Gallbladder neuroendocrine tumour - an accidental discovery ANGELESCU, Gabriela; FLORESCU, Victor; ANGELESCU, Mihai T.
Archives of the Balkan Medical Union : the official journal of the Balkan Medical Union,
6/2021, Volume:
56, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
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Introduction. Primary neuroendocrine tumours of the gallbladder represent 0.2% of all neuroendocrine tumours. The diagnosis is incidental in most cases. Case report. We present the case of a male ...patient, with no significant personal pathological history, who presented for pain in the right hypochondrium with posterior irradiation. The abdominal ultrasound examination performed at presentation in the emergency room described an acute lithiasis cholecystitis. Laparoscopic surgery proved difficult due to adhesions and difficulties in grasping the gallbladder. The results of the histopathological examination established the diagnosis of a small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma, confirmed by the immunohistochemical tests. Conclusions. In most cases of primary neuroendocrine tumours of the gallbladder the paraclinical examinations suggest a benign disease. The positive diagnosis is done after surgery, by histopathological examination, which can change the postoperative therapeutic management.
This paper presents an astroclimatological study of meteorological data on relative humidity, dew-point temperature, air temperature, wind speed and barometric air pressure recorded at four Romanian ...locations (Baisoara, Rosia Montana, Semenic, Ceahlau) and the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) located at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos (ORM), on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.
Long-term trends of microclimates are compared in order to identify site-to-site variations. We performed this analysis as part of a site testing campaign aimed at finding the best location for the establishment of a small Cherenkov telescope in Romania. The conditions at the Romanian sites are compared with those of the Canary Islands considered as a reference.
A statistical approach is used for data analysis. Monthly and annual samples are extracted from series of raw data for night-time, day-time and entire-day intervals. For each of these samples, the median values, the standard deviations and the percentages of time when the weather conditions were suitable for the safe operation of a Cherenkov telescope are computed. The distributions of these medians, standard deviations and percentages are analysed in this paper.
Significant differences are found between the Romanian sites and the NOT site. The comparison of the Romanian locations indicates Baisoara to be the best site for the establishment of the telescope, closely followed by Rosia Montana. As these two sites are both located in the Apuseni Mountains, we consider this area to be the optimal place for performing astronomical observations in Romania.
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Cross sections for semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions (π±) from both proton and deuteron targets were measured for 0.2<x<0.5, 2<Q2<4 GeV2, 0.3<z<1, and Pt2<0.2 GeV2. For Pt<0.1 GeV, we ...find the azimuthal dependence to be small, as expected theoretically. For both π+ and π−, the Pt dependence from the deuteron is found to be slightly weaker than from the proton. In the context of a simple model, this implies that the initial transverse momenta width of d quarks is larger than for u quarks and, contrary to expectations, the transverse momentum width of the favored fragmentation function is larger than the unfavored one.
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A large data set of charged-pion (pi+/-) electroproduction from both hydrogen and deuterium targets has been obtained spanning the low-energy residual-mass region. These data conclusively show the ...onset of the quark-hadron duality phenomenon, as predicted for high-energy hadron electroproduction. We construct several ratios from these data to exhibit the relation of this phenomenon to the high-energy factorization ansatz of electron-quark scattering and subsequent quark-->pion production mechanisms.
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A large set of cross sections for semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions (π±) from both proton and deuteron targets was measured. The data are in the deep-inelastic scattering region with ...invariant mass squared W2 > 4 GeV2 and range in four-momentum transfer squared 2 < Q2 < 4 (GeV/c)2, and cover a range in the Bjorken scaling variable 0.2 < x < 0.6. The fractional energy of the pions spans a range 0.3 < z < 1, with small transverse momenta with respect to the virtual-photon direction, Pt2 < 0.2 (GeV/c)2. The invariant mass that goes undetected, Mx or W', is in the nucleon resonance region, W' < 2 GeV. The new data conclusively show the onset of quark-hadron duality in this process, and the relation of this phenomenon to the high-energy factorization ansatz of electron-quark scattering and subsequent quark → pion production mechanisms. The x, z and Pt2 dependences of several ratios (the ratios of favored-unfavored fragmentation functions, charged pion ratios, deuteron-hydrogen and aluminum-deuteron ratios for π+ and π-) have been studied. The ratios are found to be in good agreement with expectations based upon a high-energy quark-parton model description. We find the azimuthal dependences to be small, as compared to exclusive pion electroproduction, and consistent with theoretical expectations based on tree-level factorization in terms of transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution and fragmentation functions. In the context of a simple model, the initial transverse momenta of d quarks are found to be slightly smaller than for u quarks, while the transverse momentum width of the favored fragmentation function is about the same as for the unfavored one, and both fragmentation widths are larger than the quark widths.
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Encouraged by the success of the first hypernuclear spectroscopy through the
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reaction (JLab E89-009), a new improved experiment with a newly developed High resolution Kaon ...Spectrometer (HKS) and a new configuration of the electron spectrometer is planned at the JLab Hall C. The introduction of the HKS will improve by a factor of two, the energy resolution which was limited by the previous kaon spectrometer. The hypernuclear yield and the signal to noise ratio will be also improved by a factor of 50 and 10, respectively.
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Starting from systematics on the current related damage constant α(0) for Si detectors irradiated in various neutron fields, we analyze the Niel scaling of the results to 1 MeV equivalent neutrons. ...The discrepancies present in the data obtained with reactor or spallation sources need a detailed discussion regarding the energy cuts used for the fluence measurements and calculations of the hardness parameter. A more attentive approach to the interpretation of the radiation hardness data is outlined.
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