While the mucosa of the gallbladder appeared unremarkable, an expansile neoplasm had infiltrated the full thickness of the wall. |
Airway compression is common in children with expansile pneumonia caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. |
The resected mass was greatly expansile, but there was no evidence of local invasion or distant metastasis. |
The authors propose that the muscles that close off each end of the pufferfish's expansile stomach are the most energetically demanding, and tire after several inflation events. |
Through the action of a number of muscles, the rib cage, which is semirigid but expansile, increases its size. |
Microscopically, the tumor nodules were unencapsulated and had a well-defined expansile margin that compressed the adjacent hepatic parenchyma. |