(n.) A malignant growth containing epithelial cells; -- called also epithelial cancer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Besides, it showed a high number of plasma cells secreting IgA in the stroma of the 2 tumours, the ultrastructural study performed on the epithelioma also demonstrated some similarities between epitheliomatous cells and epithelial cells of cystadenolymphomas (outlined epidermoid or glandular differentiation, numerous mitochondria).
(2) Such changes may be misinterpreted as diagnostic of basal or squamous epithelioma.
(3) Collagenase of human basal cell epithelioma was purified by sequential ammonium sulfate precipitation, Sephadex gel filtration and affinity chromatography on collagen-polyacrylamide gel.
(4) Intraepidermal epithelioma of Jadassohn is a rare cutaneous neoplasm characterized by a solitary scaly verrucous plaque.
(5) IgG-producing cells were present in variable frequency, depending on the type of tumor, and IgM-producing cells were found only in basal cell epitheliomas and squamous cell carcinomas.
(6) The authors studied the distribution of Langerhans cells in 42 cases of basal-cell epithelioma using monoclonals antibodies OKT6 and anti-HLA-Dr.
(7) The cause of free fatty bodies and the mechanism by which they turn into a widely moving calcifying epithelioma are now obscure; however, trauma may be a possible cause of these lesions.
(8) The unusual clinical course and the A-Scan sonographical findings of this tumor were most probably due to its uncommon histological features which proved to be an undifferentiated squamous cell carcinoma with features of Epithelioma metatypique intermediaire Darier.
(9) Patients with primary squamous cell epitheliomas of the oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx were stratified according to stage and site and randomized to receive either intratumoral immunotherapy with Corynebacterium parvum followed 2 weeks later by surgery and postoperative C parvum for 2 years or surgery alone.
(10) These data confirm the observation that the HaPV is the causative agent of epitheliomas, but they suggest clearly that HaPV is not the agent responsible for lymphomagenesis.
(11) Significantly elevated activites were measured in basal cell epitheliomas and in verrucae seborrhoeicae.
(12) The activities of 27 enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism and the proportions of lactate dehydrogenase isoenzymes were determined in epidermis, in superficial epitheliomas and in several solid tumours biopsied from a patient with basal-cell naevus syndrome.
(13) In 21 patients with a variety of skin tumors (squamous cell carcinomas, malignant melanomas, basal cell epitheliomas and mycosis fungoides) or pre-cancerous lesions (Bowen's disease, actinic keratosis, junctional nevus cell nevus) the radioactive phosphorus uptake test demonstrates a significantly increased concentration of P32 in those tumors.
(14) This appears to be the second documented case of a nonpigmented benign epithelioma of the iris.
(15) A pulmonary lesion from a case of nodular pulmonary amyloidosis, and cutaneous lesions from three cases of primary systemic amyloidosis, two cases of secondary systemic amyloidosis and three cases of secondary cutaneous amyloidosis following basal cell epithelioma were also examined for comparison.
(16) Numerous skin lesions: sebaceous hyperplasias, benign acanthoma, keratoacanthomas and squamous cell epitheliomas appeared on the face, especially on the nose, on the cheeks and around the lips of a 45-year-old obese man with mild diabetes.
(17) Thickened epidermis, superficial epitheliomas and some of the solid tumours presented an intermediate pattern.
(18) Three years following an irradiation by the Betatron's electron beam of an epithelioma in left parieto occipital area of the scalp in a female patient aged 77, early suffering from high blood pressure, a fatal pseudo-tumoral brain necrosis occurs presenting as a rapidly increasing from of Wernicke's aphasia.
(19) Clinically, acanthoma fissuratum is often mistaken for a basal cell epithelioma.
(20) A long time interval (16 and 43 years) elapsed between irradiation and the detection of the epitheliomas.
Tumor
Definition:
(n.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.
(n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(2) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(3) Competition with the labelled 10B12 MAb for binding to the purified antigen was demonstrated in sera of tumor-bearing and immune rats.
(4) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(5) Tumor shrinkage was documented by A-scan ultrasonography in all but one patient.
(6) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
(7) In spite of dense lymphocytic infiltration only 3% of the tumor infiltrating lymphocytes exhibit the activation marker CD 25.
(8) The histological pattern of tumor was identified in 28 cases.
(9) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(10) Among the groups investigated, the subjects with gastric tumors presented the greatest values.
(11) The tumors were identified by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
(12) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
(13) When TSLP was pretreated with TF5 in vitro, the most restorative effects on the decreased MLR were found in hyperplastic stage and the effects were becoming less with the advance of tumor developments.
(14) In all groups, there was a fall in labeling index with time reflecting increasing tumor size.
(15) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(16) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(17) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(18) The HTCA is promising as a potential tool for studying the biology of tumors.
(19) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
(20) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.