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30th December 2013

Neuroendocrine Tumour of the Prostate: A Rare Variant

About 95% of prostate cancers are adenocarcinomas. Neuroendocrine differentiation (NED) is seen in virtually all cases of prostatic carcinoma…
EMJ
30th December 2013

Multiplex Urinary Tests for Bladder Cancer Diagnosis

The development of accurate and reliable molecular assays that could diagnose bladder cancer would be of significant benefit to both patients and…
EMJ
30th December 2013

Lower Pole Calyceal Stone and Lithotripsy are Issues with Clearance Fact or Reality?

The lower pole calyceal (LPC) stone continues to be an enigma. The complex anatomy of the lower pole collecting system, along with other factors like…
EMJ
30th December 2013

Female Sexual Dysfunctions and Urogynecological Disorders

Female sexual dysfunctions are a highly prevalent and often-underestimated health problem and include disorders of sexual desire, arousal, orgasm…
30th December 2013

Surgical Treatment for Partially Accommodative Esotropia Associated with a High Accommodative Convergence/ Accommodation Ratio

Partially accommodative esotropia, associated with a high accommodative convergence/accommodation (AC/A) ratio, is an acquired strabismus characterised…
30th December 2013

In Vivo Corneal Confocal Microscopy and Endothelial Surgery

Lamellar endothelial surgery has gained increasing popularity in the last decade. This surgery is generally considered less invasive and allows faster…
30th December 2013

Living and Coping with Strabismus as an Adult

Despite much research on the psychosocial impact of adult strabismus, some employing standardised measures, coping seems poorly delineated.
30th December 2013

Can Periodic Surveillance for Metastases Improve Clinical Outcome in Uveal Melanoma? Moving Towards International Guidelines

Uveal melanoma is a rare disease with a predominant propensity for liver metastasis. Prognosis in the metastatic setting is poor, and no treatments…
EMJ
29th December 2013

Towards a Standardised Method to Acquire and Store Liver Samples and Guidelines to Improve Quality Control and Exchange of Relative Expression Data

The current ‘state-of-the-art’ molecular techniques are extremely sensitive and consequently prone to false results. Even more so than in the past…
EMJ
29th December 2013

Viral Proteins Mediate Upregulation of Negative Regulatory Factors Causing Down-Modulated Dendritic Cell Functions In Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Stunted cellular immune response against a narrow range of epitopes is the hallmark of chronic hepatitis C infection, but the underneath molecular…