Learn about risk factors that can raise your chances of catching the common cold, such as season, age, and lifestyle habits.

The human body has three primary lines of defense to fight against foreign invaders, including viruses, bacteria, and fungi.

Nasal discharge is prominent in sinusitis as the mucous membrane of the nose and sinuses are attached. The drainage may be cloudy or colored green or yellow, blood-tinged, thick, and foul-smelling.

The polyps themselves are distinct from healthy mucous membranes lining the nose. The goal of surgery is to remove the polyp tissue while leaving as much of the healthy mucus membranes as possible.

Plexiform fibromyxoma is a rare primary mesenchymal tumor of the gastrointestinal tract, first reported by Takahashi in 2007 and officially recognized as a subtype of gastric mesenchymal tumor by the ...

”Environmental irritants such as smoke, dust, fumes and dry air can irritate the mucous membranes, stimulating mucus production.” Certain medications or even foods, including dairy products, can also ...

The approximation of the discriminant Anderson function at a point by a linear function in the feature space used in supervised learning allows us to estimate the posterior probabilities of classes at ...

There were no false positives on cytology. Final diagnosis on histology was squamous cell carcinoma in one; carcinoma in situ in two; keratinising dysplasia in 15, non-keratinising dysplasia in seven.

Subepithelial lesions (SLEs) are often detected incidentally during endoscopic examination. They represent a heterogeneous group of lesions including non-neoplastic and neoplastic lesion, the most ...