Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Literature Review by Yasunori Minami, Masatoshi Kudo

“…Moreover, adjuvant therapy, such as molecular targeted therapies following curative therapy, is expected to further improve survival after RFA.…”
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Idiopathic Myointimal Hyperplasia of Mesenteric Veins of the Ileum and Colon in a Patient with Crohn’s Disease: A Case Report and Brief Review of the Literature by Sharon J. Song, Stuti G. Shroff

“…Surgical resection of the diseased bowel segment reveals the true etiology of the pathology and is curative. We describe a case of a 59-year-old man with a long-standing history of Crohn’s disease refractory to medical therapy and status after multiple small bowel resections. …”
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The Potential Role of Liver Transplantation as a Treatment Option in Colorectal Liver Metastases by Pål-Dag Line, Morten Hagness, Svein Dueland

“…Liver resection is the only potentially curative treatment option in patients with liver metastases from colorectal cancer, but only about 20% of the patients are resectable. …”
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Variations of Gastrocolic Trunk of Henle and Its Significance in Gastrocolic Surgery by Yuan Gao, Yun Lu

“…Blood vessels around the gastrointestinal tract, as anatomical landmarks for tumor resection and lymph node dissection, play a key role in the successful surgery and curative treatment of gastrointestinal tumors. In the isolation of subpyloric area or hepatic flexure of the colon for gastrectomy or right hemicolectomy, lymph node dissection and ligation are often performed at the head of the pancreas and superior mesenteric vein, during which even a minor inadvertent error may lead to unwanted bleeding. …”
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Update on Peripheral Arterial Vasodilation, Ascites and Hepatorenal Syndrome in Cirrhosis by Mladen Knotek, Boris Rogachev, Robert W Schrier

“…Orthotopic liver transplantation has remained the only curative treatment for patients with advanced liver disease; other modalities such as transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt or vasopressin analogues may serve as a bridge to transplantation. …”
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Endoscopic View of the Aorta Through the Oesophagus: An Unusual Complication Post Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair by Kushedison Yunus, Hasib Ahmadzai, Eleanor Noreen Dunlop, Andrew Thomson

“…However, oesophageal stent placement is not curative in cases of significant oesophageal perforation as it does not lead to lead to closure of a large defect.…”
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Effect of Electroacupuncture on Knee Osteoarthritis: a Systematic Review by Jie LIN, Changlong FU, Li LI, Mingxia WU

“…However, larger-scale well-designed trials are needed to confirm the curative effect of EA.…”
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Pathology of single dose cadmium toxicity and investigations of protective effect of simultaneous chlorpromazine administrations in rats by Tuna Erdem, Fatih Hatipoğlu

“…<p> <b>Conclusion:</b> Chlorpromazine injected simultaneously with cadmium had neither protective nor curative effects against cadmium toxicity. It was thought that studies concerning prevention or treatment of cadmium toxication should be planned for longer time periods to obtain better outcomes.…”
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A review of university chatbots for student support: FAQs and beyond by Kevin Peyton, Saritha Unnikrishnan, Brian Mulligan

“…Two of the main findings of the review are that datasets associated with closed domains are still difficult to obtain and curate, and that universities unlike other sectors, have not yet realised the potential for chatbot implementation. …”
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Clinical Observation on Xingnao Kaiqiao Acupuncture Combined with Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Post-stroke Speech Dysfunction by Zhaojun DAN, Haifeng LI, Xiaokuo HE, Junhua WANG, Zhikang CHEN

“…The Aphasia Battery in Chinese (ABC) method and the Boston diagnostic aphasia examination (BDAE) were used to assess aphasia degree and clinical curative effect.Results:The ABC and BDAE scores of two groups after treatment were significantly improved compared with those before treatment (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05, <italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01). …”
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CODE-ACCORD: A Corpus of building regulatory data for rule generation towards automatic compliance checking by Hansi Hettiarachchi, Amna Dridi, Mohamed Medhat Gaber, Pouyan Parsafard, Nicoleta Bocaneala, Katja Breitenfelder, Gonçal Costa, Maria Hedblom, Mihaela Juganaru-Mathieu, Thamer Mecharnia, Sumee Park, He Tan, Abdel-Rahman H. Tawil, Edlira Vakaj

“…Each sentence was manually annotated with entities and relations by a team of 12 annotators to facilitate machine-readable rule generation, followed by careful curation to ensure accuracy. The final dataset comprises 4,297 entities and 4,329 relations across various categories, serving as a robust ground truth. …”
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A Real-World Study of Prognosis of N0M0 Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Hepatic Resection Based on SEER Database by Guangxi Zhu, Wensheng Wang, Qin Liu, Dongfeng Chen, Liangzhi Wen

