Could the serial determination ...
Objectives A single value of tumor marker elevation is not used for the diagnosis of breast cancer (BC) relapse, whereas the serial measurements whi ...
Hypermethylation of the progest ...
Most breast carcinomas that are estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) positive respond initially to an endocrine therapy, but over t ...
Association of diagnostic work- ...
The objective of this study is to determine whether the likelihood of returning for routine breast cancer screening differed for false-positive case ...
Predictive value of BI-RADS cla ...
In this study, we assessed the positive-predictive value (PPV) of mammography and/or ultrasonography in women age 50 based on recommendations for bi ...
Cerebrospinal Fluid Enhancement ...
Purpose A rare complication of carotid artery stenting (CAS), prolonged reversible neurological symptoms with delayed cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) spac ...
Polycomb genes expression as a ...
Introduction Medulloblastoma is the most frequent type of embryonal tumor in the pediatric population, accounting for 20–25% of all brain tumors in ...
Methylprednisolone pulse therap ...
Background The long-term prognosis of immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is reportedly poor. In Japan, tonsillectomy-steroid pulse therapy has freq ...
The diffusion kinetics of a nan ...
This study investigated the diffusion kinetics of a nanofilled (Filtek Z350) and a midifill (Filtek P60) resin composite immersed in distilled water ...
Is intravascular ultrasound ben ...
Background Coronary bifurcations remain a challenging lesion subset for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). It is unclear whether intravascula ...
Autoantibodies for gastrointest ...
Background Clustering of autoimmune diseases is common and may be due to genetic background and exposition to environmental triggers. Objective The ...
Serum biochemical profile and p ...
Serum biochemical parameters and performance data were evaluated in broilers fed diets supplemented with antibiotics or essential oils from oregano, ...
Diagnosis of traumatic iliopsoa ...
Case 1 involved a 24-year-old man who complained of severe right groin pain and difficulty of walking after falling to the ground while snowboarding ...
Genetic Evaluation of Polyposis
There is substantial ongoing work in elucidating the genetics of colorectal cancer (CRC). In this article, the state of the art and clinical applica ...
Mechanisms and Potential Therap ...
Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-induced hypertensive disorder found most commonly in nulliparous women. Recent research performed in animal models of th ...
Treatment of Chronic Migraine H ...
Chronic migraine headache remains an exceedingly difficult entity to manage. Treatment of chronic migraine headache with onabotulinumtoxinA has rece ...
Loss of Matrix Metalloproteinas ...
Background and Aims Matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2), a type IV collagenase secreted by activated hepatic stellate cells (HSCs), is upregulated in ...
Genetic Analysis of Complement ...
Background The complement component 9 (C9), a major cytolytic protein in the complement system, plays an important role in the immunological process ...
Evaluation of anthropometric pa ...
Objectives We evaluated anthropometric parameters and physical fitness in elderly Japanese. Methods A total of 2,106 elderly Japanese (749 men and ...
Prognosis of patients with recu ...
No studies to date have classified recurrent facial palsy according to the House-Brackmann grade, thus limiting any comparisons between patients wit ...
Psychiatric disorders in childr ...
The prevalence of psychiatric disorders among children with unexplained chronic pain (UCP) is high in unselected populations and pain clinics, yet t ...
Implant failure of long proxima ...
Pathologic or impending pathologic fracture is an unhappy clinical manifestation of skeletal metastasis. If possible, stabilization of metastatic bo ...
The European Paediatric Life Su ...
We tested the hypothesis that application of the principles learned from the European Paediatric Life Support (EPLS) course improves child health as ...
Bone and joint infections in ad ...
Introduction and methods Ten currently available classifications were tested for their ability to describe a continuous cohort of 300 adult patients ...
Identification and quantitation ...
During our careful surveillance of unregulated drugs, we found five new compounds used as adulterants in herbal and drug-like products obtained via ...
Individual recurrence intervals ...
Background To assess the time interval to recurrent choroidal neovascular membrane (CNV) activity in eyes with neovascular age-related macular degen ...