
(n.) A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillae of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.
Example Sentences:
(1) One week after initiation is 1-2 months before the appearance of benign papillomas that harbor activated Ha-ras oncogenes when the initiated mice are promoted with the tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate.
(2) The functional polarity of normal mucosa epithelium and of papilloma is also evidenced in terms of NOR-related parameters.
(3) A case of papilloma of the gallbladder is reported.
(4) In the advanced papilloma, cytolytic cells in the outer spinous and the granular layers did not stain positively with any of the three antibodies used.
(5) Quadrantectomy centered around the discharging duct, is the procedure of choice in this disease, at the interface between diagnostic and treatment, in fact, if benign tumors (papillomas) or non tumoral diseases (fibrocystic mastopathy and duct ectasia) predominate, invasive or in-situ malignant lesions represent 13 p. cent of these 46 discharges, justifying the significance of this clinical sign.
(6) The nucleic acid extracts from the Vx7 carcinomas consistently yielded papillomas whereas those from Vx2 completely failed to do so.
(7) Treatment of transitional papilloma is always surgical.
(8) This paper describes immunostaining of consecutive sections from 15 cases of fibrocystic change of the breast (including 2 examples of intraductal papilloma), 4 ductal carcinomas-in-situ and 17 invasive carcinomas (4 tubular, 1 papillary, 2 lobular and 10 infiltrating ductal, NOS) with antisera to components of the basement membrane (BM), type IV collagen and laminin, and with the muscle antibodies actin and muscle-specific actin.
(9) By means of hybridization of nucleic acid, we detected DNA specific for papilloma virus, type 6a, in a caruncle papilloma of a 45-year-old female patient suffering from genital warts.
(10) Yet experience has disclosed an obstacle to understanding the relationship between cervical cancer and OC use--cervical cancer may be caused by the human papilloma virus transmitted by sexual intercourse.
(11) The authors report two cases of large, vascular choroid plexus papillomas that were detected at birth and surgically excised shortly thereafter.
(12) A case of malignant choroid plexus papilloma (choroid plexus carcinoma) originated in the third ventricle is reported.
(13) As human papilloma virus type 5 is known to have malignant potential, clinicians should be on the lookout for these banal-looking and distinctly non-warty lesions in renal transplant recipients.
(14) To examine the basis for such changes, we have transformed the rat fibroblast cell line FR3T3 with the oncogenes c-Ha-ras EJ, v-mycOK10, v-src, polyoma virus middle T or the transforming bovine papilloma virus 1 (BPV1), and measured the sialytransferase activities of cellular lysates.
(15) Two major questions regarding nasal papilloma are the probability for lesion recurrence after surgical excision and the risk for malignant transformation.
(16) Human papilloma virus (HPV) genital infections are sexually transmitted and often found among young women.
(17) Inverted papillomas are uncommon lesions in the nose and paranasal sinuses, especially in the pediatric age group.
(18) Negatively stained virions purified from papilloma homogenates by isopycnic CsCl centrifugation were 55 nm in diameter and had typical papillomavirus morphology.
(19) The ability to induce papillomas with a known probability of conversion to carcinomas will facilitate the identification of markers associated with malignant progression.
(20) Cutaneous horns (hyperkeratotic papillomas) were on mucocutaneous junctions of one animal.