2016, Volume 23, Issue 3

Pheochromocytomas (Pheos) and paragangliomas (Pgls) are rare neuroendocrine tumors, with the same embriologic origin. Based on WHO classification, chromaffin tumors of the adrenal medulla are called Pheos, whereas tumors arising from extra-adrenal chromaffi n cells, along the autonomous nervous chains, […]

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Worldwide, cancer is the second leading cause of death, following heart disease, accounting for 23% of all deaths. Although most cancers causing death are carcinomas of lung, prostate and breast, primary malignancy of the bone is ranked as the third […]

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Vitamin D is a secosteroid with a pivotal role in the calcium and phosphate metabolism, two ions that are essential for bone mineralization, neuromuscular activity and general cell functions. Sources of vitamin D are either endogenous (production in the skin […]

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Despite the constant technological advances achieved during the past decades, large size benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) pathology continues to raise questions concerning the most appropriate therapeutic approach. Interestingly enough, the classical open prostatectomy still represents the standard option for this […]

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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is responsible for 25% of all childhood cancers. The outcome has dramatically changed during the last decades, reaching an overall survival rate of approximately 80% in high-income countries and lower rates in low and middle-income countries […]

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Echocardiography is the first cardiac imaging technique used to evaluate patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). However, in the absence of wall motion abnormalities, conventional echocardiography at rest provides little information. Patients presenting with low risk ACS usually have […]

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