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a small lobe or subdivision of a lobe

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Usually, the CT of the orthotopic pancreas creates a soft tissue-like appearance that mimics similar contours and lobulation features and similarly enhances the mesentery longitudinal axis (4,6).
(a) Normal lobulation with clear outlines, normal cells with visible outlines, and single nuclei.
MRI imaging for MPNST demonstrate irregularly shaped, ill-defined margins, intratumoral lobulation, and inhomogeneous contrast enhancement [12].
CT scans showed solitary, well-defined, round or oval masses, with lobulation ( n = 11), calcification ( n = 7), or aerial semilunar sign ( n = 1) [Figure 1].
They observed that shallow lobulation, protruding to the renal sinus, thin walls, and partitions without nodules, favored CN and net growth in the cortical and nephrographic phase, thick walls, nodules, and higher enhancement after contrast media administration indicated a higher possibility of MCRCC.
(2,4-6) And yet others offer a more relaxed definition: "a constriction greater than one half to two-thirds of the nuclear breadth as adequate evidence of lobulation and classify such cells as polymorphoneuclear." (7)
Patient related factors may include preoperative infection or fistula, multiple tracts, skin involvement by the cyst, previous surgical intervention and lobulation of the cyst.
It was homogenous cream-gray, with fine lobulation on the cut section.
The descriptors which were considered suspicious were A: size more than 10 mm; B: absence of fatty hilum; C: hypoechoic internal echo; D: circular shape; E: sharply demarcated border compared with surrounding fatty tissue; F: cortical thickening with eccentric lobulation of hypoechoic cortical rim [12-14].
A combination of cell size, myeloperoxidase staining and nuclear lobulation was used to perform the total leucocyte and 6-part differential count.
On imaging, normal thymus shows the following features: absence of rounded soft-tissue masses >7 mm; absence of a convex contour/soft-tissue lobulation of the thymus after age 19 years and normal thymic thickness (should be <18 mm before 20 years of age and <13 mm after 20 years of age).
Atrophy of glomeruli with massive lobulation and fragmentation of capillary tufts along with mononuclear infiltration and increased urinary spaces were observed in kidneys of birds in groups 1 and 3 (Fig.