Partial tear of the anterior cr ...
Purpose To describe rupture patterns of partial anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears on magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Methods MR images of 51 ...
Effectiveness of the erbium:YAG ...
The aim of this study was to analyze in vitro the debriding ability of an Er:YAG laser system (2,940 nm) equipped with a newly designed radial and s ...
Juguloarterial Endothelin-1 Gra ...
Background Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a potent vasoconstrictor and is thought to be responsible for secondary ischemia and vasogenic edema after traumat ...
Alzheimer’s disease: ageing-rel ...
The view that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a fatal outcome of ageing prevails over the view that it mainly affects people aged 75–95. The former is b ...
Understanding the Significance, ...
Anastomotic leaks and bleeding are the two most feared major complications in patients undergoing laparoscopic gastric bypass (LRYGB). This study wa ...
Helicobacter pylori Eradication ...
Background The high prevalence of Helicobacter pylori (HP) in our obese population undergoing Roux-en-Y bypass gastric surgery (69.4%) and the conce ...
Association of SMAD2 polymorphi ...
Summary In a candidate gene association study, we found that SMAD2 promoter alleles and haplotypes were significantly associated with bone mineral d ...
Suppression of bone turnover by ...
Summary The role of B cells in inflammatory bone formation and resorption is controversial.We investigated this in patients with rheumatoid arthriti ...
From Other Journals Journal Re ...
In this study, the authors hypothesized that early goaldirected monitoring with venous oximetry and near-infrared spectroscopy would offset the incr ...
HIV-associated nephropathy in t ...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) is most frequently seen as a late manifestation in adult patients with a high vira ...
Hemangiomas revisited: the usef ...
Hemangiomas are common vascular tumors occurring in children. Though most of the lesions present in infants and young children with a typical appear ...
Characterization of enthalpic e ...
Protein adsorption can be either endothermic or exothermic depending upon the protein, the sorbent and process conditions. In the case of protein ads ...
The Macrophage Stimulating Prot ...
Macrophage Stimulating Protein (MSP) is the only known ligand for the receptor tyrosine kinase Ron. The MSP/Ron pathway is involved in several import ...
Cytotoxic Activity of CD48 Mono ...
CD48 is a cell surface, glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked glycoprotein, and a potential target for treatment of leukemia and lymphoma. Two anti-CD4 ...
Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 and ...
Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMMSCs) have the capacity for self-renewal, and differentiation into a variety of cell types. They thus represent ...
Interior point SQP strategies f ...
Successive quadratic programming (SQP) has been the method of choice for the solution of many nonlinear programming problems in process engineering. ...
Management of Macular Edema Sec ...
Retinal vein occlusions are common retinal vascular disorders with the potential for significant vision-related morbidity. Retinal vein occlusions ...
RE: Mass lesions in chronic pan ...
In a recent ‘Online First’ article in Abdominal Imaging (3 November 2010) [1], we presented current best evidence about the imaging differentiation ...
Deep brain stimulation and fram ...
Considerable positive experience in functional radiosurgery has been reported since Leksell’s first experience in 1951, but the development of frame ...
Anatomical evaluation of the ro ...
The purpose was to determine the diameter of the main root canal and wall thickness in the apical dentin in mesial roots of maxillary and mandibular ...
FDG-PET for the diagnosis of fe ...
Objective To evaluate the clinical value of 2-[18F]fluoro- 2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (FDGPET) for the diagnosis of fever of unk ...
Soy isoflavones consumption and ...
Numbers of epidemiologic studies assessing soy consumption and risk of breast cancer have yielded inconsistent results. We aimed to examine the asso ...
Image-guided sampling reveals i ...
Mammographic density (MD) adjusted for age and body mass index (BMI) is a strong heritable breast cancer risk factor; however, its biological basis ...
Two new CHEK2 germ-line variant ...
CHEK2 gene mutations occur in a subset of patients with familial breast cancer, acting as moderate/low penetrance cancer susceptibility alleles. Alt ...
Endovascular Treatment of Acute ...
Purpose This study was designed to determine the feasibility and efficacy of endovascular embolization with liquid embolic agent ethylene vinyl alco ...