Sentence examples for gross enlargement from inspiring English sources

Despite an initial reduction in tumor size and clinical improvement in her neurologic exam, she re-presented a year after surgery with gross enlargement of her spinal tumor and CSF dissemination with metastasis to her brain.

We cannot exclude the possibility of ectopic expression below the level of detection of this technique, but our data strongly suggest that the variation in expression of these genes, which are principally expressed in the labyrinth zone, is not due to a gross enlargement or reduction of the labyrinth zone with respect to the other layers.

Local intrahepatic tumour recurrence appeared in three patterns: nodular, halo, or gross enlargement.

The vehicle-treated group showed gross enlargement of spleens, or splenomegaly a clinical symptom of advanced disease, when compared to the PBOX-6-treated group, with a 3.7-fold increase in weight from 163.3±39.51 to 608.7±105.3 mg (P-value: 0.0027,**).

The most striking feature of the usual MRI changes is the globoid appearance of the first part of the oculomotor nerve on emerging from the midbrain, indicating a gross localized enlargement of the nerve, consistent with intraneural edema as reported in some experimental demyelinating neuropathy and in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) [28].

The sections were examined under a light microscope and the subjects were only included if the infusion cannulae tracts terminated bilaterally in the hippocampus and there was no damage to adjacent brain structure or gross ventricular enlargement.

Results showed that PBOX-6 significantly impeded tumour growth while also preventing gross spleen enlargement when compared to mice receiving vehicle injections.

The Alb cre mediated inactivation of a floxxed Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) gene results in the massive expansion of a periportal, CK2 positive cell population, variously called oval cells (Benhamouche et al, 2010) or biliary epithelial 'hamartomas' (Zhang et al, 2010); this results in gross liver enlargement with the subsequent development of HCC, CC or tumours of mixed histology.

Fewer hNAG-1 mice have skin lesions, spleen enlargement and gross liver lesions compared to WT littermates (Supplementary Tables 1 and 2).

All stressors caused similar gross morphological defects, including slight liver enlargement, failure to inflate their swim bladder and moderate reduction in head and eye size, although larvae treated with 0.75 μg/ml Tg appeared more severely affected than those treated with Tm or BFA (Fig. 1A).

We predicted that, in addition to the behavioural phenotype, early MIA would be 'worse' than later MIA in terms of gross brain anatomical disruption leading to ventricular enlargement.