Central nervous system involvement in Whipple's disease: Report of a rare pathological entity and comparative review of treatment strategies and outcomes by Moustafa A. Mansour, MD, MSc, MPhil, Reem W. Malaeb, BS, Islam E. Elnemr, MD, Mohamed Abdel-Fattah El-Salamoni, MD, Hamdi Nabawi Mostafa, MD, Zarina Ahmadi, MD

“…Neurological examination revealed oculomasticatory myorhythmia, and imaging studies showed nodular enhancement of the hypothalamus and basal ganglia, along with retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy. …”
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Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Patient with Crohn’s Disease Treated with Azathioprine and Infliximab: A Case Report and Literature Review by Kyle J. Fortinsky, Ali Alali, Khursheed Jeejeebhoy, Sandra Fischer, Morris Sherman, Scott Fung

“…Clinicians may consider early imaging in patients with Crohn’s disease presenting with concerning symptomatology or abnormal liver enzymes, especially in those being treated with azathioprine alone or in combination with infliximab. …”
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Nanocomposite of electrochemically reduced graphene oxide and gold nanourchins for electrochemical DNA detection by Mostafa Azimzadeh, Zahra Aghili, Behrooz Jannat, Saeid Jafari, Saeed Rafizadeh Tafti, Navid Nasirizadeh

“…The assembling process was confirmed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) imaging, cyclic voltammetry (CV), and the EIS method. …”
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Listen, Learn, Like! Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Involved in the Mere Exposure Effect in Music by Anders C. Green, Klaus B. Bærentsen, Hans Stødkilde-Jørgensen, Andreas Roepstorff, Peter Vuust

“…We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the neural basis of the mere exposure effect in music listening, which links previous exposure to liking. …”
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Understanding metastasis mixed-treatment responses through genomic analyses by Susana Garcia-Recio, Paola Zagami, Brooke M. Felsheim, Amy Wheless, Kerry Thomas, Renato Trimarchi, Lisa A. Carey, Charles M. Perou

“…Through genomic analysis of multiple metastases from the same patient, assayed in 6 different patients who had exhibited mixed response on imaging, we identified that higher regulatory T cells (T reg) and CDKN2A gene expression values correlate with non-response, while the KRAS gene, KRAS amplicon, and CD8T cells were associated with response in individual metastases. …”
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Two Case Reports of Varicocele Rupture during Sexual Intercourse and Review of the Literature by Chalil Arif, Konstantinos Kotoulas, Chrysostomos Georgellis, Konstantinos Frigkas, Athanasios Bantis, Emmanouil Patris

“…We are presenting two cases of varicocele rupture, presented with acute painful swelling of the left inguinal and scrotal region during sexual intercourse. Imaging studies revealed a scrotal hematoma in the first case and a spermatic cord hematoma in the second case, without signs of active bleeding. …”
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Spatially-constrained Keypoint Matching for Efficient Statistical Shape Modelling by Harkämper Lena, Großbröhmer Christoph, Himstedt Marian

“…They are commonly used in medical imaging to model and analyse the shape of anatomical structures such as organs. …”
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Angiomatous Meningioma in the Craniocervical Junction by Shunsuke Ito, Yoichi Iizuka, Masanori Aihara, Hiromi Koshi, Tokue Mieda, Eiji Takasawa, Sho Ishiwata, Yusuke Tomomatsu, Akira Honda, Kazuhiro Inomata, Hirotaka Chikuda

“…He showed slight motor weakness in his upper extremities. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mass with marked enhancement in the craniocervical junction. …”
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Double Outlet Right Ventricle: A Rare Finding in a 15‐Month‐Old Female With Failure to Thrive by Bernadette Pedun, Ivaan Pitua, Felix Bongomin, Samuel Bugeza, Rita Nassanga Luzinda

“…Physical examination showed a small, non‐syndromic infant with pallor, tachypnea, irritability, and finger clubbing. Initial imaging revealed cardiomegaly and lung infiltrates; echocardiography and computed tomography angiography confirmed additional intracardiac defects of double superior vena cavae, a hypoplastic aortic arch, hypertrophic right ventricular wall, and a patent ductus arteriosus. …”
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Congenital Bladder and Urethral Agenesis: Two Case Reports and Management by Salahaddin Delshad, Hadith Rastad, Parham Mardi

“…In both patients, magnetic resonant imaging (MRI) revealed a case of bladder and urethral agenesis with normal ureters draining into the vagina. …”
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CASE PRESENTATION:FRACTURED NEEDLE IN THE PTERYGOMANDIBULAR SPACE AFTER AN INFERIOR ALVEOLAR NERVE BLOCK by Precup Alexandru Iosif, Precup Andrada, Băciuț Mihaela Felicia, Mădălina Anca Moldovan, Iurcov Raluca Ortensia, Bumbu Bogdan Andrei

