Cranioplasty is a surgical intervention aiming to re-establish the integrity of skull defects. Autologous bone and different heterologous materials are used for this purpose, with various reported related complications. The aim of the study was to evaluate the complication rate in a multicentric cohort of patients underwent porous hydroxyapatite…[Read more]

In conclusion, expression of FOXD4 may be a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker in COAD.We investigated the clinicopathologic features, immunophenotype, (differential) diagnosis, pathogenesis, treatment, and follow-up of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) combined with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). A retrospective analysis of the clinical and…[Read more]

Emerging evidence has shown that aberrantly expressed long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a vital role in various biological processes of tumorigenesis. Bladder cancer associated transcript 1 (BLACAT1) is a novel lncRNA located on chromosome 1q32.1, which regulated multiple downstream targets via serving as a “sponge” for their corresponding…[Read more]