Management of Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma
I Initial Assessment of the Thyroid Nodule (indicating risk of malignancy) Size more than 1 cm Recent increase in size Associated symptoms: dysphagia, hoarseness of voice, local pain, stredor, dyspnoea, systemic symptoms suggestive of metastatic disease. Age less than ten or more than 60 yrs Male sex Family history of thyroid cancer, breast cancer or […]
Load-less Travel on the Road to Fluency
Will discarding the emotional baggage of stammering and the new-found joys of fluency lead to effortless speech? Ajit Harisinghani describes how it can! Having worked with young adults who stammer for over 25 years, chaperoning many up the slippery road to speech fluency, I, like many of my colleagues, have taken my cases through a […]
Liquid Based Cytology
Conventional cytology lacks precision due to one or more of the following reasons, Pap smears/FNACĀ are admixed with mucus/blood. Multilayering of cells obscures diagnostic fields. Cellular morphology very often changes during collection and transport to the laboratory.(Atrophied cellularity) Body Fluids (likeĀ CSF) with low cellularity when processed with centrifugation techniques often give negative results. Pap smears are […]
Laser Treated Teeth
All forms of light are electromagnetic waves of varying lengths. It is this āwave lengthā which determines the colour of the light. Laser light is an artificial form of light, and all its waves are identical (that is to say, of the same wave length and phase). Laser light does not disperse in the way […]
Income Tax tips to Healthcare Professionals
The friend of a mathematician saw him out of the office of a tax consultant. What are you doing here? asked the friend. The Professor replied, Arranging for them to do my income tax. You? The friend said You are a professor of mathematics, Do you mean to say that you cant file your own […]
In Vitro Model Systems in Neurotoxicity Assessment
Nervous system, a complex organ system in terms of both structure and function, is unique in that way that the neurons are not capable of regeneration after lethal damage, thus rendering the nervous system particularly vulnerable to any toxic insult. Any adverse effect on the chemistry, structure and function of the nervous system during development […]
Imaging of Orbital Cysticercosis
Cysticercosis is considered the most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system. It also affects the eye, skeletal muscle and subcutaneous tissue. The extaocular muscle form is the most common type of orbital cysticercosis. In the ocular form, the favoured sites are the vitreous and subretinal space.1 Human cysticercosis is caused by larval form […]
Hematuria
Definition ā Blood in urine. Itās either microscopic or macroscopic. Types of hematuria 1.Ā Microscopic:Ā Urine appears normal, blood can be discovered on ādipstickā testing. Or, Microscopy of midstream urine (MSU) specimen: by finding > 3 RBCs /Ā HPFĀ of spun urine. 2.Macroscopic:Ā frank ā gross: Pink, red, or tea-colored urine. Always abnormal. Isolated hematuria on dipstick testing of urine […]
Help Available for Adults/Children Who Stammer
Case History 1 Mohan, a 24 years old electronics engineer, has been stammering ever since he can remember. The eldest son in his family, Mohan had a bad time at school because his speech was the focus of many unkind taunts from his classmates. As he entered college, he became an emotional loner and his […]
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST) GISTs form the largest category of primary, nonepithelial ,neoplasms of gastrointestinal tract(GIT).They can be defined as neoplasms derived from pluripotent mesenchymal cells ofĀ GITĀ capable of either partial or terminal differentiation along a variety of cell lines. Classification: Group 1:Ā Form the largest category, composed of tumours showing differentiation towards smooth muscle cells Arise […]
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