Derivation of a T2-weighted MRI ...
Objective To derive an MRI score for assessing severity, therapeutic response and prognosis in acute severe inflammatory colitis. Methods Twenty-on ...
Natural orifice translumenal en ...
Background: As an emerging surgical paradigm, NOTES is currently performed using conventional flexible endoscopes. Gastroenterologists are experts i ...
Parietal pleura lipoma: a rare ...
Lipoma is a common benign tumor of soft tissues in adults. An intrathoracic location, particularly in the parietal pleura, is rare. We report two ca ...
Management of the axilla for ip ...
The sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is the standard procedure for axillary staging in patients with primary breast cancer. Of these patients, 10–1 ...
A practical approach to imaging ...
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is believed to benefit patients by primarily correcting heterogeneity in regional ventricular mechanical con ...
Arthroscopic autologous chondro ...
Purpose Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) in the ankle has become an established procedure to treat osteochondral lesions. However, a non-in ...
The effect of two phototherapy ...
Phototherapy with low-level coherent light (laser) has been reported as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory as well as having a positive effect in ti ...
Clinical and Radiographic Impro ...
Background Cerebral fat embolism is a well-described complication associated with long-bone fracture. However, with contemporary imaging, there is a ...
Asymmetric chorea as presenting ...
Chorea is an involuntary movement disorder characterized by irregular, brief movements that flow from one body part to another in a non-stereotyped ...
Occurrence and Care of an Obese ...
Propofol is a widely used, short-acting intravenous anesthetic agent which has a barbiturate-like and benzodiazepinelike suppressing effect via the ...
Levothyroxine Absorption in Mor ...
Background Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) modifies the anatomical structure of the upper intestine tract, reduces gastric acid secretion, and may i ...
Prevalence of vitamin D deficie ...
Summary Vitamin D status of nonwestern immigrants in Europe was poor. Vitamin D status of nonwestern populations in their countries of origin varied ...
‘Sink or swim’: an evaluation o ...
Summary High bone mineral density on routine dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) may indicate an underlying skeletal dysplasia. Two hundred fifty ...
Left Atrial Myxoma in a Child w ...
We present a 16-year-old girl who presented with chest pain. Given her obesity and positive family history, she was felt to have atherosclerotic hea ...
Clinical outcome and occurrence ...
Acute idiopathic tubulointerstitial nephritis (TIN) is considered a condition with a good long-term prognosis. However, there is evidence that some ...
Significance of epiphyseal cart ...
Background Epiphyseal cartilage enhancement defects (ED) may occur in the setting of epiphyseal osteomyelitis (OM), and its significance is uncertai ...
Increased production and recove ...
Although plant cell cultures can be used to produce a variety of proteins, the instability and degradation of secreted proteins hinders product recov ...
Involvement of the Toxic AGEs ( ...
Diabetic vascular complications are leading causes of acquired blindness, end-stage renal failure, a variety of neuropathies, and accelerated atheros ...
Live Cell-Based Sensor Devices
Living cells maintain life functions by responding quickly and with great sensitivity to changes in the external environment. Consequently, sensors u ...
In Vitro Interaction of 5-Hydro ...
Problem statement: The role of 5-HT has been investigated in many behavioral activities. Thus, studies using raphe lesion showed that 5-HT is involve ...
Comparative hospital databases: ...
Objectives-To establish an accurate and reliable comparative database of discharge abstracts and to appraise its value for assessments of quality o ...
Polymorphism of Cytokine Genes ...
With the goal of studying the moleculargenetics bases of human longevity, we genotyped an eth nically homogenous sampling of people (Tatars from th ...
Multimodality imaging findings ...
Littoral cell angioma (LCA) is a rare primary splenic vascular tumor arising from the littoral cells that line the splenic sinuses of the red pulp. ...
Von Hippel–Lindau disease manif ...
We report the case of a 46-year-old man with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease, manifesting disseminated leptomeningeal hemangioblastomatosis. The pat ...
Positive correlations between t ...
Purpose Cancer patients are prone to clinical malnutrition; moreover, the energy expenditure in patients with certain cancers is higher than that in ...