(1) We present the case of a 59-year-old white man with a large expansile amyloidoma at the base of the skull.
(2) Enlargement of the ocular choroid crescent is an unusual angiographic finding and can be seen with intraocular expansile lesions such as unilateral axial high myopia with posterior staphyloma.
(3) A 38-year-old woman presented with an expansile lesion of the sternum.
(4) The cases of 5 children with expansile lesions of the skull vault due to both benign and malignant primary bone lesions are described.
(5) Cholesterol granulomas and cholesteatomas are expansile, destructive lesions of the petrous apex that occur more frequently than we previously realized.
(6) Metastases typically appeared expansile and mixed lytic-sclerotic on radiographs.
(7) Symptoms were correlated with both site and compressive changes due to expansile growth.
(8) All FB1-treated rats that died or were killed from 18 months onwards suffered from a micro- and macronodular cirrhosis and had large expansile nodules of cholangiofibrosis at the hilus of the liver.
(9) On CT, all the lesions were expansile and circumscribed by a thick bony wall.
(10) Since ossifying fibroma is a well encapsulated and expansile benign bone neoplasm, surgical enucleation appears to be the treatment of choice; recurrence is rare.
(11) This report describes a patient with familial hypercholesterolemia who had two unusual manifestations of foamy histiocytic accumulation: a maxillary sinus xanthoma, which presented as an expansile mass, and diffuse bone marrow replacement with foamy histiocytes, which was associated with myelophthisic anemia.
(12) However, the centrifugal expansile growth pattern, characterized by a thick fibrous capsule, hyalinized fibrous septa, and, frequently, cystic degenerative changes in EGEP gastrinomas should alert the pathologist to the probability that these neoplasms are primary.
(13) Typical CT finding of POMC was an expansile and homogeneous soft tissue mass with bone erosion.
(14) These macular changes are previously unreported in patients or monkeys undergoing intravitreal injection of expansile gases.
(15) We estimated the expansile force of the stent not only by P but also by F, the degree of embedding into the vessel wall defined as force per unit length of wire.
(16) A 7-year-old black male presented with a lytic, expansile lesion of the calcaneus.
(17) MR was abnormal in all cases and in 23 of 25 (92%) demonstrated an intraspinal expansile lesion.
(18) Nowadays expansile force of self-expandable metallic stent is estimated by only wall-distending pressure P. We estimated the expansile force of the stent by not only P but also F. F expressed the degree of digging into the vessel wall and was defined as a force per one unit length of wire.
(19) Two cases of carcinoma of the breast are reported with the unusual radiographic finding of expansile osteolytic bone metastases.
(20) Computed tomography proved best for demonstrating an expansile soft tissue mass with bony destruction.
Expansive
Definition:
(a.) Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surprisingly, the clonal elimination of V beta 6+ cells is preceded by marked expansion of these cells.
(2) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(3) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
(4) Plasma fibrinogen decreased by approximately 7% due to hemodilution caused by plasma volume expansion.
(5) To augment the in vitro expansion of LAK cells, we added highly purified human recombinant interleukin-2, phytohemagglutinin and accessory cells (Uc cells) to the LAK culture system, with which huge number of LAK cells (LAK-L) were generated from originally small number of peripheral blood lymphocytes of cancer patients.
(6) This was accompanied by a greater decrease in hematocrit in the continuous group, a finding that suggests that plasma volume expansion occurred during continuous GTN therapy.
(7) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
(8) Opsin becomes incorporated into the disk membrane by a process of membrane expansion and fusion to form the flattened disks of the outer segment.
(9) Unlike previous studies where constitutive expression of exogenous IL-6 genes resulted in lymphoproliferative disorders characterized by massive plasmacytosis, minimal plasma cell expansion occurred in the MSCV-IL-6 mice during the observation period.
(10) The hyperreninemia and hyperaldosteronism were both suppressible with volume expansion.
(11) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
(12) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(13) The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion club and will take over on 1 January, the team said.
(14) In order to delineate the critical blood flow pattern during the Cushing response in intracranial hypertension, regional cerebral blood flow was measured with radioactive microspheres in 12 anesthetized dogs at respiratory arrest caused either by expansion of an epidural supratentorial balloon or by cisternal infusion.
(15) This enhancement of laminin synthesis corresponds to the mesangial expansion and to the development of laminin-containing spike formations of the glomerular basement membrane at week 8.
(16) This study focuses on the expansion and maturation of the fatty streak in the aorta of Watanabe Heritable Hyperlipemic rabbits and comparably hypercholesterolemic fat-fed rabbits between 2 and 6 months duration of hypercholesterolemia.
(17) It is spending £68m this year to help meet this target, including further investment in its China start-up, expansion of its main UK warehouse in Barnsley, and new facilities in Berlin and Shanghai, and expansion of a warehouse in Ohio.
(18) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
(19) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(20) Subacute lead exposure has been observed to inhibit the natriuretic response to isotonic saline expansion in adult female rats.