The Incidental Finding of a Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava: Implications for Primary Care Providers—Case and Review by Loren Garrison Morgan, Jonathan Gardner, Joe Calkins

“…However, in today’s world of various easily obtainable imaging modalities, PLSVC is being discovered more and more by primary care providers during routine testing or screening for other ailments. …”
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Laryngeal Preservation in Managing Advanced Tracheal Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma by Thavakumar Subramaniam, Paul Lennon, John Kinsella, James Paul O’Neill

“…Preoperative bronchoscopy revealed a highly vascular tumor 4 cm distal to the cricoid with no gross disease extending to the carina. Imaging revealed circumferential tracheal irregularity immediately inferior to the cricoid, with no definite cricoid invasion. …”
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Chiral-magic angle of nanoimprint meta-device by Chen Mu Ku, Zhang Jing Cheng, Leung Cheuk Wai, Sun Linshan, Fan Yubin, Liang Yao, Yao Jin, Liu Xiaoyuan, Yuan Jiaqi, Xu Yuanhao, Tsai Din Ping, Pang Stella W.

“…The chirality engineering by the reported nanoimprint technology and chiral meta-devices may contribute to applications in chiral imaging, biomedical sensing, lasing, and tunable optical devices.…”
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Enhanced YOLOv8-based method for space debris detection using cross-scale feature fusion by Yang Guo, Xianlong Yin, Yao Xiao, Zhengxu Zhao, Xu Yang, Chenggang Dai

“…The study utilized a dataset comprising astronomical images captured by an open-source large-field-of-view optical telescope. …”
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Remarkable Presentation: Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma Arising from Chronic Hyperthyroidism by Habib G. Zalzal, Jeffson Chung, Jessica A. Perini

“…She had been taking methimazole for chronic hyperthyroidism due to toxic thyroid nodules, previously biopsied as benign. Upon admission, imaging showed tracheal compression, requiring a total thyroidectomy with tracheostomy for airway management. …”
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Late Recovery from Severe Streptococcus pneumoniae Comatose Meningitis with Concomitant Diffuse Subcortical Cytotoxic Edema and Cortical Hypometabolism by Philippe Hantson, Thierry Duprez

“…Repeated brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination failed to demonstrate venous thrombosis, arterial ischemic stroke, or brain abscesses but revealed diffuse but reversible cortical cytotoxic edema at diffusion-weighted (DW) sequences. …”
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Enhanced classification of medicinal plants using deep learning and optimized CNN architectures by Hicham Bouakkaz, Mustapha Bouakkaz, Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache, Sahraoui Dhelim

“…To address this issue, a deep learning-based framework is proposed in the research for classifying images related to medicinal plants using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). …”
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fMRI Evidence of Magnitude Manipulation during Numerical Order Processing in Congenitally Deaf Signers by Josefine Andin, Peter Fransson, Jerker Rönnberg, Mary Rudner

“…In the present study, adult deaf signers and hearing nonsigners performed a digit and letter order tasks, during functional magnetic resonance imaging. We found the neuronal networks recruited in the two tasks to be generally similar across groups, with significant activation in the dorsal visual stream for the letter order task, suggesting letter identification and position encoding. …”
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Comprehensive Insights into De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis: From Etiology to Rehabilitation by Piotr Charzewski, Agnieszka Starzyk

“…Emerging rehabilitative approaches, including graded tendon-loading protocols, and innovations in imaging and therapy, highlight a shift toward more precise and patient-centered care. …”
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ST Elevation Infarction after Heart Transplantation Induced by Coronary Spasms and Mural Thrombus Detected by Optical Coherence Tomography by Tor Skibsted Clemmensen, Niels Ramsing Holm, Hans Eiskjær, Steen Hvitfeldt Poulsen, Michael Maeng, Christian Juhl Terkelsen, Evald Høj Christiansen

“…Furthermore, the case underlines the clinical value of OCT as a novel method for high-resolution vessel imaging in heart-transplanted (HTx) patients with coronary spasms and suspected coronary artery disease. …”
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Cone-Beam Computed Tomographic Assessment of Mandibular Condylar Position in Patients with Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction and in Healthy Subjects by Maryam Paknahad, Shoaleh Shahidi, Shiva Iranpour, Sabah Mirhadi, Majid Paknahad

