Characteristics of Small Bowel ...
Background A few reports suggest that the emergence of double balloon endoscopy (DBE) has likely changed the clinical picture of small bowel tumors ...
Infection with Specific Helicob ...
Background The cag pathogenicity island (cag-PAI) is one of the major virulence factors of Helicobacter pylori, showing considerable geographic vari ...
Narrow Band Imaging to Detect R ...
Background There is little data on the prevalence of residual neoplastic tissue or the rate of endoscopically detected recurrence in patients with p ...
Role of a Short-Term Stent-Tria ...
In portal hypertensive biliopathy (PHB) secondary to portal thrombosis, multiple factors can lead to symptoms and alteration of liver tests. The com ...
Narrow-Banding Images and Struc ...
Background Magnifying colonoscopy with NBI has been shown to be useful for the differential diagnosis of tumors. However, the relationship between f ...
Antiglycan Antibodies in Greek ...
Background Antiglycan antibodies have recently been reported to be associated with Crohn’s disease (CD). These antibodies include anti-Saccharomyces ...
Prediction of Sustained Virolog ...
Background Sustained virological response (SVR) rates in patients with hepatitis C are heterogeneous and are influenced by a wide range of host and ...
Small Intestinal Bacterial Over ...
Background Experimental and clinical studies suggest an association between small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and nonalcoholic steatohepa ...
Gender Bias in Gastroparesis: I ...
Accumulating evidence suggests that genderrelated differences are prominent in gastric motility functions in both health and disease. Women are more ...
Focal Fat Masquerading as Malig ...
Background and Aims Liver failure from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an increasing indication for liver transplant and recurrence of ...
Quality of Life in Oncological ...
Quality of life is an important outcome measurement in objectifying the current health status or therapy effects in patients with oropharyngeal dysp ...
The Role of the Epiglottis in t ...
Repeatable epiglottic movement patterns were recorded during a videofluoroscopic swallow evaluation of 95 patients who had undergone a total or part ...
Well-Differentiated Thyroid Car ...
Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) are the most common differentiated thyroid cancers. Previous studies report ...
BMI, waist circumference, and c ...
Objective To examine whether the association between waist circumference (WC) and clustering of cardiovascular risk factors varies with obesity (BMI ...
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 ...
Blood lead levels of contempora ...
Objectives Lead concentrations in whole blood (BPb) of Japanese children were measured to obtain insight into the sources of variation and to estima ...
The association between idiopat ...
Objectives Idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI) is a disorder characterized by non-specific symptoms attributed to common airborne chemicals. ...
Is surgery always necessary in ...
Two randomized trials showed that survival was similar after definitive chemoradiation (CRT) or after CRT and surgery in locally advanced esophageal ...
A case of small-cell esophageal ...
A 54-year-old male undergoing hemodialysis was admitted to our hospital because of difficulty in swallowing. Esophagography and esophageal endoscopy ...
Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy ...
The association between a pre-operative recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) palsy and thyroid disease is usually suggestive of locally advanced malignan ...
Safety and patient selection of ...
Patient’s low compliance of conventional hearing aids has lead to innovation of totally implantable hearing devices such as Esteem, Envoy system. Th ...
Functional endoscopic sinus sur ...
The main objective of this study is to assess the results of functional endoscopic sinus surgery in children and to determine which factors independ ...
Prognostic indicators of hearin ...
The objectives of this study are (1) to evaluate hearing change after complete cholesteatoma resection in the setting of a labyrinthine Wstula, (2) ...
MMP-2 expression in 102 patient ...
In order to evaluate the potential of matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP-2) as a prognostic factor for glottic laryngeal cancer. One hundred and two su ...
The palatal island mucoperioste ...
Reconstruction of intraoral mucosal defects following tumor ablative surgery can be a challenging problem. The objective of this study was to evalua ...