“…To develop and validate a simple-to-use nomogram for prediction of 3-/5-year survival in patients with N0M0 hepatocellular carcinoma after curative liver resection. Patients and Methods. Patients diagnosed HCC with hepatic resection in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database were included to identify prognostic factors of overall survival. …”
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Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics in Cholangiocarcinoma: A Comprehensive Review by Marta Zerunian, Tiziano Polidori, Federica Palmeri, Stefano Nardacci, Antonella Del Gaudio, Benedetta Masci, Giuseppe Tremamunno, Michela Polici, Domenico De Santis, Francesco Pucciarelli, Andrea Laghi, Damiano Caruso

“…CCA still has an extremely high unfavorable prognosis, regardless of type and location, and complete surgical resection remains the only curative therapeutic option; however, due to the underhanded onset and rapid progression of CCA, most patients present with advanced stages at first diagnosis, with only 30 to 60% of CCA patients eligible for surgery. …”
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Current and Future Perspectives of PD-1/PDL-1 Blockade in Cancer Immunotherapy by Rangarirai Makuku, Neda Khalili, Sepideh Razi, Mahsa Keshavarz-Fathi, Nima Rezaei

“…However, despite promising results, a favorable response is observed only in a fraction of patients, and there is still lack of a single therapy modality with curative ability. In this paper, we review the current and future perspectives of PD-1/L1 blockade in cancer immunotherapy, with a particular focus on predictive biomarkers of response to therapy. …”
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Transportation considerations in underserved patient populations receiving multidisciplinary head and neck cancer care by Luke Stanisce, Donald H Solomon, Liam O'Neill, Nadir Ahmad, Brian Swendseid, Gregory J Kubicek, Yekaterina Koshkareva

“…BackgroundUnderinsured patients with advanced head and neck cancer experience worse outcomes compared to their well-insured peers.MethodsRetrospective logistic regression analysis testing associations between demographic, geospatial, transportation, disease, and treatment factors in 50 government insured or uninsured patients receiving curative-intent, multidisciplinary cancer care.ResultsForty percent of patients missed at least one treatment or surveillance appointment within the first year. …”
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Collaborative Playlists around the World: A Cross-Cultural User Study by So Yeon Park, Jin Ha Lee, Audrey Laplante, Xiao Hu, Blair Kaneshiro

“…Collaborative playlists (CPs) enable users of streaming platforms to share and discover music through co-curation. Recent studies involving predominantly North American samples have found that CPs are created for a variety of contexts, help users organize and access music, facilitate music discovery, and support social connections. …”
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Solitary Adrenal Metastasis from Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by D. Dellaportas, P. Lykoudis, G. Gkiokas, G. Polymeneas, A. Kondi-Pafiti, D. Voros

“…When no other evidence of metastatic disease in cancer patients exists, several authors advocate adrenalectomy with curative intent. Isolated cases of long-term survival after resection of solitary adrenal metastasis from esophageal adenocarcinoma, like in our case, have been reported only as case reports. …”
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hpvPDB: An Online Proteome Reserve for Human Papillomavirus by Satish Kumar, Lingaraja Jena, Sangeeta Daf, Kanchan Mohod, Peyush Goyal, Ashok K. Varma

“…Simultaneous easy expandability and retrieval of the strain-specific data, with a provision for sequence analysis and exploration potential of predicted structures, and easy access for curation and annotation through a range of search options at one platform are a few of its important features. …”
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Intravenous leiomyomatosis presenting as Budd–Chiari syndrome: a case report and literature review by Jingwen Gan, Xiao Ma, Jiang Shao, Jinhui Wang, Dongyan Cao

“…Complete tumor resection is the only curative treatment and should be performed as soon as possible.…”
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Case report: Advanced age at transplantation and pre-emptive treatment with dupilumab in DOCK8 deficiency by Sophia Trombello, Sophia Trombello, Andrea Jarisch, Andre Willasch, Eva Rettinger, Julia Fekadu-Siebald, Dirk Holzinger, Dirk Holzinger, Roland Adelmann, Peter Bader, Shahrzad Bakhtiar

“…Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) is indicated as the only curative treatment option. We present a patient with advanced disease undergoing alloHSCT at the age of 11 years after individualized pre-treatment using dupilumab and rituximab resulting in a decrease in IgE levels and clinical improvement of the skin condition. …”
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