Diagnosis of male posterior ure ...
Background: There are no reports regarding voiding/ retrograde urethrography with 64-row multidetector CT (64-MDCT).To compare the clinical relevanc ...
Mass lesions in chronic pancrea ...
The diagnosis of a pancreatic mass lesion in the presence of chronic pancreatitis can be extremely challenging. At the same time, a high level of ce ...
Decreased beta cell function an ...
To evaluate the role of insulin resistance and beta cell function to increasing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), 1,272 Chinese subjects (18–80 years of ...
Clipping of MCA aneurysms: how ...
Introduction Aneurysms located at the middle cerebral artery bifurcation remain a clear neurosurgical indication. We detail here the steps necessary ...
Endovascular coil embolization ...
Background Because of their fragile and thin wall, ruptured blood blister-like aneurysms (BBAs) at the anterior wall of the internal carotid artery ...
Pituitary surgery: legacies fro ...
Pituitary surgery is a recent development in neurosurgery and most of the surgical techniques concerned have been described within the last century. ...
Genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disea ...
The E200K mutation is the most frequent prion protein gene (PRNP) mutation detected worldwide that is associated with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD ...
A new phenotype of mitochondria ...
Axial myopathy is a rare neuromuscular disease that is characterized by paraspinal muscle atrophy and abnormal posture, most notably camptocormia (a ...
Application of DEXA in body co ...
Clinical and research applications of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in childhood are reviewed. Originally used for bone mineralization assessme ...
Serum cortisol and inflammatory ...
There are no data on serum cortisol of hematological patients at the onset of neutropenic fever and its possible association with the severity of in ...
Results of a lymphoblastic leuk ...
The therapeutic role of mediastinal radiotherapy and stem cell transplantation (SCT) in lymphoblastic lymphoma (LL) remains controversial. In a risk ...
Primary CNS lymphoma other than ...
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) constitutes most primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma (PCNSL), whereas T-cell, low-grade and Burkitt’ ...
Usefulness of the automatic qua ...
Objective AQCEL enables automatic reconstruction of single-photon emission computed tomogram (SPECT) without image degradation and quantitative anal ...
Is contrast material needed aft ...
Purpose Positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose is widely used for post-therapeutic surveillance of ...
Regulation of vascular guanylyl ...
In isolated cells, soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) activity is regulated by exogenous nitric oxide (NO) via downregulation of expression and posttran ...
OxLDL and macrophage survival: ...
Atherosclerotic plaques are characterized by hypoxic even anoxic areas and by high concentrations of oxidized lipoproteins. Moreover, unstable plaqu ...
A high fat diet increases mitoc ...
Elevated levels of cardiac mitochondrial uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) and decreased cardiac efficiency (hydraulic power/oxygen consumption) with abn ...
Effects of high thoracic epidur ...
High thoracic epidural anesthesia (HTEA) blocks the afferent and efferent cardiac sympathetic nerve fibers and may affect atrial electrophysiologica ...
Carbon monoxide exposure enhanc ...
Arrhythmias following cardiac stress are a key predictor of death in healthy population. Carbon monoxide (CO) is a ubiquitous pollutant promoting ox ...
Loss of heterozygosity analysis ...
Despite recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of glioblastomas, patient outcomes for these highly malignant tumors remain poor. Research in ...
MGMT promoter methylation and t ...
Choroid plexus carcinoma (CPC) is a malignant tumor with a strong tendency to spread along the cerebrospinal fluid pathway. There is no standardized ...
Hypoglossal nerve schwannoma wi ...
Intratumoral hemorrhage of hypoglossal schwannoma is very rare. A 37-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with severe headache and gait disturb ...
Are we missing the mTOR target ...
Abnormalities in the PI3K/Akt/mTOR intracellular signalling pathway have been implicated in several forms of human cancer. The central component of ...
Ep-CAM RNA expression predicts ...
Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (Ep-CAM) recently received increased attention as a prognostic factor in breast cancer.We aimed to validate the in ...
Nicotine-induced human breast c ...
Previous studies have demonstrated that the persistent exposure of human bronchial epithelial cells to nicotine (Nic) through nicotinic acetylcholin ...