(n.) A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.
Example Sentences:
(1) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
(2) The specificity of vaccinia restriction was demonstrated by the ability of myxoma virus to replicate in nonimmune and vaccinia-immune macrophages.
(3) This recently reported inherited syndrome should be recognized by pathologists because of major risk of cardiac myxoma.
(4) Myxoma virus, a Leporipoxvirus and agent of myxomatosis, was shown to possess a gene with the potential to encode an epidermal growth factorlike factor.
(5) Histologic, histochemical, immunocytochemical, and ultrastructural features of two cardiac myxomas containing glandular elements are reported.
(6) Cardiac myxomas typically present as a triad of obstructive, embolic, and constitutional symptoms and thus mimic many more common systemic illnesses.
(7) Histological examination confirmed the diagnosis of metastases of cardiac myxoma.
(8) This report documents four siblings with myxomas, and three of these patients had two or more myxomas.
(9) Resection of the myxoma corrected mitral stenosis completely.
(10) Thoracotomy revealed a fibro-angio-myxoma attached to the right side of the interatrial septum, and it was removed in toto.
(11) Analysis of the clinical material revealed that the myxoma occurred most frequently in the posterior regions of the mandible and will recur if initial therapy is too conservative.
(12) Invasive ductal carcinomas were subdivided by three categories: highly stromatous classical adenocarcinoma with poor prognosis, invasive ductal carcinoma with further differentiation (myxoma, squamous carcinoma, pleomorphous macrocellular and parvicellular types), and variations with specific differentiation (serous, mucinous tumours) with good prognosis.
(13) Maxillary myxoma is identified by the appearance of a non-inflammatory and often painless swelling which, in radiological terms, appears to have a zone of multilocular and sometimes unilocular osteolysis.
(14) One of the patients with myxoma in the left atrium has so far refused cardiosurgical treatment.
(15) We report a case of left ventricular myxoma in a 19-year-old man which presented as intermittent aortic valve obstruction.
(16) Non-invasive cardiac imaging is essential to establish the diagnosis and differentiate myxoma from the other more common illnesses it imitates.
(17) We report a successful tricuspid valve repair after en bloc resection of a myxoma involving the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve.
(18) In a 70-year-old man who had angina, exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia, and presyncopal symptoms, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography disclosed a large atrial mass that resembled a myxoma.
(19) Electron microscopy of the glandular zones, which has never been reported previously, shown cells having essential homology with the usual myxoma elements.
(20) A group of patients with cardiac myxoma who have a heritable syndrome involving skin myxomas, endocrine tumors, and lentiginosis--the complex of myxomas, spotty pigmentation, and endocrine overactivity--has been described previously.
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.