“…The condylar position was assessed on the CBCT images. The data were analyzed using Pearson chi-square test. …”
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Enhancing DNA Vaccine Delivery Through Stearyl-Modified Cell-Penetrating Peptides: Improved Antigen Expression and Immune Response In Vitro and In Vivo by Sheng Jiang, Cheng Zu, Bin Wang, Yiwei Zhong

“…Methods and Results: In vitro studies showed that S-Cr9T significantly improved plasmid stability and transfection efficiency, with optimal performance at an N/P ratio of 0.25. High-content imaging revealed that the S-Cr9T–plasmid complex stably adhered to the cell membrane, leading to enhanced plasmid uptake and transfection. …”
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Integration of clinical, pathological, radiological, and transcriptomic data improves prediction for first-line immunotherapy outcome in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer by Nicolas Captier, Marvin Lerousseau, Fanny Orlhac, Narinée Hovhannisyan-Baghdasarian, Marie Luporsi, Erwin Woff, Sarah Lagha, Paulette Salamoun Feghali, Christine Lonjou, Clément Beaulaton, Andrei Zinovyev, Hélène Salmon, Thomas Walter, Irène Buvat, Nicolas Girard, Emmanuel Barillot

“…We analyze baseline multimodal data from a cohort of 317 metastatic NSCLC patients treated with first-line immunotherapy, including positron emission tomography images, digitized pathological slides, bulk transcriptomic profiles, and clinical information. …”
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Oral Health Characteristics and Dental Rehabilitation of Children with Global Developmental Delay by Saurabh Kumar, Deepika Pai, Runki Saran

“…Investigations for GDD include diagnostic laboratory tests, brain imaging, and other evidence-based evaluations. GDD affects multiple developmental domains that not only have direct bearing on maintenance of oral health, but also require additional behavior management techniques to deliver optimal dental care. …”
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Angle-controlled strong and weak coupling in photon molecules by Feng Xiao, Xiaoqiuyan Zhang, Yueying Wang, Xingxing Xu, Tianyu Zhang, Min Hu

“…Tunable Terahertz (THz) meta materials can be used to design sensors, optical modulators, etc., to improve imaging sensitivity and resolution. In this work, we use the scattering-type scanning near-field microscopy (s-SNOM) to demonstrate an angle-controlled coupling strength in a tunable photon molecules system. …”
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Plant-Extract-Mediated Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles by Yunhui Bao, Jian He, Ke Song, Jie Guo, Xianwu Zhou, Shima Liu

“…Metal nanoparticles (MNPs) have been widely used in several fields including catalysis, bioengineering, photoelectricity, antibacterial, anticancer, and medical imaging due to their unique physical and chemical properties. …”
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Infection-Induced Elevated Plasma Perampanel in a Patient with Hemimegalencephaly by Yuya Kinoshita, Hiroe Ueno, Hirofumi Kurata, Chizuru Ikeda, Erika Hori, Takumi Okada, Tomoyuki Shimazu, Isao Fujii, Makoto Matsukura, Hoseki Imamura

“…Further examinations (blood, cerebrospinal fluid, brain magnetic resonance images, and electroencephalogram) revealed no physical cause for impaired consciousness. …”
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Pelvic Desmoid Tumor: A Rare Case with Difficult Diagnosis and Treatment by Mariana Ormonde, Despoina Argyropoulou, Cândida Lourenço, João Bastos, Ana Quintas

“…Although deep endometriosis was suspected, malignancy features could not be excluded by imaging studies. The patient underwent an exploratory laparotomy for definite diagnosis and treatment, which led to right nephrectomy, hysterectomy, and right oophorectomy because of deep infiltration and difficult dissection. …”
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Giant Adrenal Myelolipoma in a Patient without Endocrine Disorder: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature by Yoshifumi Nakayama, Nobutaka Matayoshi, Masaki Akiyama, Yusuke Sawatsubashi, Jun Nagata, Masanori Hisaoka, Keiji Hirata

“…Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen revealed an uneven tumor surrounding the stomach, spleen, pancreas, and left kidney, which was 20 × 18 × 10 cm in size. …”
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Rotator Interval Lesion and Damaged Subscapularis Tendon Repair in a High School Baseball Player by Tomoyuki Muto, Hiroki Ninomiya, Hiroaki Inui, Masahiko Komai, Katsuya Nobuhara

“…High signal intensity in the rotator interval (RI) area (ball sign), injured subscapularis tendon, and damage to both the superior and middle glenohumeral ligaments were identified using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Repair of the RI lesion and partially damaged subscapularis tendon was performed in this pitcher. …”
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