“…A fractured needle in the pterygomandibular area is considered an emergency so it is important to withdraw it. Although images like panoramic radiography (2D) and computed tomography (3D), are useful in the localization of the foreign body the removal can be very difficult. …”
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Differential Diagnosis of Amniotic Band and Intrauterine Synechiae in Second Trimester Pregnancy: Case Report by Bekir Kahveci, Yasemin Dogan, Gaye Kahveci, Muhammet Hanifi Bademkiran

“…The diagnosis of intrauterine adhesions is based upon visualization of intrauterine adhesions either directly by hysteroscopy or indirectly by other imaging studies. The floor of the intrauterine adhesions is widely and lateral of the uterine cavity and occurs from four layers while the amniotic band is a thin layer and forms fluctuations in the amniotic fluid. …”
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A dataset from the Cryptogamia-Lichenes section of the Herbarium Universitatis Taurinensis (TO) by Rosanna Piervittori, Deborah Isocrono, Enrica Matteucci, Mariagrazia Morando, Luca Dessì, Laura Guglielmone, Heimo Rainer, Stefano Martellos, Andrea Moro, Pier Luigi Nimis, Matteo Conti, Sergio Enrico Favero-Longo

“…With regard to the historical collection, only a set of 59 recently revised specimens is available on the mentioned platforms, but most of the materials are accessible as digital images on the website of the project HERB-TO-CHANGE.…”
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Inraoperative and Histological Visualization of Disrupted Vulnerable Plaques following Diagnostic Angiography of Moderate Carotid Stenosis by Tatsushi Mutoh, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Akifumi Suzuki, Nobuyuki Yasui

“…He developed transient left hand numbness and weakness immediately after the procedure. Intraoperative imaging during carotid endarterectomy revealed a fragile plaque with sharp surface laceration and intraplaque hemorrhage at the bifurcation. …”
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Optic Disk Pit with Sudden Central Visual Field Scotoma by Nikol Panou, Demetrios G. Vavvas

“…Neuroophthalmologic, systematic, and laboratory evaluation and full imaging processes were performed. Results. Fundoscopy and color photography demonstrated an optic disk pit inferotemporally. …”
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The use of bacterial cellulose from kombucha to produce curcumin loaded Pickering emulsion with improved stability and antioxidant properties by Zhiyu Li, Wenxiu Hu, Jiajia Dong, Fidelis Azi, Xiao Xu, Chuanhai Tu, Sijie Tang, Mingsheng Dong

“…The fluorescence microscope and scanning electron microscopy images showed that the curcumin-loaded Pickering emulsion formed circular droplets with good encapsulation. …”
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Laser interaction with undercritical foams of different spatial structures by J. Limpouch, V. Tikhonchuk, O. Renner, Sh. Agarwal, T. Burian, J. Červenka, J. Dostál, R. Dudžák, D. Ettel, A. Gintrand, L. Hudec, L. Juha, O. Klimo, M. Krupka, M. Krus, T. Lastovicka, R. Liska, W. Nazarov, S. K. Singh, M. Šilhavík, S. Weber

“…The spatial–temporal evolution of X-ray emission is observed using an X-ray streak camera, electron and ion temperatures are measured by X-ray spectroscopy, and hot-electron production is characterized by monochromatic X-ray imaging. Transmission of a femtosecond laser probe pulse through foams is observed in the near and far fields. …”
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Anti-LGI1 antibody autoimmune encephalitis. Clinical case presentation and literature review by A. Stašaitytė, T. Vanagas, V. Danielius, G. Jurkevičienė, R. Balnytė

“…After identifying memory problems, focal impaired awareness seizures, cognitive dysfunction, and typical brain magnetic resonance imaging changes, the diagnosis of limbic encephalitis was suspected. …”
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Fabrication of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) Using Mg-Doped ZnO as Photoanode and Extract of Rose Myrtle (Rhodomyrtus tomentosa) as Natural Dye by Nurdin Siregar, Motlan, Jonny Haratua Panggabean, Makmur Sirait, Juniastel Rajagukguk, Noto Susanto Gultom, Fedlu Kedir Sabir

“…XRD confirm that all sample has the wurtzite hexagonal with crystallite size of 25 nm. The SEM images reveal particles on the surface of the Mg-doped ZnO thin film of irregular shapes. …”
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Talbot interference of whispering gallery modes by Matias Eriksson, Benjamin A. Stickler, Robert Fickler

“…The Talbot self-imaging phenomenon is a fundamental interference effect that is natural to all waves with a periodic structure. …”
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