(n.) A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim of this work is to investigate the anti-comedo activity of 20% azelaic acid cream topically applied in a group of teen-agers affected by acne.
(2) On the other hand, three patients with in situ duct carcinoma (one comedo and two clinging type) developed subsequent invasive carcinoma.
(3) Aneuploidy was not significantly increased in tumours showing histological signs of greater malignancy such as cribriform-comedo type or invasive growth.
(4) Clinically, NFK appears mostly as linear and unilateral groups of dark comedo-like plugs.
(5) Our observations from thymidine labeling are consistent with a viewpoint regarding cribriform-papillary intraductal carcinoma as relatively bland, and comedo intraductal carcinoma as a distinctly more dangerous entity.
(6) Marked mucin-production and "comedo" pattern seem to be histological factors of the hyperechoic US image of adenocarcinoma.
(7) DCIS of the comedo type most often were c-erbB-2 positive and exhibited aneuploid nuclear DNA histograms.
(8) The patient had a 9-year history of multiple keratotic papules and comedo-like pits on the medial border of the left foot.
(9) All mucinous adenocarcinomas also contained other histologic patterns: microglandular (four), cribriform (three), comedo (two), solid (two), and hypernephroid (one).
(10) Tumors associated with a higher risk of remaining cancer are those of the comedo type and papillary type in terms of intraductal spread, those of the small solid alveolar type and pure scirrhous type in terms of lymphatic invasion, and those measuring 2cm or more.
(11) A micronized benzoyl peroxide, in a magnesium aluminum silicate-alcohol gel, appears to achieve dramatic objective improvement of the comedo and papular stages of acne, as well as associated seborrhea.
(12) It is suggested that comedo naevus is a hamartomatous abnormality of the hair follicle in which all layers, including the external root sheath, are involved and from which trichilemmal cysts may arise.
(13) Optical microscopical examination of serial sections showed that the tumor parenchyma was deeply seated along the boundary zone between the cutis and subcutis around the lower half of a giant comedo, and extended into the surrounding tissues from the non-keratinized epithelial portion of the giant comedo where the non-keratinized epithelium merged with the upper, keratinized epithelium.
(14) In this study we report the results obtained in the treatment of all types of acne (comedo or papulo-pustular acne).
(15) A significant association between p21 expression and tumor histotype was found: among ductal carcinomas the comedo variety was always positive; conversely, lobular tumors were more frequently negative.
(16) Diagnostic criteria for urothelial carcinoma are compact formations without stroma being sharply delineated from stroma, extensive ductal growth pattern with necroses of comedo type, high mitotic rates and perifocal inflammation.
(17) It is also suggested that the tumor may be the lobular equivalent of the ductal infiltrating Comedo carcinoma.
(18) Comedo-like lesions of the palm, present since birth, are studied electronmicroscopically and their eccrine nature demonstrated.
(19) The first skin changes appeared one year after the diagnosis was set, and they were in the form of maculopapular nodules, comedos of the closed and open type on the forehead and chin.
(20) All histologic slides from 279 patients have been reevaluated and the different tumors classified according to a modified classification system in which invasive ductal carcinoma of comedo type is distinguished from invasive tubuloductal carcinoma.
Comodo
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Example Sentences:
(1) The characteristics of comfort were: feeling integrated, functioning and normalcy, care and nurturing, security and safety, control and "comodo."
(2) It is important to note that the Hispanic patients on occasion used culturally relevant terms, such as comodo and animo (neither of which are readily translated into English) to convey their impressions of comfort.