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    Giant Cell Tumors

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    enchondromas, osteochondromas, and chondromyxoid fibromas [1]. Giant cell tumors (GCT), chondroblastomas, osteoid osteomas, and osteoblastomas also occur. Non-neoplastic conditions include intraosseous lipomas, simple (unicameral) bone cysts, and aneurysmal bone cysts [2]. GCT, also known as osteoclastomas, are fairly common bone tumors, accounting for 5% of all primary bone tumors. They are benign tumors with a tendency for local aggressiveness and high rates of recurrence. The most common…

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    therapeutic or prescription diets, nutritional therapy, and disciplines. Bone disorders that can be treated with these methods for example are bone cysts, panosteitis, and metabolic bone disease.…

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    Brine Shrimp Hypothesis

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    Discussion: The purpose of this experiment was to observe the effects that salinity content had on the possible hatching successes of brine shrimp nauplii. It was also used in order to find the optimal salinity content and if that content was of high concentration, or that of a lower concentration. It was predicted that the Artemia spp would be much more positively affected, with higher percentages of live nauplii hatchings, in the water containing the lower amount of salinity content. The…

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    Name: Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease AKA: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) – Common Organ: Cysts form in the proximal convoluted tubules, Bowman’s capsule and collecting ducts of the kidneys. With time, the cysts enlarge. Patients can also present with cysts in the liver, pancreas, lungs, spleen, ovaries, seminal vesicles, testes, epididymis, thyroid, uterus, and bladder. Labs: Proteinuria (50% of patients), azotemia, hematuria, anemia Signs and Symptoms: Abdominal and…

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    Polycystic Kidney Disease

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    What is Polycystic Kidney Disease and how does it affect our lives ? Polycystic Kidney Disease also known as (PKD) which is an inherited disorder in which clusters of cysts develop in the kidneys (mayoclinic.org). PKD was discovered in the early 1800’s.Some symptoms of this disorder is headaches, side or back pain, blood in the urine , bladder infections, high blood pressure, kidney failure, and many more. Theses symptoms may be treatable by stop smoking , eat a better diet such as low sodium…

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    Hydatid Essay

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    It may be due to the little number of cases found for the study. Normally most of the patients with primary hydatid disease have single organ involvement6 , as was observed in this study. Moreover, cysts were seen only in right lobe of liver as was observed by Mirshemirani A6 and Montazeri V.7 There are many published reviews on adult hydatid disease and a guideline about it has been given by WHO. However, there are very few reports on hydatid disease…

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    000 US cases per year, Usually an adult-onset disease, ADPKD occurs in individuals and families of different races equally, all over the world. ADPKD causes numerous fluid filled cysts to form in both of the kidneys. As it progresses, the cysts slowly replace most of the normal mass of the kidneys. When this occurs, the cysts often reduce kidney function, which can lead to failure. In most cases, ADPKD takes several years before it causes the kidneys to fail. When this happens, the patient will…

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    confused with other brain disorder which has made it hard for doctors to know how many people are affected with neurocysticercosis. At minimum there are 5 million cases of it. The best way to prove a person has neurocysticercosis is the ghostly image of a cyst that can be found in a brain scan and also the presence of the antibodies against tapeworms. Normally when a person gets tapeworms it comes from an animal then it…

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    Adenoma Case Study

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    first, which can be initially mistaken for freckles. Some of the more significant findings for TSC include subependymal giant-cell astrocytomas, hepatic cysts and hepatic angiomyolipomas (AMLs), sclerotic and hypertrophic lesions of the bone, cardiac rhabdomyomas, retinal astrocytomas, autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease, isolated renal cysts, angiomyolipomas, and renal cell carcinomas. Additional dermatological findings include pitting of the dental enamel and gingival fibromas.…

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    American Cancer Society (2016) having a round and moveable lump that is tender to touch may suggest that the lump is a cyst. Cyst can be found in women of any age and they are due to monthly hormonal changes that occur in women and they are most noticeable before a women’s menstrual cycle and disappear after. This is why also the attribute “timing” is important to ask. The larger the cyst become the more painful they are (cancerous lumps are less likely to be painful). Being round and moveable…

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