Leiomyosarcoma is the second most common primary retroperitoneal tumor in adults.
Retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma exhibits three major growth patterns: (a) completely …

Helicobacter pylori, strain 26695, has a circular genome of 1,667,867 base pairs and 1,590
predicted coding sequences. Sequence analysis indicates that H. pylori has well-developed …

Meta-analytic methods were used to integrate the findings of a sample of Monte Carlo
studies of the robustness of the F test in the one- and two-factor fixed effects ANOVA models. …

Background: The 1.83 Megabase (Mb) sequence of the Haemophilus influenzae chromosome,
the first completed genome sequence of a cellular life form, has been recently reported. …

The authors studied the hypothesis that oncocytoma and adenocarcinoma of the kidney can
be differentiated with computed tomographic (CT) criteria and that differences would …

Von Hippel-Lindau disease is a multisystem disorder predisposing to renal cysts and cancer.
The growth and development of these renal lesions have not been documented previously. …

Conclusions Percutaneous vertebroplasty has only recently been introduced as a treatment
for osteolytic lesions and osteoporotic compression fractures of the vertebrae, but early …

Paragangliomas of the retroperitoneum arise from specialized neural crest cells distributed
along the aorta in association with the sympathetic chain. In order to ascertain characteristic …

Malignant germ cell tumors are the most common malignant ovarian neoplasms in girls and
young women. The most well known of these neoplasms are dysgerminoma, immature …

Primary extragonadal germ cell tumors (EGCTs) of the retroperitoneum are rarely encountered.
In most cases, they arise from remnants of the genital ridge, whereas the majority of …