Influence of timing and oral an ...
Background Patients undergoing surgical procedures are usually asked to discontinue any anticoagulant/antiplatelet therapy and delay surgery for at ...
Efficacy and safety of non-oper ...
Background The liver is the most frequently affected organ during blunt abdominal trauma. Blunt liver trauma management has changed in the last two ...
Preoperative importance of impr ...
Objective We aimed to correlate the preoperative importance of improvement and postoperative satisfaction in patients undergoing total hip replaceme ...
Modified surgery for acute thor ...
Objectives The treatment of acute thoracolumbar fractures is a demanding and fine surgical challenge. Conventional procedures are not always satisfa ...
Anterior cervical plating for a ...
Introduction Teardrop fractures of the axis are infrequently seen within our spinal unit. And are attributed to a hyperextension type mechanism of i ...
Ludloff approach for osteochond ...
Ludloff's approach was described for open reduction of congenital dislocation of the hip. We describe the preoperative planning and the surgical pro ...
Vascular characterisation of tr ...
Objectives Triple-negative (ER-/PR-/HER2-) breast carcinomas (TNBC) are aggressive tumours with underexplored imaging features. This study investiga ...
Computer-aided detection in bre ...
Objectives To evaluate the additional value of computeraided detection (CAD) in breast MRI by assessing radiologists’ accuracy in discriminating ben ...
Lymph node assessment by diffus ...
The use of node size alone to determine the presence of metastatic lymphadenopathy has been shown to be a poor discriminator in pelvic oncological i ...
Detection and quantification of ...
Objectives To evaluate reliability of ultrasound for detection and quantification of glenohumeral joint effusion. Methods With institutional review ...
The diffusion-weighted imaging ...
Objective To determine the total Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC), the pure Diffusion coefficient (D) and the perfusion fraction (f) in advanced ...
Multidetector-CT angiography in ...
Objective To assess if pulmonary CT angiography (CTA) can predict outcome in patients with pulmonary embolism (PE). Methods Retrospective analysis o ...
Renal artery stenosis: comparat ...
Objectives To evaluate steady-state free precession (SSFP) non-contrast-enhanced MR angiography (Unenhanced-MRA) versus conventional contrast-enhanc ...
64-section multidetector CT of ...
Objectives To prospectively investigate the effect of varying the injection flow rates of a saline chaser on vascular and parenchymal contrast enhan ...
Assessment of relevant hepatic ...
Objective To test the feasibility of fat-selective GRE imaging using a spectral-spatial excitation technique for determination of intrahepatic lipid ...
Cerebral blood volume imaging b ...
Objective We tested the hypothesis that Flat Detector computed tomography (FD-CT) with intravenous contrast medium would allow the calculation of wh ...
Value of the BI-RADS classifica ...
Aim To assess whether the BI-RADS classification in MRMammography (MRM) can distinguish between benign and malignant lesions. Material and method 2 ...
Multidetector CT imaging of mec ...
Objectives Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) can detect the cause of prosthetic heart valve (PHV) dysfunction but is hampered by valve-induce ...
A method of adjusting SUV for i ...
Objective A time normalisation method of tumour SUVs in 18F-FDG PET imaging is proposed that has been verified in lung cancer patients. Methods A t ...
The influence of age, anthropom ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of age, anthropometrics and cervical range of motion upon synovial fold volume. Ten healthy ...
Acupuncture-related techniques ...
Drug addiction is a chronic brain disorder characterized by withdrawal symptoms that occur during drug abstinence and a high tendency of relapse. Com ...
Arsenic in the treatment of new ...
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a subtype of acute myeloid leukemia. In past decades, intensive studies on the biology and treatment of this ...
Efficacy of NiTi Hand CACTM 30 ...
Background Although a novel technique for the performance of intestinal sutureless anastomosis using a compression device has recently been investig ...
How useful is preoperative imag ...
Background Surgery is the fundamental curative option for gastric cancer patients. Imaging scans are routinely prescribed in an attempt to stage the ...
Optimal treatment for coronary ...
There are three strategies for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD): medical therapy, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), and percutaneous ...