HLA-A and breast cancer in West ...
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among females in Malaysia. Attempts have been made to investigate the association between breast cancer ...
Detection of a new embryonic an ...
ESA-10 is an embryonic antigen expressed by tumor cells. A method to detect the antigen in the blood based on alterations in the erythrocyte sedimen ...
Clinical significance of the im ...
The aim of this paper was to determine the clinical significance of the MHC class I chain-related molecule A(MICA) and NKG2D receptor on NK cells in ...
Education, economic status and ...
Diet and lifestyle related to socioeconomic status emerged as risk factors for gastric cancer in several studies. However, the results were not alwa ...
The association between interle ...
Relationship of gastric cancer with the presence of IL-10-592 polymorphism was reported with inconsistent results. The objective of this study was t ...
Combination of simvastatin and ...
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a hematological malignancy, 95% of which is due to translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22 and the resulting bc ...
Role of Endothelin-1 in Human A ...
Background Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a potent vasoconstrictor implicated in the pathogenesis of vasospasm and delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) in aneury ...
Impact of Percutaneous Translum ...
Background Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) has been introduced for treatment of symptomatic cerebral vasospasm in patients with subarach ...
Consistent Changes in Intracran ...
Background Intracranial pressure (ICP) remains a pivotal physiological signal for managing brain injury and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) patients i ...
Serial MRI Changes in Comatose ...
Background Neuroimaging may prove useful in identifying cardiac arrest patients destined for a poor recovery, as certain patterns have been associat ...
Electric Versus Manual Tooth Br ...
Background Poor oral hygiene has been associated with ventilator-acquired pneumonia. Yet providing oral care for intubated patients is problematic. ...
Chronic cerebro-spinal venous i ...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the CNS caused by the interplay of genetic and environmental factors. In the las ...
Oxygen cost of treadmill and ov ...
Walking impairment is a ubiquitous feature of multiple sclerosis (MS) and the O2 cost of walking might quantify this dysfunction in mild MS. This pa ...
Seizure after intrathecal baclo ...
Epileptic seizures associated with intrathecal baclofen (ITB) application have been observed in patients with traumatic brain injury. A higher incid ...
Pain as an evolutionary necessi ...
The proposed title ‘‘Pain as an evolutionary necessity’’ could lead to a broad debate with implications covering many chapters of the medicine and p ...
Widespread urticaria due to int ...
We describe two multiple sclerosis patients who displayed widespread urticaria due to intramuscular interferon beta-1a (INF-b-1a). Clinicians should ...
Ischemic stroke in a young adul ...
A 37-year-old woman suffered from sudden hemiparesis due to an ischemic stroke. Physical examination revealed dysmorphic features, cognitive impairm ...
Multiple radiculopathy as the p ...
Primary leptomeningeal lymphoma is a rare syndrome characterized by lymphomatous meningeal infiltration without identification of systemic lymphoma ...
Awake surgery in low-grade glio ...
Low-grade gliomas are slow-growing tumors invading eloquent areas and white matter pathways. For many decades these tumors were considered inoperabl ...
Two cases of dementias with mot ...
We described the cases of two patients with dementia associated with motor neuron disease, the former with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and the lat ...
Microstructural brain injury in ...
Introduction After minor head injury (MHI), postconcussive symptoms commonly occur. The purpose of this study was to correlate the severity of post- ...
Assessment of baseline hemodyna ...
Introduction The value of perfusion MRI for identifying the tissue at risk has been questioned. Our objective was to assess baseline perfusion-weigh ...
Combined interventional stroke ...
Introduction Supported by results of the ECASS III study, intravenous rt-PA thrombolysis is considered a standard therapy for acute stroke within 4. ...
DTI studies in patients with Al ...
Introduction The objective of the study was to explore the impact of the background gradients on diffusion tensor (DT) magnetic resonance imaging (D ...
Intravenous flat-detector CT an ...
Introduction In the settings of stroke, a non-invasive highresolution imaging modality to visualize the arterial intracranial circulation in the int ...