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Objective To evaluate the differentiation diagnostic value of acoustic radiation force impulse imaging (ARFI) technique to the benign and malignant breast lesions .Methods A total of 87 breast masses in 84 patients were selected and per‐formed the routine ultrasound ,virtual touch imaging(VTI) and virtual touch quantification(VTQ) examination .The shear wave ve‐locity was obtained .The average optical density of the tumor was obtained by processing the VTI images by using the image J soft‐ware .The pathological results served as the gold standard and the ROC curve was drawn .Finally ,the significance of ARFI was e‐valuated .Results All 87 pathologically verified breast tumors included 31 malignant lesions and 56 benign lesions .In malignant le‐sions ,there were 21 lesions with VTQ value≥3 .49(threshold value) and 10 lesions with VTQ value<3 .49 .In benign lesions ,there were 3 lesions with VTQ value≥3 .49 and 53 lesions with VTQ value<3 .49 .In malignant lesions ,there were 28 lesions with the mean optical density value≥202 .25(threshold value) and 3 lesions with the mean optical density value<202 .25 .In benign lesions , there were 6 lesions with the mean optical density value≥202 .25 and 50 lesions with the mean optical density value<202 .25 .There were statistically significant differences in the shear wave velocity measured by VTQ and average optical density measured by VTI between malignant and benign lesions(P=0 .000) .The sensitivity ,specificity ,positive predictive value ,negative predictive value ,ac‐curacy rate and Youden index of conventional ultrasound were 96 .8% ,67 .8% ,62 .5% ,97 .4% ,78 .2% ,0 .645 ,respectively ;which for ARFI were 93 .5% ,98 .2% ,96 .7% ,96 .5% ,96 .6% and 0 .917 ,respectively .Conclusion The ARFI is superior to the conven‐tional ultrasound in the specificity and accuracy rate in diagnosing breast tumor .
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Objective To explore the effect of morphine hydrochloride on growth accumulated degree hour(ADH)and cephalopharyngeal skeleton of larvae of Parasarcophaga crassipalpis under natural condition, and to prove the feasibility of predicting the postmortem interval(PMI)using ADH and the shape indexes of cephalopharyngeal skeleton. Methods The larvae of Parasarcophaga crassipalpis were fed under natural condition with rabbit meat injected with morphine hydrochloride before death. The larvae were collected at 12 h intervals until the end of the stage(the larvae did not eat any more). The larvae were fixed in boiling water and were stored as specimen. The average daily temperature during the experiment was calculated for ADH. Then the cephalopharyngeal skeletons were isolated, observed, and then photographed under light mircoscope. Finally the morphology of the cephalopharyngeal skeleton was analyzed by digital image processing system. Results (1)Under natural conditions, the ADH was changed by morphine hydrochloride to a certain degree.(2)The area of the cephalopharyngeal skeleton maintained at a certain level when entered the third instar. The sclerotized area and the average optical density of the cephalopharyngeal skeleton were increased with the increase of ADH till the end of the third instar. The ADH that the sclerotized area and the average optical density reached the maximum was obviously higher than the one that the area of the cephalopharyngeal skeleton reached the maximum. Conclusion Morphine hydrochloride can obviously change the growth ADH of larvae of Parasarcophaga crassipalpis under natural conditions. The sclerotized areas and the average optical densities of the pharyngeal sclerite of the larvae show a good linearity with ADH till the end of the third instar, which can deduce PMI when combined together.
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Objective To investigate expression and significance of decorin(DCN)in liver tissue and serum of liver transplant patients with chronic rejection(CR).Methods Immunohistochemistry(SP method)was used to detect expression of DCN in liver tissue of 16 normal controls, 20 patients with cirrhosis, 46 liver translantion patients without CR and 8 patients with CR.Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method(ELISA method)was used to determined the content of DCN in serum of all research subjects.Results The expression of DCN was negative in normal hepatic tissues and with/without CR, cirrhosis tissues showed strong expression of DCN.The positive expression rate and the average optical density value of DCN in liver transplant tissues with CR had significant difference comparing with Cirrhosis tissues(25% vs 55%, 0.1249 ±0.0039 vs 0.2357 ±0.0396, P <0.01,while no statistic siqnificance compared to normal liver tissues and those without CR.The level of DCN in serum was significantly higher in liver transplant patients with CR, with significant difference comparing with normal people, liver cirrhosis and transplant liver patients without CR(54.0833 ± 6.0325)μg/L vs(1.0232 ± 0.9105)μg/L,(12.6202 ± 1.5370)μg/L,(17.7102 ± 2.3562)μg/L, P < 0.01).The concentration of DCN in serum showed a positive correlation with the degree of CR.Conclusions DCN showed negative expression in liver tissue and increased significantly in serum of liver transplantation patients with CR.This suggests that DCN may be involved in occurrence and development of CR.At the same time the determination of DCN in serum maybe become an important indicator of the early diagnosis, development and prognosis of CR for liver transplant patients.