187 Results Found

Aim of the study: The cavitron ultrasonic surgical aspirator (CUSA) has gained popularity in adult surgical oncology, but its application in children is limited to liver surgery and neurosurgical procedures. The complete resection of neuroblastoma wi...

The International Neuroblastoma Risk Group Staging System (INRGSS) is based on the age of patients and preoperative imaging, with attention paid to whether the primary tumor is affected by one or more of specific image-defined risk factors (IDRFs). T...

Background: Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common pediatric extracranial solid tumor and the most common cancer encountered in children younger than 12 months of age. Localized tumors have a good prognosis, but some cases undergo treatment failure an...

High-risk neuroblastoma requires multimodal treatment including systemic chemotherapy, surgical resection, radiation therapy, stem cell transplant, and immunotherapy. Surgeons play a vital role in obtaining local control of neuroblastoma and must the...

Neuroblastoma is the most common extra-cranial solid tumor in infants and young children, and accounts for approximately 8–10% of all childhood cancers. The International Neuroblastoma Staging System (The International Neuroblastoma Risk Group Stagin...

Objectives: To assess the efficacy of thoracoscopy and the outcome for children with thoracic neurogenic tumors. Methods: We performed a retrospective review of 15 European centers between 2000 and 2020 with patients who underwent thoracoscopy for a...

Using multimodal imaging, the literature proposed the following risk factors for choroidal nevus growth into melanoma: increased tumor thickness, subretinal fluid, decreased visual acuity, presence of orange pigment, ultrasound acoustic hollowness, a...

We performed a retrospective, observational study of 51 eyes in 51 treatment-naïve patients with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV), whose lesion ranged within the 6 × 6 mm scope of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). The...

Renal papillary necrosis (RPN) is characterized by coagulative necrosis of the renal medullary pyramids and papillae. Multiple conditions and toxins are associated with RPN. Several RPN risk factors, or POSTCARDS, have been identified, with most pati...

Background: Recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP) of alcoholic etiology is a major risk factor for chronic pancreatitis (CP). Early chronic pancreatitis (ECP) represents an intermediate stage where structural changes can be identified before advanced di...

Workers in high-temperature workplaces with inadequate water supply may exhibit symptoms of chronic dehydration and have increased risk of nephrolithiasis. The aim of this study was to investigate the risk of radiolucent stone formation among workers...

Limited research has empirically explored the antecedents that explain product-country image in the context of international marketing. This topic is particularly important as consumers’ concerns about sustainability and the country of origin are rel...

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of body composition on the risk of portopulmonary hypertension using computed tomography (CT) in patients with liver cirrhosis. We retrospectively included 148 patients with cirrhosis treated at our...

Despite a growing burden posed by cardiovascular disease (CVD) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, large-scale studies on the association between the characteristics of RA patients and CVD risks and studies adjusted for various confounding factors...

The present study investigated whether the risk of recurrence after curative surgery could be further stratified by combining the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria and changes in subcutaneous (SAT) and visceral (VAT) adipos...

Pathogenic variants (PVs) in BRCA1 and BRCA2 increase the lifetime risks of breast and ovarian cancer. Guidelines recommend breast screening (magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and mammogram) or risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM) and salpingo-oophorectomy...

Climate change is producing more extremes and increasing the number and magnitude of risks that impact people’s lives, so identifying and understanding local climate risks is a long but essential process for defining adaptation strategies. The availa...

(1) Background—low-dose radioiodine ablation is an accepted strategy for the treatment of low- and intermediate-risk thyroid carcinomas, although there is no international consensus. The aim of this study is to describe the clinical experience...

Background: Although the relationship between adolescents’ body image and cyberviolence has been proved, little is known about the place of body image among other psychosocial determinants. The study aimed to assess the relationship between bod...

Background: Early prediction of cerebral palsy (CP) using the General Movement Assessment (GMA) during the fidgety movements (FM) period has been recommended as standard of care in high-risk infants. The aim of this study was to determine the accurac...

Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has revolutionized the management of early upper gastrointestinal (GI) carcinomas. While technically demanding, it offers, in experienced hands, definitive local therapy for early GI neoplasia by allowing comple...

Coronary microvascular dysfunction (MVD) is a syndrome of abnormal regulation of vascular tone, particularly during increased metabolic demand. While there are several risk factors for MVD, some of which are similar to those for coronary artery disea...

Existing frailty models have enhanced research and practice; however, none of the models accounts for the perspective of older adults upon defining and operationalizing frailty. We aim to propose a mixed conceptual model that builds on the integral m...

The problem of forest fires in Yakutia is not as well studied as in other countries. Two methods of machine learning classifications were implemented to determine the risk of fire: MaxENT and random forest. The initial materials to define fire risk f...

Cardiovascular (CV) complications represent the first non-graft-related cause of death and the third overall cause of death among patients undergoing liver transplantation (LT). History of coronary artery disease is related to increased CV mortality...

Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19)-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) is a severe fungal infection complicating critically ill COVID-19 patients. Numerous retrospective and prospective studies have been performed to get a better grasp on this l...

Sarcopenic obesity (SO), which is defined as a high ratio of visceral adipose tissue to skeletal muscle, is a well-known risk factor for post-hepatectomy outcomes in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. However, few studies have evaluated the effe...

Background: Seizures are a common complication of cerebral venous thrombosis. In this study, we intended to define clinical and neuroradiological factors associated with early and late seizures and predictors for seizure recurrence. Methods: The data...

Leiomyosarcomas (LMS) are a heterogenous group of malignant mesenchymal neoplasms with smooth muscle origin and are classified as either non-uterine (NULMS) or uterine (ULMS). Metastatic pattern, prognostic factors, and ideal staging/surveillance stu...

Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a potentially severe medical problem among multiple myeloma (MM) patients, with evolving treatment regimens potentially increasing the thrombotic risk. Data on VTE incidence and risk factors in multiethnic...

Background: Variations in femoral version are increasingly recognized as contributing factors to the development of symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) and ischiofemoral impingement (IFI). Despite having implications for both hip arthropla...

We described features of hospitalized Covid-19 patients and identified predictors of clinical deterioration. We included patients consecutively admitted at Humanitas Research Hospital (Rozzano, Milan, Italy); retrospectively extracted demographic; cl...

The supply chain of the tourism industry, including air transportation, travel agencies, souvenirs, and hotel services, is almost at a breaking point, causing a rise in unemployment with huge losses during the COVID-19 pandemic period. In order to ov...

Family history for CAD (coronary artery disease) is an established cardiovascular (CV) risk factor and it is progressively acquiring importance in patients’ CV risk stratification. Numerous studies have demonstrated that individuals with a firs...

Background/Objectives: Astrocytoma IDH-mutant CNS WHO grade 4 is a malignant tumor of the central nervous system characterized by tumor necrosis, microvascular proliferation, and/or homozygous CDKN2A/B deletion. This study aims to investigate the pro...

Medical decision-making is often related to risk and uncertainty, but existing research does not offer a comprehensive approach to this matter. We discuss the necessity to study cognitive representations of risks (CRRs), which we define as the subjec...

Objective: To investigate the effects of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) using a novel YL-1 puncture needle and summarize the risk factors of recurrence in chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH). Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis in 516 hospi...

Interstitial lung abnormalities (ILAs) are incidental radiologic abnormalities on chest computed tomography (CT) examination performed on people in whom interstitial lung disease (ILD) is not suspected. Despite the fact that most of these individuals...

The evaluation of landslide specific risk, defined as the expected degree of loss due to landslides, requires the parameterization and the combination of a number of socio-economic and geological factors, which often needs the interaction of differen...

Dental trauma resulting in permanent tooth avulsion commonly affects the young population. The prognosis of replantation after avulsion depends on the natural history of inflammatory and replacement resorption. Several risk factors for type and onset...

Background: Variable imaging methods may add important information about abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) progression. The aim of this study is to assess available literature data regarding the predictive imaging factors of AAA growth. Methods: This s...

Dedicated cone-beam breast computed tomography (CBBCT) is an emerging modality and provides fully three-dimensional (3D) images of the uncompressed breast at an isotropic voxel resolution. In an effort to translate this modality to breast cancer scre...

Multiple myeloma (MM) is always preceded by an initial monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) that then develops into asymptomatic or smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM), which constitutes an intermediate clinical stage between MGUS...

Background and Objectives: Silent cerebral ischemia (SCI) is defined as a condition that can be detected by biochemical markers or cranial imaging methods but does not produce clinical symptom. This study aims both to compare the frequency of SCI in...

This study addresses the limited mechanistic understanding behind medical imaging for tumor microenvironment (TME) assessment. We developed a novel framework that analyzes tumor imaging heterogeneity index (TIHI)-correlated genes to uncover underlyin...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and sarcoidosis are two distinct clinical entities with different aetiology, epidemiology, risk factors, symptoms and chest imaging. A number of papers have reported an overlap of the two diseases and have suggeste...

Pre-operative nutrition screening is recommended to identify cancer patients at risk of malnutrition, which is associated with poor outcomes. Low muscle mass (sarcopenia) and lipid infiltration to muscle cells (myosteatosis) are similarly associated...

Recent studies have reported chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) as an independent risk factor for stroke. However, the association with stroke depending on the affected sinuses has not been explored. This study aimed to elucidate the side- and sinus-specif...

Our previous work demonstrated the epithelial-mesenchymal transition factor, Snail, is a potential marker for predicting the recurrence of localized prostate cancer (PCa). Akt activation is important for Snail stabilization and transcription in PCa....

Background: The current study aims to evaluate the occurrence of temporal lobe reactions and identify possible risk factors for patients who underwent particle therapy of the skull base. Methods: 244 patients treated for skull base chordoma (n = 144)...