(n.) A new formation or tissue, the product of morbid action.
Example Sentences:
(1) The types, frequency, and clinical features of neoplasms encountered in the perinatal period are markedly different from those observed in older children and adolescents.
(2) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(3) Of 3,837 canine neoplasms from case records at Kansas State University, only 4 were of carotid body tumors.
(4) Utilization of the immunoglobulin system is based upon the supposition that in lymphoid neoplasms with clonal origin either all or none of the tumor cells should have surface-associated IgM and kappa-reactivities.
(5) Chromosome abnormalities linked to several neoplasms have been previously associated with this region on human chromosome 14.
(6) Staplers were used and therefore the choice between resection or amputation was determined by the degree of loco-regional infiltration of the neoplasm.
(7) Frequent measurement of serum cation and appropriate replacement are recommended when high dose Cisplatin containing regimen is used in chemotherapy of neoplasms.
(8) However, the typically deep invasion of the former tumors and their histologic features indicate that they are highly aggressive neoplasms.
(9) That most of the neoplasms found were adenomas and not invasive cancer may be due to the relative youth of most of those screened.
(10) Ultrastructural differences between normal neoplasmic cells observed in this work may be the cause of the behaviour of neoplastic cells in tissue culture.
(11) We have demonstrated by electron microscopic and immunohistochemical means that these neoplasms can exhibit distinctly epithelial characteristics in their chondroid as well as their epithelial areas.
(12) A 99mTc-MDP scan was done on a patient with liver metastases from a medullary thyroid carcinoma who, in addition, had a familial history of multiple endocrine neoplasm, type 2.
(13) Two patients are described in whom Streptococcus bovis bacteremia was the only clue to the presence of a colonic neoplasm.
(14) Comparison with other neoplasms of the uterine cervix indicates that the lesion should be classified separately.
(15) The flounder developed renal and pancreatic neoplasms and hepatotoxic neoplastic precursor lesions, demonstrating trophic transfer of sediment-bound carcinogens up the food chain.
(16) Compared to related compounds, N-nitrosobis(2-hydroxypropyl)amine and N-nitrosobis(2-acetoxy-propyl)amine which are also pancreatic carcinogens, BOP induced only a few neoplasms of the lung, liver, and kidney and none in the nasal cavity, larynx, and trachea.
(17) Medullary carcinoma is an unusual malignant neoplasm.
(18) During the period of the study, 163 patients with primary intracranial neoplasms were seen and thus acoustic schwannomas accounted for 3.7%.
(19) We describe 2 additional cases, review the literature on this rare neoplasm and discuss its management.
(20) The neoplasm diagnosed as a neurinoma, was transplanted over 20 passages to 5 six-month-old Sprague-Dawley rats in each case.
Tumour
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
(2) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(3) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(4) Some S-100 reactive cells previously interpreted as tumour cells were refound in a few tumours.
(5) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
(6) Ten out of 12 (83%) tumours which had c-erbB-2 and c-erbA co-amplification had metastasised to axillary lymph nodes (P less than 0.006).
(7) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
(8) These are rare tumours comparable to abdominal desmoid tumours.
(9) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
(10) Tumour necrosis factor (TNF), a polypeptide produced by mononuclear phagocytes, has been implicated as an important mediator of inflammatory processes and of clinical manifestations in acute infectious diseases.
(11) Expression of AR was compared with that of ER and PR as well as with tumour grade and age.
(12) The risk of recurrence and progression in 170 patients presenting with pTa urothelial tumours of the bladder has been estimated so that follow-up can be rationalised.
(13) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
(14) Finally, 10 patients had an intra- and extrasellar tumour (group III).
(15) Four patients with tumours larger than 2 cm died from metastatic carcinoid.
(16) We conclude that 1H MRS has a clear role in the diagnosis and biochemical assessment of intracranial tumours and in the evaluation and monitoring of therapy.
(17) The independent but combined use of both antigens, appreciably raises the diagnostic success percentage with regard to that obtained when only one tumour marker was used.
(18) We describe 10 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: two had protein S deficiency, one had protein C deficiency, one was in early pregnancy, and there was a single case of each of the following: dural arteriovenous malformation, intracerebral arteriovenous malformation, bilateral glomus tumours, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(19) All patients in Stages I and II (5 out of 26) who developed metastases had poorly differentiated (histological Type III) tumours.
(20) Three angiographic observations showing partial mesenteric vascularisation of renal tumours were made.